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Team:Lyon-INSA/team
From 2012.igem.org
Our Team
Students
Anne is a third-year student in Biochemistry and Biotechnologies at INSA Lyon. She takes part in the IGEM competition for the first time. This project is a good way for her to improve her organization, ingenuity and dynamism which will be very useful for her future. Outside of school, she enjoys cooking, playing handball and mainly travelling as soon as possible! So she counts on the talent of her team to discover Amsterdam and of course Boston!
Alex (a.k.a. Hairix) is a third year biochemist at INSA Lyon. He’s from Chile, specifically from the northern limit of Western Patagonia.
He got into the iGEM project because he thinks that it’s a unique experience and an excellent opportunity to learn more about bacterial manipulation and synthetic biology.
Apart from microbiology, he likes reading, playing rugby, bicycle touring, and everything that involves nature and outdoor activities. Within him you will find a knight-errant.
Ioana is a first year Biochemistry student. She decided to join the Lyon team because she believes that the iGEM competition is a challenging experience that will put her to the test. Apart synthetic biology, she likes dancing, stargazing and reading while listening to music (the older, the better).
Also known as squirrelix because she used to climb up on trees and hide in narrow cupboards to make jokes to her friends. She is a first year bioengineer. She joins the IGEM team after a first experience in molecular biology to improve her knowledge and discover the synthetic biology approach. Outside of IGEM she is interested in rock dance, cooking, traveling, and above all that in literature.
Marion, also known as Rasberrix Olympix has a bachelor in Sciences and is studying Biochemistry and Biolotechnology. This is her first participation in the iGEM competition. She loves new challenges and iGEM is an amazing opportunity to manage together her passion for biology and to build a project: a scientific adventure. She loves sports and making cookies for her lovely team !
Marion is an undergraduate student in biochemistry and biotechnologies at INSA Lyon. This is her first participation in an IGEM team. She considers this as an opportunity not only to acquire specific qualifications very useful for the future, but also to participate in the construction of an attractive project from scratch.
Besides her interest in biosciences, she is into sports like basket-ball or volley-ball, reading and cinema. She hopes her blondness not to be an obstacle to the realization of this project.
This year, I’m back for another iGEM competition. I’m still at INSA Lyon, 4th year biochemistry and biotechnology, and still interested in how we can regulate parts to make them work together. However this time I’m rather advising on the project with the intent to improve our weak points (who said modelling ?), and making sure the newcomers don’t make (too many) mistakes. Otherwise I play video games. A lot. Too much...
This is my second participation in the iGEM competition with the INSA Lyon team. In 4th year in Bioinformatics and Modeling, I’m helping this year the team in the modeling part from Scotland, where I am in academic exchange.
iGEM rocks so badly, when you do it once, you just wanna do it again :)
But this year, I'm keeping a low profile, just helping out the newbies to settle in and feel comfy in the lab. I'm still enjoying working around bacteria, apart from B. subtilis producing lysostaphin, because it smells so badly you just wanna die when you happen to be working in the same room!
I also like playing volleyball, cooking, baking and above all traveling and meeting new people ^^ See y'all at the Jamboree!
When you participate in iGEM once, you just want to take part in this great adventure again !
In 4th year of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, I’m still enjoying microbiology, modifying bacteria and creating new plasmids! I’m this time on the advisor side... Helping the new team members searching for sponsors and guiding them for experiments in the lab.
In my free time, I like dancing, playing the piano and traveling !
Bastien is a third-year student in Biochemistry and Biotechnology at INSA Lyon and is taking part in iGEM for the first time. He joins the iGEM team to have a first sight of what genetic and bacterial manipulation is and to step into something different from studies. He likes sports, skiing and computer graphics and hopes to make it to Boston.
Patricia is an undergraduate student in Biochemistry and Biotechnology at INSA de Lyon. This year she participates for the first time in iGEM. She is very confident that INSA de Lyon team is going to win because the team's members worked very hard on the project and they all are skillful. She is passionate by biosciences. Outside the school she likes to watch movies and to travel whenever she has time.
Rémi is also known as Clumsix for often being … clumsy. Hell, he is a guy who managed to cut his finger trying to open a bottle of beer and for the record, he was actually using a bottle-opener. His clumsiness is even contagious : Gaël and Yoann also cut their finger during the summer. Anyway, he is also a first year bioengineer student who loves music (especially hard rock !), good food (though he is skinny and does absolutely not know why) and travels. He may be a bit of a nerd too as he is a video games fanatic.
Also known as stoatix it's her first participation in the INSA-Lyon team. In her previous studies, she worked on two projects about bioremediation and production of vanillin using biotechnology. So being part of the iGEM team is really important to continue learning how to manage bacteria and working in a student team. She is fond of dance, photography and art in general. She lives in a town where the international short film festival takes place : Clermont-Ferrand and one of her favorite is “la révolution des crabes”
Xavier is a second-year student in computer sciences at the INSA of Lyon.
He comes from Clermont-ferrand, the city where Michelin was created, which is'nt far away from Lyon.
He is fond of music (he plays guitar and clarinet), and also of computers : this year, he joined the Lyon-INSA team to help them improving their wiki, and make it as great as possible.
Advisors
This year, Asterix and his friends have travelled until Buenos Aires in Argentina... They meet some strange people living riding horses, drinking mate, eating very good meat and raising cows in the infinite pampa! I’m one of this gauchos! I‘m currently working in Buenos Aires for 18 months as an Engineer in biotechnology in Sanofi Pasteur. As it is not so easy to assist meeting and perform some experiments, the best for me was to be an advisor! I try to help out my Gallic friends when some extra work is needed and give my best as advisor, sharing my experiences of the iGEM competition with them! El hombre de la pampa can’t wait to see the Lyon Biosciences Team rockin’ Amsterdam and Boston with our very powerfull bacteria!
Romain Briandet leads the biofilm group at the INRA Micalis Institute. He has focused its research on microbial biofilms present in the food chain with special emphasis on their role in the persistence of pathogens. One of its main scientific line of interest is to identify the link between the 3D spatial organisation of biofilms and the survival mechanisms of cells in face to the exposition of antimicrobials. Recently, his team reported that a tiny proportion of certain Bacillus species can tunnel through biofilms, creating pores that allow molecules to flow in. They are now evaluating the industrial benefit to pretreat target biofilms with swimming bacilli coktails to increase their efficacy and reduced their ecological impact.
Instructors
My teaching activities in the Microbial Genetics mainly take place within the Biosciences department at INSA Lyon, but also at the Ecole Normale Supérieur de Lyon and at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
My research work is based on the understanding of genetic mecanisms involved in the formation of biofilms and the contamination of materials. Being the Communications officer for the Biosciences department, my participation in iGEM 2012 is part of a strategy to promote and share knowledge in the field of research in genetic engineering and more generally in Biological Sciences.
After a Master of Advanced Studies in Biochemistry and a PhD in Chemistry and Science and Techniques of waste, now I teach Chemistry classes and also a class dealing with radioactive waste management in the Energy Engineering and Environment department.
My research work at the Laboratory of Civil engineering and Environmental engineering (LGCIE) is currently aimed at the study of biophysicochemical interactions of pollutants in various compounds (soils, sediments, municipal solid waste) using molecular biology tools. I am very excited to take part in the iGEM 2012 project which leads to the development of a synergy, already launched, between the Biosciences department and Environmental sciences.
As an associate professor I find that iGEM is a unique experience, a place to mix teaching and practice in a long term project relying on students’ motivation. My teaching interests are microbiology, molecular biology, protein engineering and bioinformatics.
My research topic focus on understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial adaptation to a metal-rich environment, from molecular interactions to population biology. Apart from the basic approaches, this subject offers also the opportunity to develop biological tools for the bioremediation of spoiled environment or the in situ detection of toxic compounds for instance, developments which I’m interested in. My motivation for iGEM is the same: conception and application.
Young ;) ) Associate professor at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Up to now my work is focused on the trace metal behavior in the environment and their interaction with dissolved organic matter in aquatic ecosystems.
Now my work at the LGCIE laboratory is mainly to develop a magic potion to be stronger than Asterix to study trace metals/ organic matter behavior in various waste and to give an expertise on their potential toxicity depending on the bio-physico-chemical conditions of the studied site.
As a chemist, my interest in the iGEM project is to have a working approach angle allowing the improvements of our environment thanks to our complementarity.
aka Piezophilix because I work on high-pressure adaptation in microorganisms. My research is focussed on adaptation mechanisms in microbes from the deep-biosphere, and mainly in Archaea isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems. Our aim is to identify and quantify what genetic modifications make our favorite model, ''Pyrococcus yanaosii'', require 500 times the atmospheric pressure for growth, when everybody else's favorite labrat, E. coli, cannot even growth at the same hydrostatic pressure. My teaching activities at the University of Lyon deal with petroleum reservoir microbiology and the use of biosignatures for the study of past and present environments.
Associate Professor in economics at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon
I teach the "economics of firm", "innovation economics", as well as the "economics of globalization" to engineering students.
I am affiliated with the CNRS Research Unit "Environment, City, Society" (EVS), where I pursue my research activities in theoretical and applied economics. From a theoretical viewpoint, my research work aims at developing the methodological, conceptual, as well as behavioural foundations of Institutional and Evolutionary Economics. I resort to this theoretical framework to deal with different kinds of issues in innovation economics and economic geography.
