Attributions

All along our project, we require help from different people : scientists, administrators, specialists and even citizens. We would like to warmly thank all these persons for their contribution and their support, whatever the kind of it.

Ulule : a crowdfunding website

Ulule is the first european crowdfunding website. We have posted our SubtiTree project on this site to collect funds for pay the Giant Jamboree fee. The collect was successful : we had 41 supporters and 1262€ collected. IMAGE A RAJOUTER A A FIN DE LA COLLECTE

We warmly thank all the supporters, it was very encouraging to see that people mobilize for us !

We would like to thank especially :
- Stéphanie Marty
- Damien Kanitzer
- Charlene Douard
- Jacques de Grenier
- Colas Decloitre
- Chrystelle Gaucher
- Valérie Chataigner
- Florence Rigaud
- Nicolas Perez
- Pierre Pettera
- Eric Molina
- Clémence Witzmann
- Pierre Mirassou
- Sarah Guiziou
- Nathalie Pineau
- Michel Klein
- Ngoc Thu Hang Pham
- Nathan Mirassou
- Eddy Manière
- Aurélia Gosseau

Scientists

iGEM instructors

In first, we thank our amazing instructor : Gilles Truan. He was with us from the beginning to the end and even more ! Moreover, he knows how to grill sausages better than anyone !
We warmly thank all the other instructors that helped us when we were lost with the scientific part or stressed by the lack of money... Especially, thanks to Brice Enjalbert, Florence Bordes, Kaymeuang Cam, Philippe Soucaille, Stéphane Guillouet, Isabelle Meynial-Salles and Alain Marty.
To finish, a special thank to Claude Maranges, who helped us a lot with the sponsoring parts and all the administrative problems that we encountered.

Bacillus subtilis specialists

Even if Bacillus subtilis is a gram positive model bacterium, at our lab (LISBP) there is no one working on it. It is why we asked other people to help us when we had question about B. subtilis.
Nathalie Campo, from the LMGM, helped us a lot with her advices and her kindness.
Thierry Doan, from the IMM, brilliantly answered to our questions about the integration of plasmids into B. subtilis.
Sarah Guiziou also helped us with her advices and her protocols.

Other iGEM teams

Since several parts that we wanted to use was not in the iGEM kit plates, we asked iGEM teams to send to us some parts :
Thanks to the iGEM Warsaw team, especially Radoslaw Stachowiak, for sending us the biobricks BBa_K780000, BBa_K780001, BBa_K780002 and BBa_K780003.
Thanks to the iGEM Utah State team, especially Charles Miller, for sending us the biobrick BBa_K1162001.
Thanks to the iGEM Munich team, especially Jara Radek, for sending us the biobrick BBa_K823021, BBa_K823022 and BBa_K823023

Lab support

Thanks to Sylvie Cancel and Yves Dutruy, lab technicians, for helping us when we did not know where to find Yeast Extract or how to use the new refrigerated centrifuge.
They were with us as soon as we began the manipulations and they answer to all our stupid questions.

Communication

Press

As our project was very regional, a lot of different regional newspapers were interested into it.
After the first articles, other newspapers have begun to be interested into our work. It helped us to have a better visibility.
In this part, we would like to thank all the journalists that came to meet us :
- Hélène Ménal for her article into the newspaper 20Minutes
- Philippe Font for his article into the newspaper Metronews
- Bernard Davodeau for his article into the newspaper LaDépêche
- Delphine Russeil for her article into the newspaper La Voix du Midi
- Angélique Mangon and Jack Levé for their television report on the channel France 3 Midi-Pyrénées
- Philip for his article about the French iGEM teams on the website LaBiotech.fr
- Développement durable
- Olivier Schalama for his article into the newspaper Midi Libre
- J.-P. Ch. for his article into the newspaper L'Indépendant
- Chloé Lucas for her article on the website digiSchool

Interventions

We have participated to a lot of interventions to talk about synthetic biology and our project :
- The Exposcience in Toulouse (5th june 2014)
- The Science Festival in Toulouse (26th september 2014 - 17th october 2014)
- The Novela in Toulouse (4th and 11th october 2014)

Ethics

We thank Vincent Grégoire-Delory, responsible for the ethics platform at TWB, for coming to our lab and share his huge knowledge with us around a good bottle of vine and pizzas.

Web design

Thanks to the web designer Adrien Nicod for accepting to work with us and being patient with the remarks that each team member was saying !
We are very proud of our logo and our wiki design, very professional but also modern and nice.

Others

A special thank to Gilbert Chauvel.

Us

And finally, we thank... us. For being in the lab all the summer, for our devotion to the plane trees, for the perseverance in the bad days and for put up each other.
So thanks to all the team for this wonderful and exciting project !

iGEM Toulouse INSA Toulouse 135, Avenue de Rangueil 31400 TOULOUSE e-mail: igemtoulouse2014@gmail.com