Team:Toulouse/Team/Fun facts

Have you ever tried to estimate the kilometers travelled by your team during this summer?

According to our calculations, one member walks approximately 4 kilometers per day all around the laboratory. This represents 5544 kilometers for the whole team during the 126 days of this epic adventure. What does that mean exactly? Simply that we could walk, cycle, swim or whatever you want until Kazakhstan, Russia, Kenya… We could even have reached the USA but we decided to stay in the lab and take the plane to go to Boston!

What do trees lining the “Canal du Midi” think about SubtiTree?

According to our homemade impartial survey, 94% of the plane trees questioned approve our project and are interested in serving as guinea pigs for our new bacterial medicine. This percentage represents 41 580 trees which are also gathered in the association called: “Happy tree friends“.

Multidisciplinary…Yes we are!

Housework in our laboratory became necessary when most of people were in vacations except us. But do you know the novelty this year in our team? Times are changing because now men are cleaning! ;-)

The unmissable event this summer: The football World Cup 2014!

From 06/12/14 to 07/13/14, the Toulouse iGEM Team was cheering on the French team. During the games of the French team, our group was juggling with wet lab and large screen projection! Despite our support, the French team didn’t win the World Cup. However, we have not said our last world yet: let’s see what will happen in 2018… ;-)

To finish this part, let’s do the official Award Ceremony of Toulouse iGEM Team 2014!

• The Geek Award: The three nominees are Laureen, Manon, Florie. And the winner is… Florie who spent the longest time in front of her laptop for the modelling part!

• The latest survivor of weekly meetings: The four nominees are Fanny, Emeline, Diane, Pierre. And the winner is… Diane who stayed up until 3am because she was skyping from South Korea!

• The worst singer award: The two nominees are Abdel, Pierre. And the winner is… Abdel who spent the whole day singing badly in the lab!

• The dancer award: The three nominees are Florie, Camille, Diane. And the winner is… Camille who did the famous Plasmid Dance!

• The “hello you” award: No nominees because the only winner is… Pierre who was saying “Hello you” each time he met someone!

• The most tired award: The three nominees are Laureen, Manon, Aurélie. And the winner is... Manon but we still don’t know why!

• The misplaced ideas award: The four nominees are Laureen, Camille, Mathieu, Pierre. And the winner is… Mathieu but you don’t want to know why!

• The perseverance award: The three nominees are Emeline, Diane, Abdel. And the winner is... Emeline who succeeded a cloning after twelve trials!

• The drawing award: The three nominees are Florie, Fanny, Manon. And the winner is… Fanny who drew our first SubtiTree logo!

• The phone-call award: The two nominees are Laureen, Pierre. And the winner is… Laureen who was our lab secretary!

• The biggest blunder in the lab award: The three nominees are Aurélie, Fanny, Abdel. And the winner is… Aurélie who poured an agarose gel without gel tray!

• And last but not least ... The Best Nervous breakdown Award goes to ... Our deep freezer ! The whole team is grateful for its hard work during a hot summer !