Team:UNICAMP-EMSE Brazil/Team

Who we are

Students

Claire Villette	Danieli C. Gonçalves	Izabella Pena-Neshich	Juliana Canto Duarte

Louise Marais	Marc Emery	Marianna T. Pinho Favaro	Thibault Sabattier

Advisors

Nemailla Bonturi	Marco Antonio T. Marinho

Iolanda Albuquerque	Jeremie Pourchez	Valérie Forest

Instructors

Dr Renato Vicentini	Dr. Didier Bernache

Explicit love demonstration for iGEM

Team Pictures at Brazil

iGEM fans!	The real jedis!	Students and Advisors Nemailla and Marco	Students and Advisor Nemailla
Crazy jedis having fun!	Team at lab	Advisors Nemailla and Marco having fun!	Praying in the lab...

Attribution

The Stress Wars Project was developed by UNICAMP-EMSE students as a team, and there are no individual accomplishments. We are proud to have a binational team, to which students bring different but still complimentary previous experiences.

The host lab had no participation beyond offering the structure and equipments required, as well as the brazilian instructor. The french advisors and instructor got involved in a more bureaucratic way, since they were geographically far from the bench.

The brazilian advisors were responsible for the teaching and inspection of the experiments. Since the french students had no previous experience in molecular biology, they worked as teachers for many days. In the final week they were kindly invited to help the students in the bench, by pelleting cells or inoculating cultures.

By this, the whole work was therefore done by the students.

Where we're from

We are a bi-cultural Franco-Brazilian team composed by students and advisors from UNICAMP (State University of Campinas, Brazil) and EMSE (École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France). We describe below our universities and countries:

Brazilian part of the team - [http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/en UNICAMP]

• We are from [http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/en Unicamp] – State University of Campinas, a University was officially founded in October, 1966. The university is located in Campinas, one of the biggest cities of the São Paulo state, whose capital is the most important economic center of Brazil. It was created in response to the state demand of qualified personnel. In spite of being a young institution compared to other foreign universities, Unicamp is already recognized for its tradition in education, research and services to society. Unicamp responsible for 15% of the Brazilian scientific production and is the [http://translate.google.com.br/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=pt-BR&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.revistapesquisa.fapesp.br%2Findex.php%3Fart%3D501%26bd%3D4%26pg%3D1%26lg%3D&act=url largest research patents producer] in Brazil, producing more patents than institutions like Petrobras and São Paulo University (USP).

• Nowadays, the university has 21 centers of teaching and research, in addition to hospital complexes, technical high schools and interdisciplinary centers. As of 2011, the university had more than 36.000 students, about 17,500 undergraduate and 19,000 graduate students, as well as 2,069 faculty members. According to the [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=144 Times Higher Education 2007 World University Rankings], Unicamp is the 177th best university in the world, and the 2nd best in Latin America (after the University of São Paulo in 176th place).

(See http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/en for more details)

Main entrance of the UNICAMP Campinas campus

[http://www.cbmeg.unicamp.br/ CBMEG picture

Biology Institute, [http://www.ib.unicamp.br/ IB]

[http://www.iqm.unicamp.br/site/ Chemistry Institute] Library building

Central Library building

Row of yellow tabebuia trees in one of Barão Geraldo's avenues

UNICAMP Pictures

French part of the team - [http://www.emse.fr/en/ EMSE]

The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne (EMSE) is one of the French "Grandes Ecoles" dedicated to training highly qualified engineers and to carrying out research to meet the needs of industry. Its mission is to support the development of its students and of companies through a range of courses and fields of research, from the initial training of generalist engineers “Ingénieurs Civils des Mines", to PhD teaching; from material sciences to micro-electronics via process engineering, environmental and civil engineering, computer science and health engineering. The school's expertise is based on teaching both academic and industrial issues, always supported by innovative pedagogy. The school's pioneering spirit is seen in its exploration of new scientific themes or international partnerships which make it a unique player among the top 10 French engineering schools. The French part of our team came from the EMSE center specialized in health science and engineering: the Center for Health Engineering (CIS) - http://www.emse.fr/spip/-CIS-.html

EMSE Pictures

About Brazil & France

Here you can find videos about our countries, Brazil and France: