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

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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

• We are from 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 largest research patents producer in Brazil, producing more patents than institutions like Petrobras and São Paulo University (USP).

Nowadays, the university has

Nowadays the university has 21 centers of teaching and research, in addition to hospital complexes, technical high schools and interdisciplinary centers. There are approximately 17 thousand students enrolled in the undergraduate courses and 16 thousand in the graduate programs. Education and research are closely associated, which contributes to the quality of the university, as well as the fact that almost the whole board of teachers works full time and has at least doctoral degree. The researches developed by Unicamp represent about 15% of the total in Brazilian universities. Unicamp also maintain extension activities besides health centers for the society. (See http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/en for more details)

UNICAMP Pictures, from left to right:
Main entrance of the UNICAMP Campinas campus; CBMEG picture; Biology Institute, [http://www.ib.unicamp.br/ IB ; Chemistry Institute Library building; Central Library building; Row of yellow tabebuia trees in one of Barão Geraldo's avenues.