The Team

We are a french team from Grenoble. A well known, city for skiing and nanotechnology. We are forming a joint team between biology students from Université Grenoble 1 (Joseph Fourier University) and engineer students from Grenoble INP Phelma (Grenoble Institute of technology) that have taken some more specialized courses in biotechnology.

The team will be composed of 11 students that will work in 7 different laboratories (lab directors in parentheses):

• 2 microbiology laboratories (H. Geiselmann, I. Attree)
• 3 laboratories of biotechnology (F. Bruckert, O. Peyret, D. Peyrade)
• 1 Fundamental research laboratory (R. Calemczuk,)
• 1 bioinformatics laboratory (H. de Jong).

Students

Geoffrey Bouchage

2nd year of engineering school
Grenoble Institute of Technolgy PHELMA
Hi everyone! I'm Geoffrey and I come from Albertville, city of the Olympics 1992. I'm a big big fan of the Vancouver Canucks and I'm sorry for the MIT but I don't think Boston will win the Stanley Cup this year! I'm french so I'm totally in love with cheese, bread and wine. You can find here the best food in the whole world! Try it is to adopt it. iGEM ​​is for me a wonderful life experience that I could not miss.

Felix Ciceron

M1 de Biologie Moléculaire et cellulaire
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER
I am Felix Ciceron and I am studying molecular and cellular biology at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. I would like to work in bioremediation, bio-detection of pollution, or enzymatic engineering. All of these fields require both laboratory and project skills. I believe the iGEM competition is a tremendous way to get experience of working in a team, as it combines the spirit of competition with learning.

Marion Cristea

2nd year of Engineering School in Biotechnologies
Grenoble Institute of Technolgy PHELMA
Hey Folks! If you've started Clement's and Geoffrey's descriptions, you'll probably believe that we are obsessed by food. As French people, it's true. But we are also interested in many other things. For example, as you, I decided to launch into this Great Human Adventure because I'm convinced that Synthetic Biology is the futur and I'm looking forward to meet people from everywhere. Sport also represents a large part of my hobbies: running, cross-country biking, swimming, climbing... One last thing to fit with the French stereotype! Even if I come from the Alpes, I prefere dishes from the South like Ratatouille, Bouillabaisse or Soupe au Pistou.

Morgane DeGasperi

M1 de Biologie Moléculaire et cellulaire
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER
Spécialisée principalement en immunologie/virologie mais ayant de solide connaissances en biochimie. Le projet mené par notre équipe est une expérience profitable à tout point de vue.

Eric Durandeau

M1 de Biologie Moléculaire et cellulaire
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER
Mon ambition est de devenir chercheur, à l'interface entre l'immunologie et la microbiologie. Mes autres passions sont le badminton, le bricolage et l'informatique. iGEM est en accord avec ce qui me passionne en biologie. J’attends de cette aventure qu'elle m'apporte une grande expérience et me plonge dans le monde scientifique, en me permettant de rencontrer des personnes avec une vision des sciences différente de la mienne.

Maxime Huet

2ème année d’ école d’ingénieur en Biotechnologie
Grenoble INP PHELMA
Dear competitor, I did not have the pleasure to grow up between the beautiful mountains of the Alps. But since I'm studying in Grenoble, I'm taking the opportunity to go skiing or hiking.

What better feeling than to admire this awesome landscape and thinking to the tartiflette waiting for your return in the sweet heat of your beloved home ?

Beside this "food's poetry" I'm studying physics (many different stuff, nuclear, optic, IT, modeling, a spoonful of electronic) and biotechnology at Phelma an engineering school. I like science in general, I practice archery and I'm very fond of rollerskating.

Jean-Baptiste Lugagne

2nd year of engineer school in signal processing
Grenoble INP PHELMA
Hi all. I'm a student in information technology, therefore i became the IT guy of the group. Some would say I'm the shepherd of the group but I prefer to see myself as a glimmer of hope for my biologist teammates when their pc crashes down. But don't think I live in symbiosis with my computer, like most of Grenoblois I like outdoor activities such as trail, skiing or climbing.

Clement Masson

M1 de Biologie Moléculaire et cellulaire
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER
Hey! I'm a student in microbiology and genetic engeenering. I participate to iGEM because it's an extraordinary opportunity to work on genetic engineering, and to have a real lab' life experience. Otherwise, what can I say, I come from Albertville like Geoffrey, incidentally I think he is right about cheese,bread and wine. I don't no what can I say moreover, so I think I will leave you with an expression from Savoie : "Qui boit trop de gnole casse la bagnole!"

Feriel Melaine

Master 2 recherche Nanobiologie
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER
Consciente de la formidable opportunité que peut représenter la participation à un projet d’une telle envergure, je ne pouvais me résoudre à laisser passer cette chance. Appréhender ce domaine de pointe qu’est la biologie synthétique, à travers l’expérience iGEM, est un excellent moyen pour élargir mes connaissances et contribuer ainsi à m’ouvrir à un champ de réflexion plus exhaustif, inhérent aux stratégies thérapeutiques médicales , domaine qui me passionne !

Samia Menad

Master 2 recherche Nanobiologie
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER
J’ai toujours été intéressée par la recherche en biologie, ceci m’a amené à traverser la Méditerranée afin de découvrir davantage sur les nouvelles technologies qui contribuent à l’innovation de cette dernière. Etant sportive et ayant l’esprit d’équipe et de compétition, le projet iGEM est une grande opportunité qui me permet de rejoindre et de travailler avec une équipe pluridisciplinaire d’étudiants très motivés, et de concevoir avec eux un projet de recherche dans le domaine de la biologie synthétique.

Robin Pinilla

M1 Ingénierie pour la santé et le médicament
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER
Student in first year of master degrees of engineering for health and drugs (mmm drugs...) speciality biotechnologies, I am particularly interested in cell engienering and biological expression systems. In this context, I find that the iGEM, plus that beeing a great learning tool, is a unique opportunity for students to participate in a project of engineering bacteria from the idea to the functional biological system.

Advisors

Université Joseph Fourier

Hans Geiselmann

UJF LAPM
GRENOBLE Université Joseph FOURIER

I am Hans Geiselmann.

Grenoble INP

Franz Bruckert

LMGP
Grenoble INP

To my point of view, the most interesting aspect of the iGEM project is the collective construction of a new way of doing bioengineering. The modular approach is clearly more efficient in terms of experimental effort and it also helps understanding how cellular functions are organized. Implementing new functions in bacteria should in turn help to build up more efficient ways to represent the living beings complexity. Besides that, I like and challenges and iGEM is all of this.

Marianne Weidenhaupt

LMGP
Grenoble INP

I am a biology and immunology teacher at the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma. One of the important points of my teaching is to train students to be able to work at the interface of different scientific disciplines. iGem is a very exciting challenge that plunges us straight into interdisciplinarity and puts teachers and students face to face with what we aim for in our daily work. Personally I worked in bacterial genetics during my PhD, a field I left some 15 years ago and which I am more than happy to work in again with our team.

INRIA

Hidde De Jong

INRIA
GRENOBLE

I am a researcher in bioinformatics and mathematical biology at INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes. I am particularly interested in the modeling of bacterial regulatory networks.

CEA

Robert Baptist

CEA Grenoble
CEA Leti

Dr. Robert Baptist, physicist, is Research Director at CEA. He is an author or a co-author of 60 publications and 15 patents. He has recently leaded the interdisciplinary and transversal CEA program ChimTronique on chemistry applied to nanoelectronics. Today, he participates to the scientific animation of MINATECÒ and enjoys the active contact with the newly created Grenoble iGEM group.

Roberto Calemczuk

CEA Grenoble
SPRAM

I am Roberto.