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Team introduction

Hello everyone ! We are glad to attend to the 2019 iGEM competition as the Orléans team. We are a group of Master's degree students from the University of Orleans that decided to join the iGEM adventure. For all of us, it's a brand new experience. It was tough to implement it in our university, but we had a lot of support from everyone and we don't regret it ! We had a lot of fun and carry-out a whole scientific project on our own was a verry fulfilling experience.

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Quentin Mura

Team leader - Founder - Pillar of the team

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about me : My name is Quentin and I am in my second year of a Master's degree in Biotechnology, Molecular and Cellular Biology and I am passionate about innovation and new technologies. Last year I decided to form a team for the iGEM competition after hearing about it from a trainee student who had participated in the competition in 2017. At first the project seemed crazy and impossible, but finally it resulted in a great team, strong support from our teachers and motivated partners who will always be friends.

fun fact : During the paintball session, I was too proud of my victory over Raphael in the last game. But one minute after the start of the next game, I took 3 bullets in the butt..... At that moment, I felt like Forest Gump, something had stung me! After that, I couldn't sit for two days.

Alexandre Rutault

Team pillar - Founder

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about me : My name is Alexandre Rutault and I'm currently doing my last Master's degree year in molecular and cellular biology. I'm one of the funder members and I'm an active member of the scientific team. I'm particularly interested in physiology and pathology and I could adapt my cellular culture knowledge to bacterial culture. Besides sciences, I love music and climbing.

fun fact : When I was preparing the heavy metal solution, I was feeling like Darth Vador with my gloves and mask. *loud breathing noise* ...Cupriavidus...I'm your father !

Thibaut fillion

Team pillar - Founder - Webmaster

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about me : My name is Thibault. I’m in the second year of a Master’s degree in Biotechniligies, Molecular and Cellular Biology at the university of Orleans interested in bioinformatics. It is my first participation to the iGEM competition. I have expecially contributed to the projet design and to the developpement of the wiki.

fun fact : During the paintball we made at the end of hollidays with the team, i though i could do without my glasses. My forehead met a nice metal bar. I eventually changed my mind.

Raphaël Néré

Team pillar - Founder

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about me : I’m Raphaël, I were studying in the first year of a Master degree in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Orléans. Attending to this first year of iGEM competition was a true pleasure. I especially participated to the creation of the association and, to a lesser extent, to the lab experiments during this summer.

fun fact : During the paintball, I was hidden in the bank and Quentin guessed it without any clue.

Thibaut Bourdin

Scientific pillar - Experiment-boy

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about me : I am a member of the iGEM Orléans team and the last one to have joined the team. I am also a student at the University of Orléans very interested in protein engineering

fun fact : On several occasions, I have inadvertently pressed one of the emergency stop buttons in the laboratory. So I had to bother someone every time to put the electricity back into the lab.

Bilal Handelaoui

Scientific member

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about me : My name is Bilal Handelaoui. I'm currently completing the final year of a Master's degree course in Biology. I'm majoring in molecular and cellular biology and I'm very interested in biotechnology. I supported the team by bringing my vision on scientific aspects.

fun fact : At the beginning of the project, we visited a wastewater treatment plant. Soon we realized that our sense of smell will be severely tested.

Mohamed-Arezki Boudarene

Scientific member

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about me : My name is Arezki, I am in the first year of a Master's degree in Sciences of Life at the University of Orléans. I am passionate about science and medicine. This is my first participation at the iGem competition, and I tried to be there to help my team with the different aspects of the project whenever I could.

fun fact : It's true that I'm quite thin, so my friends didn't expect me to be the person who eats the most when we went out as a team to the Chinese restaurant at will. But I must admit that Thibault is a serious competitor.

Xavier Racine

Founder - Scientific member

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about me : I'm a student in biology and i love structural biology.

fun fact : As say Voltaire : "Who, as a cowardly deserter of his authority, has only pride for all dignity"

Chloé Tomaz

Communication member

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about me : My name is Chloé, I am a Master 2 student in Chemistry from a Master 1 in Sciences of Life at the University of Orléans. I am interested in "green chemistry". The participation in the iGEM competition is for me a first time where I was able to help within the "Communication" department.

Coleen Guillard

Communication member

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about me : I'm a student in Molecular and Cellular Biology. I was active as a member of the communication team.

Fanny Bain

Communication leader

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about me : Hello, I am currently, like my most of my teammates in the second year of a Master's degree in Biology at the University of Orléans, focusing on neuroscience and animal behaviour. I love to travel and discover new things, one of my dreams is to go around the world!

fun fact : iGEM is really a funny experience, especially when you lose the lab team in the corridors of a lab you don't know... It's not easy to find them, they run fast !

Mégane Fernandez

Communication leader

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about me : As a student in my final year of a Master's degree in Biology at the University of Orléans, I wish to continue my professional project and pursue a PhD. I am particularly interested in the immunological study of human pathologies. I am a member of the communication team. Dynamic and organized, I managed the media of our team.

Pierre Lafite

PI - Associate Professor at the ICOA

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about me : I have been an associate Professor of Biochemistry at University of Orléans since 10 years, mostly working on using Carbohydrate Active Enzymes (CaZYmes) as biocatalysts in chemoenzymatic synthesis. I enjoyed working with Metal’Ose IGEM group, and was impressed by their involvement spirit to lead this project, even during troubled times… As my colleague Arnaud pointed out, thanks again for the delicious putrid smells cultures in our lab. Always a pleasure !

Maryvonne Ardourel

PI - Lecturer - Researcher at the INEM

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about me : I am assistant professor in biochemistry and biotechnology for 25 years at the University of Orleans. My expertise is particularly in cell metabolism. After focusing on metabolism in brain tumors, my research focused on metabolic alterations in fragile X syndrome, a severe mental retardation. One day, I give them a key, which opens a door, a room is transformed, into a magic cave by white smocks of iGEM-Orléans.

Fabienne Brulé-Morabito

Honour member - Lecturer - Researcher at the CBM

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about me : I have been an associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology at University of Orléans since 15 years. In my lab, the Center for Molecular Biophysics (CBM), I’m working on GALIG, a human gene embedded in the Galectin-3 gene has been initially described as a proapoptotic gene. We investigate GALIG gene expression and others genes in different pathologies, as HIV infection.

fun fact : Unlike my colleagues, I did not suffer the foul smells !!!

Dorimene Pohla

Scientific member

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about me : I'm a student in Biocosmetic biology. I helped a bit on the theoric part.

François Héricourt

Instructor - Lecturer - Researcher at the LBLGC

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about me : I am a lecturer in molecular biology at the University of’Orléans. I teach to undergraduate, and first year master degree students in the areas of biotechnologies and plant virology. Also, as a researcher at the LBLGC, I work on a signaling pathway associated to drougth in poplar. It’s all about studying at the molecular level osmosensor type receptor in order to be able to copmrehend the perception of drougth in plants and thus to enhance plant toloerance to this environmental stress.

Sylvain Bourgerie

Instructor - Lecturer - Researcher at the LBLGC

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about me : I am lecturer in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Orléans. In addition, as a researcher at the LBLGC, I am involved in studies aimed at revegetating sites contaminated by heavy metals (mining sites). To do this, we use amendments that promote the growth of selected plants and also affect the bioavailability of pollutants. My work focuses in particular on the molecular responses developed by different plant species to metal stress.

Manhattan Lebrun

Advisor - PhD student at the LBLGC

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about me : My name is Manhattan Lebrun. I am a PhD student in environmental biology. I focus on the phytoremediation of soils contaminated with metals and metalloids. This study aims at proposing a solution in order to reduce the rick posed by these sites.

Arnaud Paris

Advisor - technician in biochemistry at the ICOA

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about me : Hello everyone. I’m Arnaud technician in biochemistry. I am working in the laboratory where the team was doing their experiments.

I am very glad to be part of the iGEM competition because I think it is a great adventure for future researchers. I learned a lot about your teamwork and especially about your unlimited involvement in your research theme. Thanks to you for these small smells diffused in our offices, these smells diffuses in the air delighted our olfactory systems! For my part, I dream of space conquest and above all read science fiction!