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Where we are
 Located 5 minutes walk from the Luxembourg Gardens at the Paris Descartes Medicine Faculty in Cochin, the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity CRI was founded in 2005 as a convivial place at the crossroad between Life Sciences and exact, natural, cognitive and social sciences. Our environment includes a fully-equipped seminar room, a meeting room, office space for visiting professors, a library and coffee rooms and a modelling as well as wet-lab space. The CRI supported its students over three years ago to form the first French team to the iGEM and the tradition is continuing... This is where all happened!  

Student Team


Christophe Chabbert  Mathematics,  Mines Paris Tech  AKA "Colonel Chabbert", he is our specialist in modelling especially for an "easy/ordinary" delay system. He likes sciences (really ?? ), his iGEM co-workers ;-), pizzas, burger and ... wait for it .... Coca-cola



Caroline Loy  Biology,  Master 1 AIV After 3 months as a cow-girl in the middle of nowhere (Scotland), she decided to make animal experimentation on bacteria =D

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Romain Bodinier  Biology, UTC</a> </I> Still wondering why he is here ... (Is he looking for a new bacto-foot after the lost of his left one ???). But he represented the last hope for the team, because with Luc, they were the only survivors to maintain the Lab Work during September and October !

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Soufiane Boumahdi  Biochemistry, Insa Lyon</a> </I> Every team needs to have "panem et circenses", Soufifi is here for entertaining us. Be careful for the jamboree, The crazy singer is coming !!! stay close to him and you will understand.... hoo year you will.

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Charlotte Olivier Biology/genetics,  European Magister of Genetic</a> and Management/marketing: Specialized Master in management and marketing for the pharmaceutical industry, ESCP-Europe</a> </I> Our Obiwan Kenoby of the lab (without the laser saber)!!! Stoff's note : i may say that she is more like princess Leyla :D

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Guillaume Beauclair  Biology/Infectiology, Paris 7</a> </I> Labholic --> working too hard could be dangerous for your health (too much vegetables also). Our 20hour/day lab worker

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Sara Aguiton  Social Studies of Science,  EHESS</a> </I> Please, use simple ethical words when you are talking to a scientist assembly ;-)

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Christophe Richard  Biology/Informatics,  Master AIW </a> </I> AKA "Bibi", he can talk to computer (Respect !!!!) but not to iPhone ... what a shame for an iPhone developer

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Luc Malfondet Physics/ Nanotechnology & Nanobioscience  Master 2 AIV</a> </I> Open-minded guy !!!!!

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Pierre Escamilla  Mathematics, <a href="http://www.supelec.fr/"> Supelec </a></I> Cafeino-man and modellingo-man. Spanisho-man and algorythmo-man.

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Sylvain Hélas-Othenin <I> Chemistry, <a href="http://www.chimie.ens.fr/"> Ecole Normale Supérieure</a>, <a href="http://www.aiv-paris.org/fr/master-aiv/"> Master 2 AIV</a> </I> Graduation in Chemistry at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris - Interdisciplinary Master in Life Sciences at Université Paris Descartes, Paris ... but currently lost in the Middle-East !

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Vicard Du <I> Biology, <a href="http://www.aiv-paris.org/fr/master-aiv/"> Master 1 AIV </I></a> Uncle Mc Donalds is his best friend

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Supervisors
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Ariel Lindner

Co-initiator of the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (cri-paris.org), Ariel is an INSERM tenured senior researcher and director of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences ('AIV') master program at the Paris Descartes and Diderot Universities. Ariel has graduated from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) "Amirim" interdisciplinary program with major in Chemistry and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) in Chemical Immunology for his work on catalytic antibodies as enzyme models, antibody conformational changes and directed evolution. After a research period at the Scripps Institute (California, USA), he received EMBO and Marie Curie fellowships to pursue postdoctoral work in Paris. His study interests evolve around applying Physical, Chemical and Biological approaches to study aging and variability between clonal individuals. Ariel has been leading the Paris iGEM team since its conception over three years ago and cannot wait to bring another trophy home...

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Samuel Bottani <I>Physicist</I> Trained as a physicist, natural evolution made me shift from cosmology to molecular biology. I'm interested in a variety of scientific issues and their applications. I'm inspired by beauty and how forms, behaviors and ideas emerge and this drives me in my explorations of the wonders on Nature. Primarily how complex structures and behavior emerge and evolve. We are in an extraordinary period where never so many details have been known on living organisms. Whole genomes are known and extraordinary technological advances enable in vivo tracking and action on single cells and molecules. There is the feeling that a new level of understanding of Life is about to be gained, with fantastic potential for the evolution of humanity. I am eager to participate to endeavor and  by my research and critical thinking.

It is my opinion that scientists, as highly and costly educated citizens have social duty for the collectivity. Engagement in education is essential, ethical concern and involvement in technological and business matters for the benefit of all.

I am co-director of the international Ph.D. program "Frontières du Vivant" (Frontiers in Life Sciences, www.fdv-paris.org) of the Universities Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot for interdisciplinary research programs on Life Sciences issues. Hosted at the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (cri-paris.org) as the IGEM Paris team  we support active approaches in education for interdisciplinary research.

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François Le Fèvre <I>Biocomputational scientist</I> My research interests lie in the intersection of bioinformatics, and applied software engineering. My approach to research involves an interplay between experimental and theoretical modeling techniques, and is focused towards identifying and elucidating new knowledge interesting for biologists. Genomic Institute : <a href="http://www.cns.fr/" >Genoscope</a> French Atomic Energy Commission : <a href="http://www.cea.fr/" >CEA</a> Personal home page : <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/synbiocamp/" >SynBioCamp</a>

<img src="http://2009.igem.org/wiki/images/9/9c/Gregory_Batt.jpg" width=120px height=153px> Gregory Batt <I><a href="http://www.inria.fr/" >INRIA</a> Paris-Rocquencourt</I>

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Advisors
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Guillaume Cambray <I><a href="http://www.pasteur.fr" > Pasteur Institute </a> Post Doctoral student</I>

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David Bikard <I> 2nd year PhD student in Biology at <a href="http://www.pasteur.fr" > the Pasteur Institute</I></a> iGEM Paris 2007 team member

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Fanny Caffin <I> 1st year PhD student in molecular & cellular Biology at <a href="http://inserm-u769.cep.u-psud.fr/fr/index.html/" > Paris XI University</I></a> iGEM Paris 2008 team member ...Your flight attendant at your service...

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Benoît d'Hayer <I>Pharmacy at the <a href="http://www.univ-paris5.fr/" > Paris Descartes University</a></I> Master's degree <a href="http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/magisteregenet/"> of the European Master of Genetic</a> iGEM Paris 2008 team member Where is Ploum?

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Yann Le Cunff <I>Applied Mathematics, <a href="http://www.supelec.fr/"> Supelec </a></I> iGEM Paris 2008 team member Pierre's and Colonel's biggest fan EVER.