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        <p>At the beginning of June, after a month of reflection on the Quaranskin project, we decided to start looking for collaborations. In the perspective of finding participants, but also possibly of sharing our project with other teams.
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                        That's how we came up with the idea of a Chit-Chat, around the skin microbiome during lockdown!
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        <p>The microbiome is a relatively recent discovery, which we found interesting to first place in a historical context, marking a clear evolution from the Renaissance to the ideals of purity of the 20th century. Moreover, variations according to cultures and types of space occupied were pointed out. The modern way of life does not allow the same relationship with the environment as a way of life close to nature existing in some cultures. Some issues were raised there about the impact of the Modern lifestyle on the skin microbiome.
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This led to a debate surrounding a potential "engineered microbiome", and its ethical implications. Each team had then the opportunity to talk about their project, and the challenges they were facing.</p>
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" On the 8th of June, we joined the Zoom-Talk “Let’s talk about our Microbiome!” hosted by iGEM team Paris Bettencourt. We gained fascinating insights into the microbiome on our skins and how it is influenced by our environment.(…) Still, we had a great time chatting and gained a whole new view onto our skin! "</p>
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            <p>With the Parisian teams, iGEM Ionis, Sorbonne, Évry, Paris-Saclay, we organized a worldwide virtual meetup on the weekend of September 5th and 6th.
 
  
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                                The second senario is the use of probiotic to treat eczema. No kill swich would be
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                                implemented but it is expected that the bacteria would be outcompeted by native bacteria
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                                of the skin.
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                                The third senario is the use od S. epidermidis as an anti-aging probiotic. Since it's a
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                                commensal bacteria of the skin, in this case it would remain as permanant membre of the
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                                microbiome.
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                                For each of these senario, passionating discussions were opened about risks of such an
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                                implementation and solution to avoid these problems.</p>
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                                alt="St. Andrews Workshop" style="width: 80%;">
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        <p>We had the chance to host several speakers for this event, on various topics : Agathe Lermant and Paul Lubrano, former iGEMers, talked about their iGEM experience. Maher Ben Khaled gave a great talk about bioentrepreneurship. Pierre Crozet, a researcher in synthetic biology presented the concept of the MoClo. And finally Guillaume Levrier spoke about history and politics surrounding CRISPR, you can rewatch his talk on videos below.
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                                engineering a bacteria able to degrade mercure, a major polluant in Vieques, an
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                                island-municipality of Puerto Rico. This project led to great discussions around ethics
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                                linked to releasing engineered bacteria in nature - in a situation of extreme necessity
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                                ? - and about making public education, even raising citizen's awareness on pollutants
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                                and on the use of synthetic biology to counter negative impacts.
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      <p class="center-logo">Speaker: Guillaume Levrier - Part 3</p>
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        <p>Because social events are also what make a good meetup, Paris-Bettencourt organized a cooking session on French specialty: Chouquettes!</p>
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                            <h6>Pitch Presentation</h6>
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                            <p>We were pleased to see many teams taking part in our project pitch sessions!
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                                present their project in a few minutes. At the end every participant can vote for the
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                                best presentation, and the 3 winners are rewarded with a Biorender session and a totebag
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                                with the iGEMeetParis logo!
  
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                            <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/c/c2/T--Paris_Bettencourt--Podiums2.png"
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                                alt="Pitch Presentation Podiums" style="height: 300px;">
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                    </div>
  
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        <p>In terms of logistics, the organization of such an event required meticulous preparation. Consultation with iGEM's organizers was required to deal with zoom rooms. During the event, all technical facilities were to be designed in advance : creation of voting forms, preparation of the cooking sessions, sharing all the links in advance with password, the flyers, division into sub-groups, among others. We thank Nemanja Stijepovic and Maarten Lubbers, with whom we had constant interaction and who followed us throughout the event.</p>
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        <p>This meetup was an extraordinary moment of sharing and exchange, both in a human and profesional aspect. Thank you to all the other Parisian teams!</p>
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                <h6>Speakers</h6>
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                <p>We had the chance to host several speakers for this event, on various topics : Agathe Lermant and
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<br>
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                    Paul Lubrano, former iGEMers, talked about their iGEM experience. Maher Ben Khaled gave a great talk
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<br>
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                    about bioentrepreneurship. Pierre Crozet, a researcher in synthetic biology presented the concept of
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                    the MoClo. And finally Guillaume Levrier spoke about history and politics surrounding CRISPR, you
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      <h5>Collaboration with iGEM 2020 Teams</h5>
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            <h6>iGEM 2020 - Team St. Andrews</h6>
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            <p>We met the St Andrews team during our ChitChat event in early June. On this occasion, we exchanged with them on the skin microbiome. They wanted to learn more about the diversity and interactions of the microbiome for their probiotic sunscreen project ; on our side, we were looking for participants as well as curious to look for new ideas on synthetic biology applied to the microbiome.
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Interested in each other, we continued our exchanges after this event. We proposed to test their sunscreen on a synthetic skin environment developped in EpiGrow project, unfortuatly the 2D model was not ready on time. They participated in the iGEMeetParis workshop during which they presented a amazing workshop!</p>
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          </div>
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            <h6>iGEM 2020 - Team Nottingham</h6>
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             <p>We have been in contact with the Nottingham team when looking for iGEM teams under confinment for our Quaranskin project. In discussions with them, we learned from each other's projects. They were enthusiastic to participate in our study, and we were offering to bring a wet lab component to their project as we did have access to our lab. Finally, they suggested that we record a podcast to talk about our experiences with iGEM this year, the team and the project, and the challenges we still face. This was a fantastic experience, and we thank Nottingham for inviting us. In return, we invited them to participate in the Paris Meetup event, which some of them attended, and actively participated in the workshop!
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</p>
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            </video>
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             <p class="center-logo">Speaker: Guillaume Levrier - Part 1</p>
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        </div>
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             <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/f/f8/T--Paris_Bettencourt--Nottspodcast.png" alt="iGEM 2020 Nottingham" height="176px;">
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             <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/5/54/T--Paris_Bettencourt--NottRealLogo.png" alt="iGEM 2020 Nottingham" width="256px;">
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          </div>
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                <source src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/f/f5/T--Paris_Bettencourt--Gui_Lev2.mp4"
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                    type="video/mp4">Your browser does not support the video element.
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            </video>
 +
            <p class="center-logo">Speaker: Guillaume Levrier - Part 2</p>
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        </div>
 +
        <div class="row video">
 +
             <video width="640" height="auto" controls>
 +
                <source src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/a/ac/T--Paris_Bettencourt--Gui_Lev3.mp4"
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                    type="video/mp4">Your browser does not support the video element.
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            </video>
 +
            <p class="center-logo">Speaker: Guillaume Levrier - Part 3</p>
 
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         </div>
  
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            <h6>iGEM 2020 - Team Imperial</h6>
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                <h6>Social Events</h6>
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            <p>Imperial 2020 iGEM team developed an  automated DNA assembly project. In the meantime, part of our project is about creating a MoClo kit to allow easy assembly of numerous combinations of DNA parts. However, assembly and cloning by hand is time consuming and would not require human intervention. If a collaboration was not possible due to too short deadlines, automated DNA assembly to construct all the different plasmids of our MoClo toolkit remains a subject of collaboration we would dream to see happen!</p>
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                <p>Because social events are also what make a good meetup, Paris-Bettencourt organized a cooking session
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+
                    on French specialty: Chouquettes!</p>
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          <div class="col s12 m12 l3 center-align">
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                <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/7/76/T--Paris_Bettencourt--chouquette.png"
−
            <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/8/83/T--Paris_Bettencourt--ImperialLogo.jpg" alt="iGEM 2020 Imperial" height="176px;">
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                    alt="Chouquettes Workshop" class="responsive-img">
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            </div>
 
         </div>
 
         </div>
  
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         <div class="row valign-wrapper">
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          <div class="col s12 m12 l9">
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            <h6>iGEM 2020 UGent - Team Bubbly</h6>
+
 
−
            <p>We contacted the Nottingham team when looking for iGEM teams under confinement for our Quaranskin project. In discussions with them, we learnt about each other's projects. They were enthusiastic to participate in our study, and we were offering to bring a wet lab component to their project as we had access to a lab. Finally, they suggested that we record a podcast to talk about our experiences with iGEM this year, the team and the project, and the challenges we still face. This was a fantastic experience, and we thank Nottingham for inviting us. In return, we invited them to participate in the Paris Meetup event, which some of them attended, and actively participated in the workshop in.
+
                <p>In terms of logistics, the organization of such an event required meticulous preparation.
−
</p>
+
                    Consultation with iGEM's organizers was required to deal with zoom rooms. During the event, all
−
          </div>
+
                    technical facilities were to be designed in advance : creation of voting forms, preparation of the
−
          <div class="col s12 m12 l3 center-align">
+
                    cooking sessions, sharing all the links in advance with password, the flyers, division into
−
             <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/e/e0/T--Paris_Bettencourt--BubblyLogo.jpg" alt="iGEM UGent Team Bubbly" height="176px;">
+
                    sub-groups, among others. We thank Nemanja Stijepovic and Maarten Lubbers, with whom we had constant
−
          </div>
+
                    interaction and who followed us throughout the event.</p>
 +
                <p>This meetup was an extraordinary moment of sharing and exchange, both in a human and profesional
 +
                    aspect. Thank you to all the other Parisian teams!</p>
 +
             </div>
 
         </div>
 
         </div>
  
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         <div class="row valign-wrapper">
+
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−
          <div class="col s12 m12 l9">
+
        <br>
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            <h6>iGEM 2020 UGent - Team Vsycle</h6>
+
        <br>
−
            <p>In beginning of August, we learned that UGent had two teams, thanks to Laure, who proposed to include members of their team in our study. We spoke about their project, and discovered they were looking for people in the agriculture field to complete their questionnaire. As the survey was written in English, we suggested to translate it into French before we can share it with our own contacts in France. We were glad to participate in this multicultural, multilingual exchange. We attach particular importance to translation and adaptation to populations we reach out to !</p>
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        <br>
−
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+
        <br>
−
          <div class="col s12 m12 l3 center-align">
+
        <br>
−
            <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/2/2a/T--Paris_Bettencourt--VsycleLogo.jpg" alt="iGEM 2020 UGent Team Vsycle" height="176px;">
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          </div>
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 +
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 +
                    <h5>Collaboration with iGEM 2020 Teams</h5>
 +
 
 +
                    <div class="row valign-wrapper">
 +
                        <div class="col s12 m12 l9">
 +
                            <h6>iGEM 2020 - Team St. Andrews</h6>
 +
                            <p>We met the St Andrews team during our ChitChat event in early June. On this occasion, we
 +
                                exchanged with them on the skin microbiome. They wanted to learn more about the
 +
                                diversity and interactions of the microbiome for their probiotic sunscreen project ; on
 +
                                our side, we were looking for participants as well as curious to look for new ideas on
 +
                                synthetic biology applied to the microbiome.
 +
                                Interested in each other, we continued our exchanges after this event. We proposed to
 +
                                test their sunscreen on a synthetic skin environment developped in EpiGrow project,
 +
                                unfortuatly the 2D model was not ready on time. They participated in the iGEMeetParis
 +
                                workshop during which they presented a amazing workshop!</p>
 +
                        </div>
 +
                        <div class="col s12 m12 l3 center-align">
 +
                            <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/1/1c/T--Paris_Bettencourt--StAndrewsLogo.jpg"
 +
                                height="176px;">
 +
                        </div>
 +
                    </div>
 +
 
 +
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 +
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 +
                            <h6>iGEM 2020 - Team Nottingham</h6>
 +
                            <p>We have been in contact with the Nottingham team when looking for iGEM teams under
 +
                                confinment for our Quaranskin project. In discussions with them, we learned from each
 +
                                other's projects. They were enthusiastic to participate in our study, and we were
 +
                                offering to bring a wet lab component to their project as we did have access to our lab.
 +
                                Finally, they suggested that we record a podcast to talk about our experiences with iGEM
 +
                                this year, the team and the project, and the challenges we still face. This was a
 +
                                fantastic experience, and we thank Nottingham for inviting us. In return, we invited
 +
                                them to participate in the Paris Meetup event, which some of them attended, and actively
 +
                                participated in the workshop!
 +
                            </p>
 +
                        </div>
 +
                        <div class="col s12 m12 l3 center-align">
 +
                            <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/f/f8/T--Paris_Bettencourt--Nottspodcast.png"
 +
                                alt="iGEM 2020 Nottingham" height="176px;">
 +
                            <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/5/54/T--Paris_Bettencourt--NottRealLogo.png"
 +
                                alt="iGEM 2020 Nottingham" width="256px;">
 +
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 +
                    </div>
 +
 
 +
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 +
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 +
                            <h6>iGEM 2020 - Team Imperial</h6>
 +
                            <p>Imperial 2020 iGEM team developed an automated DNA assembly project. In the meantime,
 +
                                part of our project is about creating a MoClo kit to allow easy assembly of numerous
 +
                                combinations of DNA parts. However, assembly and cloning by hand is time consuming and
 +
                                would not require human intervention. If a collaboration was not possible due to too
 +
                                short deadlines, automated DNA assembly to construct all the different plasmids of our
 +
                                MoClo toolkit remains a subject of collaboration we would dream to see happen!</p>
 +
                        </div>
 +
                        <div class="col s12 m12 l3 center-align">
 +
                            <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2020/8/83/T--Paris_Bettencourt--ImperialLogo.jpg"
 +
                                alt="iGEM 2020 Imperial" height="176px;">
 +
                        </div>
 +
                    </div>
 +
 
 +
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 +
                            <h6>iGEM 2020 UGent - Team Bubbly</h6>
 +
                            <p>We contacted the Nottingham team when looking for iGEM teams under confinement for our
 +
                                Quaranskin project. In discussions with them, we learnt about each other's projects.
 +
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Collaboration

Collaborations







Chit Chat
iGEM France
Paris Meetup
Paris Meetup






Chit Chat

At the beginning of June, after a month of reflection on the Quaranskin project, we decided to start looking for collaborations. In the perspective of finding participants, but also possibly of sharing our project with other teams. That's how we came up with the idea of a Chit-Chat, around the skin microbiome during lockdown! Through this event, we also got the opportunity to get to know other teams' experiences about iGEM around the world, and how they reacted when the crisis and the lockdown occurred. Several teams attended, including iGEM St Andrews, Vienne, Rochester, Peru.

The microbiome is a relatively recent discovery, which we found interesting to first place in a historical context, marking a clear evolution from the Renaissance to the ideals of purity of the 20th century. Moreover, variations according to cultures and types of space occupied were pointed out. The modern way of life does not allow the same relationship with the environment as a way of life close to nature existing in some cultures. Some issues were raised there about the impact of the Modern lifestyle on the skin microbiome. This led to a debate surrounding a potential "engineered microbiome", and its ethical implications. Each team had then the opportunity to talk about their project, and the challenges they were facing.

It seems it was a success ! Here's a feedback from iGEM Vienna: " On the 8th of June, we joined the Zoom-Talk “Let’s talk about our Microbiome!” hosted by iGEM team Paris Bettencourt. We gained fascinating insights into the microbiome on our skins and how it is influenced by our environment.(…) Still, we had a great time chatting and gained a whole new view onto our skin! "

Chit Chat screenshot






iGEM France

iGEM France is a project that brings together 11 French-speaking iGEM teams, the 10 French teams plus the EPFL Lausanne team, for a total project of 130 members! In a collegial effort, we realized a video that gathers a presentation of each team, their project, their city, and anything else they wanted to share with the rest of the community !

iGEM France Logo
iGEM France Flyer






Paris MeetUp

With the Parisian teams, iGEM Ionis, Sorbonne, Évry, Paris-Saclay, we organized a worldwide virtual meetup on the weekend of September 5th and 6th. It was first the chance to meet the Parisian teams. Indeed the organisation of the event needed a lot of online meetings, preparations, search for speakers, and communication between us and also toward all the other iGEM teams over the world. This event was aslo an opportunity to interact with other iGEMers. To meet them, to exchange knowledge, create group reflections during workshops or hackaton, and aslo brainstorming sessions around speakers' presentations on bioentrepreneurship, iGEM experience, Modular Cloning, and history and politics surrounding CRISPR. All the teams participatin to the meetup have the opportunity to present thier project in few mintue taking part in a stimulating competition, during which the winner were rewarded by special prizes.

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iGEM Paris MeetUp Screenshot

Workshops, Pitch Presentations, Hackathons
St. Andrews Workshop

During their workshop the St Andrew team presented us 3 senarios, and for each of them asked open questions to raise debate on ethical problematics. The first senario revolves around the use of an engineered E.coli as probiotic to treat acne on face, which have a kill swich leading to its death after a certain amount of time. The second senario is the use of probiotic to treat eczema. No kill swich would be implemented but it is expected that the bacteria would be outcompeted by native bacteria of the skin. The third senario is the use od S. epidermidis as an anti-aging probiotic. Since it's a commensal bacteria of the skin, in this case it would remain as permanant membre of the microbiome. For each of these senario, passionating discussions were opened about risks of such an implementation and solution to avoid these problems.

St. Andrews Workshop
iGEM RUM Workshop

iGEM RUM also hosted a workshop, in which they first presented their project. It aims at engineering a bacteria able to degrade mercure, a major polluant in Vieques, an island-municipality of Puerto Rico. This project led to great discussions around ethics linked to releasing engineered bacteria in nature - in a situation of extreme necessity ? - and about making public education, even raising citizen's awareness on pollutants and on the use of synthetic biology to counter negative impacts.

iGEM RUM Workshop




Pitch Presentation

We were pleased to see many teams taking part in our project pitch sessions! In these, we gave the opportunity on two slots of two hours, each day, to teams to present their project in a few minutes. At the end every participant can vote for the best presentation, and the 3 winners are rewarded with a Biorender session and a totebag with the iGEMeetParis logo!

Pitch Presentation Podiums
Speakers

We had the chance to host several speakers for this event, on various topics : Agathe Lermant and Paul Lubrano, former iGEMers, talked about their iGEM experience. Maher Ben Khaled gave a great talk about bioentrepreneurship. Pierre Crozet, a researcher in synthetic biology presented the concept of the MoClo. And finally Guillaume Levrier spoke about history and politics surrounding CRISPR, you can rewatch his talk on videos below.

Social Events

Because social events are also what make a good meetup, Paris-Bettencourt organized a cooking session on French specialty: Chouquettes!

Chouquettes Workshop

In terms of logistics, the organization of such an event required meticulous preparation. Consultation with iGEM's organizers was required to deal with zoom rooms. During the event, all technical facilities were to be designed in advance : creation of voting forms, preparation of the cooking sessions, sharing all the links in advance with password, the flyers, division into sub-groups, among others. We thank Nemanja Stijepovic and Maarten Lubbers, with whom we had constant interaction and who followed us throughout the event.

This meetup was an extraordinary moment of sharing and exchange, both in a human and profesional aspect. Thank you to all the other Parisian teams!







Collaboration with iGEM 2020 Teams
iGEM 2020 - Team St. Andrews

We met the St Andrews team during our ChitChat event in early June. On this occasion, we exchanged with them on the skin microbiome. They wanted to learn more about the diversity and interactions of the microbiome for their probiotic sunscreen project ; on our side, we were looking for participants as well as curious to look for new ideas on synthetic biology applied to the microbiome. Interested in each other, we continued our exchanges after this event. We proposed to test their sunscreen on a synthetic skin environment developped in EpiGrow project, unfortuatly the 2D model was not ready on time. They participated in the iGEMeetParis workshop during which they presented a amazing workshop!

iGEM 2020 - Team Nottingham

We have been in contact with the Nottingham team when looking for iGEM teams under confinment for our Quaranskin project. In discussions with them, we learned from each other's projects. They were enthusiastic to participate in our study, and we were offering to bring a wet lab component to their project as we did have access to our lab. Finally, they suggested that we record a podcast to talk about our experiences with iGEM this year, the team and the project, and the challenges we still face. This was a fantastic experience, and we thank Nottingham for inviting us. In return, we invited them to participate in the Paris Meetup event, which some of them attended, and actively participated in the workshop!

iGEM 2020 Nottingham iGEM 2020 Nottingham
iGEM 2020 - Team Imperial

Imperial 2020 iGEM team developed an automated DNA assembly project. In the meantime, part of our project is about creating a MoClo kit to allow easy assembly of numerous combinations of DNA parts. However, assembly and cloning by hand is time consuming and would not require human intervention. If a collaboration was not possible due to too short deadlines, automated DNA assembly to construct all the different plasmids of our MoClo toolkit remains a subject of collaboration we would dream to see happen!

iGEM 2020 Imperial
iGEM 2020 UGent - Team Bubbly

We contacted the Nottingham team when looking for iGEM teams under confinement for our Quaranskin project. In discussions with them, we learnt about each other's projects. They were enthusiastic to participate in our study, and we were offering to bring a wet lab component to their project as we had access to a lab. Finally, they suggested that we record a podcast to talk about our experiences with iGEM this year, the team and the project, and the challenges we still face. This was a fantastic experience, and we thank Nottingham for inviting us. In return, we invited them to participate in the Paris Meetup event, which some of them attended, and actively participated in the workshop in.

iGEM UGent Team Bubbly
iGEM 2020 UGent - Team Vsycle

In beginning of August, we learned that UGent had two teams, thanks to Laure, who proposed to include members of their team in our study. We spoke about their project, and discovered they were looking for people in the agriculture field to complete their questionnaire. As the survey was written in English, we suggested to translate it into French before we can share it with our own contacts in France. We were glad to participate in this multicultural, multilingual exchange. We attach particular importance to translation and adaptation to populations we reach out to !

iGEM 2020 UGent Team Vsycle