The Team

We are the VT-ENSIMAG biosecurity team, linking both Virginia Tech and ENSIMAG and hosted at Virginia Tech(VT) by the synthetic biology group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI).

VT

Virginia Tech is located at Blacksburg, VA (USA) where 30,000+ students study in one of the nine colleges and grad school. (http://www.vt.edu/about/)

VBI

The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is a research institute dedicated to the study of the biological sciences at Virginia Tech. By using bioinformatics, which combines transdisciplinary approaches to information technology and biology, researchers at VBI interpret and apply vast amounts of biological data generated from basic research to some of today¿s key challenges in the biomedical, environmental and agricultural sciences.

(https://www.vbi.vt.edu/about_vbi/)

ENSIMAG

The ENSIMAG is located in Grenoble, France. It is a top French educational institution in informatics, applied mathematics and telecommunications, pioneer in the field of information processing. Ensimag students stay three years in this engineering school where they finish their BS (students had already prepared for two years the admission exam to the ENSIMAG school in another institution) and get a master degree in CS and applied math (plus specialization).

(http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/)

Synthetic biology group

The Synthetic biology group's research focuses on Computer Assisted Design of synthetic genetic systems, Linguistic models of biological sequences, Stochastic dynamics of the yeast cell cycle and Quantitative imaging.

(https://www.vbi.vt.edu/faculty/research_groups/synthetic_biology)

Supervisor

Jean Peccoud, associate professor in Virginia Bioinformatics Institut Email: jpeccoud@vbi.vt.edu

Advisor

Laura Adam, PhD student in the synthetic biology group. Email: ladam@vbi.vt.edu

Students

Olivier Mirat

Email: mirato@ensimag.fr

Concentration: Computer Science/Math Masters student (Mathematical modeling, images, simulation; option Bioinformatics)

School: ENSIMAG

Gaëlle Letort

Email: gaelle.letort@ensimag.imag.fr

Concentration: Computer Science/Math Masters student (Mathematical modeling, images, simulation; option Bioinformatics)

School: ENSIMAG

Arunima Srivastava

Email: arunima.srivastava1@gmail.com

Concentration: Computer Science Undergraduate

School: Virginia Tech

Michael Kozar

Email: mkozar07@vt.edu

Concentration: Biochemistry/French Undergraduate

School: Virginia Tech

Tyler Stewart

Email: stewartt@vbi.vt.edu

Concentration: Biology/Biochemistry Undergraduate

School: Virginia Tech