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!

Xavier Duportet

Ph.D. student, FdV program : INRIA, MIT

Antoine Decrulle

M2 student, Master 2 AIV

Raphaël Pantier

4th year Pharmacy student, Université Paris-Sud 11

Aleksandra Nivina

5th year Pharmacy student, Université Paris Descartes

Stéphane Pinhal

M2 student, Ecole Normale Supérieure

Alexandre Richard

Engineering student, Ecole Centrale Paris

Léa Dixon

1st year college student, Lycée Saint-Louis

Théotime Calandra

1st year Medicine student, Université Paris Descartes

Eric Meltzer

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 four years ago and cannot wait to bring another trophy home...

David Bikard

PhD student, FdV program: Institut Pasteur
iGEM Paris 2007 team member

Yifan Yang

1st year PhD student, FdV program :
iGEM Peking 2007 team member

Anne-Sophie Coquel

Thomas Lombès

PhD student, FdV program :