Sponsors
The CAP'siRNA project was brought to life and flourished thanks to the invaluable support, expertise, and investment from our sponsors. We extend our warmest thanks to each sponsor for believing in us and in our project.
Material Providers
We deeply appreciate NEB's generosity in providing us with various kits, restriction enzymes, and competent bacteria.
We thank IDT for providing the sequences we needed to construct our plasmid.
We thank Thermo Fisher Scientific for supplying us with consumables and plasmids for our lab work.
We are grateful to SnapGene for granting us free access to their software, which significantly improved our laboratory constructions.
A huge thanks to Agilent Technologies for allowing us access to a qRT-PCR machine.
Web link : https://www.agilent.com/
We thank our school SupBiotech for supporting the development of our project and dedicating a laboratory space for our experiments.
Big thanks to the Institut Technique de la Betterave (ITB) for providing us with sugar beet seeds, essential for our project.
Thank you INRAe for offering us infected sugar beet leaves by BYV that were essential for our project.
A special thanks to the Belgian laboratory KU Leuven and Prof. Dr. L. Temmerman for generously providing us with E. coli HT115 bacteria for our experiments.
A huge thanks to Promega for providing us with essential lab consumables.
We are grateful to Synthelis for providing a free kit for our laboratory experiments.
Web link : https://synthelis.com/
We thank Twist Bioscience for the sequences needed for our plasmid construction.
Thank you Unveil Bio for sponsoring us for this iGEM competition by offering sequences for our plasmid construction.
We thank Addgene for sponsoring us during this iGEM adventure.
Fundings
We are deeply grateful to DIM BioConS for their generous contribution to our project and, for enabling us to participate in various events such as Science Day.
A heartfelt thanks to Ionis Education Group and specifically SupBiotech for their generous investments, which covered our participation in the Grand Jamboree, as well as the materials necessary for our lab work and other events.
Thanks to Cristal Union, for your generous sponsorship, which allowed our team to achieve significant results.
We thank the Biomim’Expo, for providing us with grants that enabled us to get essential lab equipment.
A big thanks to all generous individuals who contributed to our crowdfunding campaign throughout our project. Their support has enabled us to push the boundaries of our solution.
Partners
IONIS Education Group is a collective of engineering schools. SupBiotech is where most of our team members study, specializing in biotechnology. EPITA and ESME are schools of computer science and digital engineering, respectively. SupBiotech provided us with substantial support, including lab space throughout our project's development.
Cristal Union is an agro-industrial cooperative group. It is one of the leading European producers of sugar and alcohol. The Group brings together more than 2,000 employees at Group level and 9,000 cooperators. Their R&D teams work for more responsible agriculture, focused on the challenges of tomorrow. Thank you Cristal Union for your advice and grants.
The Technical Institute of Beet (ITB) is a French agricultural institute specializing in beet cultivation. ITB coordinates agronomic research alongside other organizations like INRAe and advises beet growers. Our visit to ITB was invaluable in understanding the current research challenges and perspectives on beet yellows disease.
The National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAe) aims to build research that serves the production of knowledge, education, innovation, in support of public policies, in order to accelerate transitions in agriculture, food and the environment to achieve sustainable development goals. Thanks to INRAe for their advice on Yellows disease and our project.
Thank you to the Villejuif city hall for providing us with grants that enabled us to participate in Villejuif Respire. This event allowed us to organize educational games that sparked children's curiosity about science, all while advancing our project.