A team of eight students from Toulouse (4 engineering students from INSA and 4 masters degree students from Paul Sabatier University [UT3]) will participate in the prestigious iGEM synthetic biology competition (International Genetically Engineered Machine), organised by the MIT (http://igem.org).This year the subject chosen by the team from Toulouse focuses on the preservation of Lascaux Cave. The inestimable rock paintings that it shelters are endangered by the action of bacterial and fungal micro-organisms. The project is to create a strain of Bacillus subtilis in such a way as to improve its capacity of predation and make it capable of releasing antifungals and thus to restore the microbiological equilibrium inside the cave.As every year, TWB provides financial support for this project led by lecturer-researchers from UT3 and INSA (LISBP).Possibility of business sponsorship: igemtoulouse2016@gmail.comContact: Véronique Paquet (paquet@insa-toulouse.fr)
