{"id":3433,"date":"2016-12-07T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T09:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/insights\/actualites\/actualite\/gold-medal-for-the-igem-toulouse-team\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:52:35","slug":"gold-medal-for-the-igem-toulouse-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/insights\/blog\/news\/gold-medal-for-the-igem-toulouse-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold medal for the iGEM Toulouse team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth successive year, the iGEM Toulouse 2016 team, composed of students of INSA Toulouse and of Toulouse III University, won<\/p>\n\n<strong>a gold medal at the iGEM<\/strong>\n\n<p>(International Genetically Engineered Machine)<\/p>\n\n<strong> international competition in synthetic biology of the MIT and was nominated for its best human approach to the project<\/strong>\n\n<p>. The latter concerned the<\/p>\n\n<strong>preservation of the Lascaux cave<\/strong>\n\n<p>. Indeed, the invaluable cave paintings it contains are damaged by the action of bacterial and fungal microorganisms which threaten to make this heritage, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, disappear. The iGEM Toulouse team proposed a new biological approach to fight against these microorganisms. The project consists in taking advantage of<\/p>\n\n<strong>the bacterium <em>Bacillus subtilis<\/em>,\u00a0already present in the cave, by engineering the strain so as to improve its predation capacity and to make it capable of releasing antifungals<\/strong>\n\n<p>. The aim is to<\/p>\n\n<strong>restore the microbiological balance of the cave<\/strong>\n\n<p>in favour of bacteria that are harmless to the paintings.<\/p>\n\n<strong>The project, called Pal\u00e9otilis, was supported by TWB and partners of its consortium<\/strong>\n\n<p>.\r\n\r\nMore information:<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2016.igem.org\/Team:Toulouse_France\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/2016.igem.org\/Team:Toulouse_France<\/a>\n\n<em>Contact: V\u00e9ronique Paquet (<a href=\"mailto:paquet@insa-toulouse.fr\">paquet@insa-toulouse.fr<\/a>)<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth successive year, the iGEM Toulouse 2016 team, composed of students of INSA Toulouse and of Toulouse III University, won a gold medal at the iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) international competition in synthetic biology of the MIT and was nominated for its best human approach to the project . The latter concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_schema_org_content_json":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3447,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}