{"id":3666,"date":"2016-07-04T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/insights\/actualites\/actualite\/support-to-the-igem-2016-toulouse-team\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:52:45","slug":"support-to-the-igem-2016-toulouse-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/insights\/blog\/news\/support-to-the-igem-2016-toulouse-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Support to the iGEM 2016 Toulouse team"},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">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 <strong>iGEM synthetic biology competition<\/strong> (International Genetically Engineered Machine), organised by the MIT (<a href=\"igem.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/igem.org<\/a>).<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">This year the subject chosen by the team from Toulouse focuses on the <strong>preservation of Lascaux Cave<\/strong>. The inestimable rock paintings that it shelters are endangered by the action of bacterial and fungal micro-organisms. The project is to <strong>create a strain of <em>Bacillus subtilis<\/em> in such a way as to improve its capacity of predation and make it capable of releasing antifungals<\/strong> and thus to restore the microbiological equilibrium inside the cave.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">As every year, <strong>TWB provides financial support for this project<\/strong> led by lecturer-researchers from UT3 and INSA (LISBP).<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Possibility of business sponsorship: <\/span>\n\n<a style=\"line-height: 1.5; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"mailto:igemtoulouse2016@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">igemtoulouse2016@gmail.com<\/a>\n\n<em>Contact: V\u00e9ronique Paquet (<a href=\"mailto:paquet@insa-toulouse.fr\" target=\"_blank\">paquet@insa-toulouse.fr<\/a>)<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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-3666","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\/3666","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=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}