of students win prestigious awards for their research on violets
Six Toulouse students from the University of Toulouse III and INSA Toulouse won the international synthetic biology competition iGEM 2021. They created a sustainable biotechnological system capable of reproducing the scent of violets by microorganisms.
This is the very first time that a French team has won the competition in the flagship under 23 category. From November 4 to 14, 2021, six Toulouse students (from the University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier and INSA Toulouse) took part in the international synthetic biology competition iGEM 2021. This competition brings together 350 teams from the best schools and universities of the world. This leads several thousand students to create biological systems responding to societal issues.
The Toulouse students’ project? Create a sustainable biotechnological system capable of reproducing the scent of violets by microorganisms. After several months of preparation and days of competition, the verdict is in: their project climbs to 1st place on the podium!
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Already crowned with a title of vice-world champion last year, the Toulouse team, made up this year of six students (UT3 Master Biotechnology / Faculty of Science and Engineering and INSA Toulouse – Department of Biochemical Engineering) has once again brilliant at the international synthetic biology competition iGEM.
The 2021 team was supervised by researchers, teacher-researchers, doctoral students from the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI – CNRS / INRAE ​​/ INSA Toulouse), from the Center de Biologie Intégrative (CBI – CNRS / UT3) in Toulouse , and the Plant Science Research Laboratory (University of Toulouse, CNRS, UT3, Toulouse INP).
After months of reflection, experimentation, analysis and programming, the students presented their work to the international judges of the competition.
At the end of the competition, the team achieved the feat of reaching the first place on the podium, succeeding Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2020 and NCKU-Tainan (Taiwan) in 2019!
This historic result demonstrates the excellence of biotechnology training as conducted in France, particularly in Toulouse.
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