At the CRI, students create their own discussion clubs on subjects of their choice. Each club unites students and researchers on a voluntary basis interested in deepening their knowledge in a particular interface with Life Sciences through open dialogue across disciplines.
The clubs are open for all those who wish to participate providing they keep the spirit of the CRI: mutual sharing of ideas and thoughts, respecting all participants and ensuring the leading role of the students in managing and orienting the club.
The minimal requirements for a Club are: one student as 'club mediator', at least three motivated students, planification of at least 5 meetings before launching the club, documentation of their discussion made public through the club's wiki, with the possibility of having a restricted access area for internal discussions as well as for copyright protection where necessary.
Thanks to the generous support of the Liliane Bettencourt program, the CRI provides all necessary logistics, including invitation of guest speakers and the possibility of setting up students-organised conference by the club members.
Night Science Club
Permanent club participants: Antoine Decrulle, Paul Villoutreix, Clément Vulin
Set goals:
François Jacob made a distinction between "Day Science" and "Night Science". "Day Science" is the precise and logical science done at the bench in the lab; it's the science that can be read in the scientific articles. On the contrary, "Night Science" corresponds to the ideas we can formulate during the night; it corresponds to the, not necessarily true, ideas that emerge outside of the rigorous scientific work.
The aim of our proposal is to develop and extend this "Night Science" to groups of people. The idea would be to create the condition for formulating these informal ideas in an informal way. The first step would be to have a calm and relax space to discuss or a meaningful place which can generate informal scientific discussions. Everyone interested in this Night Science should be allowed to participate as several points of views are helpful to see unseen aspects of certain scientific topics.
Biophysics Journal Club - Today's biophysics
Club mediator: Frédéric Daste
Participants: Sophie Bouccara, Iris Marangon, Jordan Monnet, Ewa Zlotek-Zlotkiewicz,
Set goals:
A4 paper colored journal in a two-columns page setup with :
* First page with contents
* Brief edito
* Article analysis
* Interview of a research team with a topic of interest for the journal
* Presentation of a experimental setup in biophysics with advices of a scientific expert
* One page presenting a part of the history of the field (for instance, discovery a new experiment)
* One humourous page (enigma, games etc.)
* A back cover with an calendar for meeting and seminars
Fabelier
Maintainers: Antoine Mazières (SCIRE), Samuel Huron (INRIA)
Set goals:
The aim of this club is to enjoy software hacking, and explore all its possible forms,
structures and usages, being some Netart, some tiny and useful web services, some socially engaged features, etc. We want to focus on realizing prototypes and make them available to everyone (Open-Source, Creative Commons content), while create a real incentive for participants to go further in their quest through Research (Entrepreneurship or Academic, or else...).
We also enjoy very much inviting people to talk about their work, product, technologies, vision (more than 30 workshops last year). During the 2 past years we've built a community of 150 participants online (Mailing-List) and 5 to 15 regular IRL members. We are glad to share this community with other projects related to our topics such as Copyleft, Robotics and Fablab.
Robotics/Fablab (Fabelier):
Maintainers: Samuylov Denis, Kevin Lhoste
Set goals:
Our goal is to explore the knowledge about electronics towards building a robot, his
structure and the algorithms that will determine his behaviour. One of our purposes will be to find the right balance between educational, scientific and practical characteristics of the robots.
In order to answer to a formal deadline, we decided to participate in several international competition of Robotics.
Life is Copyleft (Fabelier):
Maintainer: Benjamin Driquez
Set goals:
We are a group of young scientists that strongly believe in free science. Particularly, we do think that we shouldn't have to pay for software that are needed for science as the quality of a research shouldn't be ruled by grants!!!
We want to build up a club where members/participants, using free operative system, will learn the basics of programming (C, C++ and Python), writing report and making presentation. We will also introduce some image processing as well as data analysis free software (R, ImageJ, OpenCV ...). We will start by introducing the idea of open source and our aim by the end of this year is to make all members switching to open source software.
One originality of our club is that members will learn from each other, so that, we will
build up a big "RER" where people will learn how to teach and to learn.
IVAI In vitro Artificial intelligence
Secretary: Jérémie Sibille
Set goals:IVAI will focus this year with the motivated members on the potential protocols to suggest a first neuronal culture model where artificial intelligence process will be possible. For this purpose we'll perform a journal club all along the coming years to better know the constrains of the feature we want to implement in this culture. The reproduction of the classical neuronal culture on MEA will be the first preliminary achievement. Materials for the monitoring of the culture should be founded. Then we would like to add onto this culture a dopaminergic compartment that could (if possible) innerve the whole culture, and thus give a physiological signal for reward of punishment to the neuronal culture. Many difficulties should be solve, and different field of expertise have to work together. That's why we dream of a localisation of the first experiments in the CRI, where interdisciplinary project are better understood and supported.
LearnitLab
Club mediator: Dor Garbash
Club treasurer: Yifan Yang
Other members: Antoine Mazieres, Aurelien Peilloux, Darja Dubravcic, Hassan Ahmed, Livio Riboli-Sasco, Jonathan Platkiewicz, Simon Bachelier, Clément Martin, Bertrand Viravong, Thibaut Labarre, Laurène Lebelt, Esteban Romero Frías, Mélina Gallopin
Set goals:
Learnit Lab is a center for workshops and idea making that translates new and alternative approaches for learning into action. It is a joint project with les nouveaux étudiants (The new students) movement, a group dedicated to create groups of self-directed learners in high education.
We want to achieve this goal by providing a physical as well as a virtual space to meet, exchange resources, conduct workshops and host lectures by thinkers and innovators in education. We would also like to build our group up to a summer project: A road trip workshop where we would take a bus on a seven day voyage while creating a project.
Psychohistory Club
Club mediator: Anaïs Bompard
Club treasurer: Axel Seguret
Other members: Vivien Szabo, Geoffroy Berthelot, Vicaire Du
Set goals:
The Psychohistory club is related to the novel Foundation published by Isaac Asimov in 1951. In this book, psychohistory is a discipline based on a wide range of scientific areas to predict the evolution of human societies. It uses human sciences, biology, ecology, and virtually every field able to give information on human population to make a mathematical description. In the model itself, references to thermodynamic, statistical laws, chaos theory and systemic are numerous; it is also considered as having common bases with cybernetics. Since Foundation parution, many scientific were interested in this subject, more or less relatively to the book. The club aim to develop an approach similar to psychohistory, based on scientific backgrounds for various researches fields.
Play HD: Creation of board games to teach science
Mediator: Adrien Bouclet
Participants: Alix Sauve, Isabelle Hedon, Yohan Farouz, Delphine Ladarre, Marie André
Set goals:
Work on the creation of scientific game to allow people learning science when they play. People won't need background to play those games but when they play they will learn some term, principle of different biological system, or different organism strategies or development.
Our final objective is to produce a game we can sell.
Secondary objective: We will also try to implement a research dynamic to make people thinking on research problematic or make them resolve research kind of problems.
Science Journalism: Naked Science
Club treasurer: Fanny Bernardon
Members: Asma Safsaf, Aïmen El Assimi, Maxime Borry, Lucy Kundura, Adrien Duchadeuil, Perla Bokobza, Jing Jin, Adrien Engel, Ramine Mecheri, Hester Velthuis, Nader Yatim
Set goals:
The main aim of the club would be to carry on a blog, dealing with science in general, and promoting our studies. It would, in majority, deal with science actuality, with a big folder, and other smaller papers composed by portraits of PhD students, report of a laboratory visit, funny micro-sidewalk and science articles critics. It would also present the CRI actuality by gathering the others club events, in a readable way.
Furthermore, we would try to meet journalists and newsrooms so that they could advise us as for our blog or our studies.
This club would help us to improve ourselves, as for writing, filming, taking pictures, and even speaking English. Moreover the CRI environment would be favorable to this club since it proposes conferences, and gathers researches and teachers with long experiences and journalists.
Synthetic biology journal club
Organizers: Antoine Decrulle, Aleksandra Nivina, Raphaël Pantier, Yifan Yang
Set goals:
The idea of the club is to promote synthetic biology among students of different levels and disciplines (physicist, biologist, engineer... and create a community for people interested in this subject . The main activities will be: In a first time learning what is synthetic biology, reading and discussing recent publications in the field to keep us up to date, sharing ideas and much more. The club is also the incubator of the Paris iGEM team by permitting people interested by the competition to get acquainted and brainstorm for the next year's project. However this year we would like to keep a journal club activity in order to permit people that are not specially interested by iGEM to stay involve all along the year. Most importantly, the participants will be incited to actively participate in the discussions, prepare presentations on a selected topic, possibly work in a team. Another goal of the club will be the creation of the first association of French iGEM participant that has for goal the organization of an annual conference regrouping all French iGEM teams.
Taddou Club
Mediator: Ariane Le Gros, Antoine Frénoy
Treasurer: Raphaël Pantier
Senior adviser: Dusan Misevic
Set goals:
Our aim is to create a game wherein gamers can manipulate their own species in a changing environment with limited resources, thus 'pulling the strings' of life and evolution. The players will be competing with each other, taking advantage of only virtual spaces, somehow mimicking competitive ecological niches.
Their scores will be compared to the scores of a simulation of natural selection, directly evaluating the performance of each theory.
Our designed game will allow the players to understand the basic rules of natural selection, but also give them a better sense of the contemporary ecological challenges our planet is facing.
Furthermore, evolutionary biologists can take advantage of the huge amount of complex data that the game will produce to investigate both natural selection and intelligent design.
The Power-Nap Club
Mediator: Maxime Elbaz
Participants: Maria Camila Pulido Puentes, Ewa Zlotek-Zlotkiewicz, Kevin Yauy, Pierre-Arthur Guétat
Set goals:
We propose to have a closer look on our sleeping habits.
We divided our goals in three main categories:
A- Theory of sleep : the fundamental basis of sleep
B- Identification of our sleeping habits
C- Therapy and prevention