École Boulle & CRI
Projects | 2018
Minima
Pauline Jourdan, Esther Bapsalle, Naiane Ribeiro Rios
Minima is a set of ceramic and glass tools, which senses DNA signatures using a blend of enzymes, nutrients, and specific DNA sequences. The result is a next-generation household appliance that produces a color-change reaction when a specific ingredient’s DNA signature is detected.
instructors
Marguerite Benony
Marguerite Benony is a Ph.D student in Design in Paris, investigating the future of research laboratories in Life Sciences at Paris Diderot University. She questions, by an anthropological description, what is a research laboratory today, looking at its past forms and its fictional representation, in order to think the forms of tomorrow.
Jake Wintermute
Jake Wintermute is a researcher at the CRI in Paris, where he teaches Introduction to Synthetic Biology for Master’s students. He is the creator and lead teacher for syntheticbiology1.com, a free open online course. His research interests include the biology of aging, genetic circuits to support drug discovery, and the human skin microbiome.