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ALPHANOV

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ALPHANOV is the New Aquitaine Technology Resource Centre specialising in optics and photonics.

We have been developing surface functionalization processes based on the fabrication of bio-inspired nanostructures by laser machining and texturing for several years. We are able to modify the surfaces of various materials (metals, plastics, glasses, crystals) to modify their optical reflectivity properties (from black to a holographic effect), bio-contamination, wettability or to improve their tribological performance.

Technological support :

From setting up collaborative projects to technological support for company creation, ALPhANOV assists you in your industrial projects.

Thanks to close relationships with research laboratories (LOMA, CELIA, LP2N, IMS, Trèfle, XLIM ...) and local photonic companies, ALPhANOV is involved throughout the innovation process:

  • Setting up collaborative projects: search for academic or industrial partners, consortium organisation, financial engineering.
  • Industrialization : ALPhANOV provides its partners with engineering skills to help them in the design and production phases of industrial products.
  • Starting a business : ALPhANOV provides entrepreneurs with a professional and technological environment in which to share ideas and solutions, validate concepts and develop prototypes.

ALPhANOV works in perfect synergy with other regional and national industrial development support actors:

  • the ALPHA - Route des Lasers & des Hyperfréquences competitiveness cluster;
  • Aquitaine's technology parks, which provide strategic support for business creation, in particular Bordeaux Unitec;
  • the SEML Route des Lasers capable of meeting the real estate needs specific to the sector;
  • Aquitaine Science Transfert is responsible for technology transfer between laboratories and industry;
  • the ministry of research ;
  • Bpifrance;
  • the Regional Council of New Aquitaine and all the local authorities involved in the financing of industrial projects.

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MIBELLE BIOCHEMISTRY

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Mibelle Biochemistry designs and develops unique, high-quality active ingredients for the cosmetics industry, based on natural substances and high scientific expertise.

This independent business unit within the Mibelle Group was founded in 1995 by Dr Fred Zülli in Buchs, Switzerland.

In a short period of time, Mibelle Biochemistry has built an excellent reputation worldwide as a creator of innovative active ingredient concepts and a true expert in the fields of biotechnology and biochemistry. Its wide range of active ingredients is available in over 50 countries worldwide.

Our slogan "Inspired by nature - Realized by science" reflects our philosophy.

Our experts transform natural plant compounds into bioactive cosmetic ingredients. Our R&D team uses encapsulation technologies that guarantee optimal bioavailability and thus ensure maximum effectiveness of the active ingredients.

Commitment to sustainable development is at the heart of our business and continues to grow.

Visio-Conference Biomim'SCOPE, BIOMIMÉTISME ... & COSMÉTIQUE - Review of trends, news and prospects, and presentation of the latest bio-inspired innovations by Mibelle. With Vincent Briffaut, Sales Director France, and Stéphane Poigny, R&D Director France, Mibelle Biochemistry France.

BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND BIO-INSPIRATION OR THE FUTURE OF THE COSMETIC REVOLUTION. Vincent Briffaut interviewed by Nicolas Doze on BFM BUSINESS.

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Vincent BRIFFAUT
Sales Director France

Mibelle Group Biochemistry | Mibelle AG | 17-21 Rue St Fiacre | 75002 Paris | France

Tel +33 1 73 06 23 43

PIERRE-HENRI GOUYON

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Professor at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)AgroParisTech and ENS. Team "Genetic systems, adaptation & domestication "Laboratory: " Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity MNHN-CNRS, UMR 7205, Department of "The Environment". Systematics & Evolution "

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Pierre-Henri Gouyon is a geneticist and evolution specialist, born on 25 December 1953. He was admitted to Agro (Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, now AgroParisTech) in 1972, became an agricultural engineer in 1975, obtained a post-graduate doctorate in ecology at the University of Montpellier in 1976, then obtained a doctorate in genetics from Agro in 1978, a doctorate in science from the University of Montpellier in 1982 and a DEA in Philosophy at the University of Letters of Montpellier in 1984.

Recruited as a teacher at Agro in 1976, he was a professor at the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay) from 1988 to 2005 and theÉcole Polytechnique from 1994 to 2008 (vice-chair of the Biology Department 2001-2006).

He has held various responsibilities on the Life Sciences Departmental Council of the CNRS (Deputy Scientific Director in 2000-2001). He has been a member of the CNRS operational committee for ethics in the life sciences, the National Council of Universities, the National Committee for Scientific Research, the ANR "Ecosystems and Sustainable Development" committee, the Scientific Council of the CNRS Jacques Monod Lectures and the INSERM ethics committee.

He was managing editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology "(1992-1996), journal of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, co-director of the Master's degree course " Sustainable Agricultural Development"Director of the UPS-CNRS-ENGREF laboratory of "Ecology, Systematics and Evolution "(1997-2005) and head of the botany team within the CNRS-MNHN OSEB UMR (2006-2011).

He is currently a professor at National Museum of Natural History (since 2005), theAgroParisTech (since 1988), in Sciences Po (since 2009) and ENS (since 2012) and carries out his research in the the botany team in the UMR MNHN-CNRS OSEB (7205). He was elected in 2008 to the Academia Europaea (London).

He lectures extensively on issues related to evolution, genetics, ecology, biodiversity and bioethics. He is widely involved in debates concerning science-society relations in general. More particularly, he is concerned on the one hand with the social consequences of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution on our perception of living beings and on the other hand with the cultivation of transgenic plants (Grenelle in 2007, Citizens' Conference in 1998, Economic and Social Council in 2002, debates with members of parliament -French and European- and experts, the General Planning Commission, the Economic Analysis Council, conferences in various places in France and elsewhere -Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Tunisia, Denmark, Canada, USA, Japan, Ecuador, Bolivia...-interviews...). He belongs or has belonged to various national committees related to Science in Society issues (CNL, Biovigilance, Biomolecular Engineering Commission, Sustainable Development, Grenelle de l'Environnement, High Authority on GMOs, Scientific Council of CRIIGENVice President of Vivagora...) and was the rapporteur for Group 1 (Research & Society) to national research conferences from 2004. He chairs the Scientific Council of the Think-Tank of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation

He is a Knight of the Legion of Honour and of the Palmes Académiques.
He was awarded the American Society of Ecology's 2013 " William Skinner Cooper Award"He was awarded the "Grand Prix" by the French Society of Ecology in 2016 for the whole of his research work and for his involvement in questions of the relationship between science and society. He received the Radio France "Lire dans le noir" prize for his CD on evolution.

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GABRIELLE HALPERN

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A graduate of the École normale supérieure and a research associate, she holds a doctorate in philosophy. After a period at the University of Paris-Dauphine and at the Catholic Faculty to learn about organisational strategy and canon law respectively, she lived in Jerusalem for a year to study the Talmud.

On her return, and in parallel with her thesis in philosophy, she worked successively in the cabinets of the Minister of the Economy and Finance, the Secretary of State for Research and Higher Education and the Minister of Justice, as "Adviser on Foresight and Discourse", for nearly four years.

Development Director, then Deputy Managing Director of a start-up incubator, she is currently Associate Director of an international group, which advises companies and public institutions.

His research work includes the issue of the hybrid.

" All centaurs! In Praise of Hybridization

Or how can we think about nature?  "

We have built our lives around our fear of the unpredictable, the contradictory, the hybrid, embodied in the frightening figure of the Centaur. The whole history of humanity is one of repression, rejection, the attempt to eliminate the unknown, the uncertain, everything that cannot fit into our boxes a priori. This means that an important part of reality - of nature - does not fit into our boxes and that we therefore miss it, without realising it. What is in crisis, above all, is our relationship with reality, since we have lost contact with it, and with nature at the same time.

To reconcile ourselves with it, we would have to completely revise the way we approach it and do away with the rigid rationality that has led us from humanism to anthropocentrism and then to transhumanism. By adopting a hybrid way of thinking that corresponds to the hybrid character of reality - of nature - we will gradually realise how much we have to gain by becoming centaurs...

Press release

Conquering the hybrid: the victory of the centaurs?
Presentation at Biomim'expo 2020

Published articles :

CONFINEWS / Gabrielle Halpern section / series of articles

L'Opinion / 03 MARCH 2020 / Hybridization: the new challenge for companies!

Reform / 23 APRIL 2020 / Covid-19 or the return of the unpredictable

Fondation Jean Jaurès / 09 JANUARY 2019 / Cubism and social networks: the world at a time of many truths

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THIERRY DUTOIT

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Thierry Dutoit is a research director at the CNRS within the Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et Ecologie (IMBE), of which he is deputy director. His research focuses on coexistence processes and assembly rules in Mediterranean herbaceous plant communities.

Thierry Dutoit is particularly interested in the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances over the very long term via approaches that combine paleoecology and historical ecology. The results of his work are applied to ecological restoration or ecosystem rehabilitation, particularly via bio-inspiration, which involves the management of certain key species known as "ecosystem engineers", from bacteria to large herbivores.

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Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (IMBE)

Contribution to Biomim'week 2020 :

Restoring nature: an ant's work!

In August 2009, a ruptured oil pipeline in the Crau plain in the Bouches-du-Rhône department caused hydrocarbon pollution in the heart of a national nature reserve. There, for the first time in the world, we experimented with the transplantation of harvester ant founding queens to accelerate the restoration of the soil and vegetation on the land that had been rehabilitated. Eight years later, our results show that this operation has really made it possible to increase soil fertility and accelerate the return of the steppe-like vegetation, unique in the world, which pre-existed where ant nests are present, thus making it possible to validate this bio-inspired process on an operational ecological engineering scale.

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  • Report in the series Nature=Future / "Agronomic ants" / December 2019 /

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ELWAVE

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ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTION AND NAVIGATION

ELWAVE DESIGNS, MANUFACTURES AND SELLS ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTION, NAVIGATION AND CHARACTERISATION SYSTEMS BASED ON INNOVATIVE "ELECTRIC SENSE" TECHNOLOGY.

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ELWAVE, electrical sensory detection

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ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTION AND NAVIGATION

ELWAVE DESIGNS, MANUFACTURES AND SELLS ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTION, NAVIGATION AND CHARACTERISATION SYSTEMS BASED ON INNOVATIVE "ELECTRIC SENSE" TECHNOLOGY.
Simple to use, robust and adaptable for all types of vehicles and robots, ELWAVE solutions provide real-time 360° perception capability in complex underwater and industrial environments.
ELWAVE provides solutions adapted for different environments and operational constraints (congestion, depth at which used, etc.).

Bio-inspired ?

ELWAVE develops solutions based on electrical sensory perception, known as "electric sense", developed since 2007 by the biorobotics research group in Mines-Telecom Atlantique Institute.

ELWAVE technology takes its inspiration from the sensory mode used by tropical freshwater fish (African mormyrids and South American gymnotiforms), which have developed electrical sensory perception in order to move around, capture their prey and communicate with each other in an environment where vision and sonar (acoustic communication - echolocation) are inefficient.

Electrical sensory perception is based on sensing disturbances produced by the environment in an electric field generated by fish: these fish emit a 360° electric field around themselves which is disturbed by obstacles in their habitat, by other fish and by predators. The electro-receptor cells in their skin detect, measure and record these disturbances to create a three-dimensional image of their surroundings at any given moment.

Releases :

INSTITUT CARNOT - MINES / ELWAVE equips robots with a 6th sense with its "electric sense" technology

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  • ELWAVE
    ITM Atlantic Business Centre
    2 rue Alfred Kastler, CS40617
    44300 NANTES Cedex 3
  • contact@elwave.fr
  • tel-icon+33 (0)2 51 85 87 71

AMSILK, the spider silk

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AMSilk produces and distributes increasing volumes of high-quality silk biopolymers for use in textile products, medical devices and cosmetics.
One of the most amazing and revolutionary bio-inspired innovation. Now available with a wide range of applications : footwear, apparel, technical textiles, fashion, automotive, aviation ...
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ALGOSOURCE

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The AlgoSource group, a recognised world expert in microalgae, offers a complete range of services from production engineering to the industrial valorisation of microalgae. Its unique know-how covers all the processes involved in the production and transformation of microalgae and provides an integrated vision for its industrial clients.

AlgoSource is developing 4 main areas for its industrial clients and consumers:

  • Production of microalgae in controlled systems (photobioreactors)
  • Biorefinery engineering (custom extraction of molecules)
  • Production and sale of natural products "made in France" (see our Alpha Biotech shop)
  • Integrated system design (design of photobioreactors from 1 litre to several m3)

Olivier Lépine's speech at Biomim'expo 2018:

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Releases :

L'Echos de la presqu'île / 25 FEB 2019 / Saint-Nazaire: With its micro-algae, Algo Source is thinking bigger

Les Echos / 29 JANV 2019 / AlgoSource bets on spirulina

OUEST FRANCE / 24 JAN 2019 / Agriculture. The algae breeding start-up sees life in green in Saint-Nazaire

OUEST FRANCE / 17 APR 2018 / In Saint-Nazaire, micro-algae could make the port greener

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