GenoRobotics in collaboration with Plankton Planet, is taking part in Atlantea, a sailboat expedition organized by the Sailowtech association serving as a proof of concept to test user friendly and cost effective protocols, tools and methodologies, in collaboration with the Plankton Planet initiative.

After 3 years of laboratory development, our new protocol allows for the first time the rapid processing of a plant sample from sampling to DNA sequencing without major laboratory equipment. This innovation now needs to be tested and used in the field, identifying its limitations and validating its value for botanical field studies

In order to gain autonomy, the associative entity of GenoRobotics is formalized. Its role is to set up expeditions to test the tools developed in the framework of the interdisciplinary project.

GenoRobotics becomes an EPFL interdisciplinary project associating students to engineers and scientists

The project combined now two objectives: the technical development and a pedagogical impact

We elaborated, in collaboration with the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, an automated device based on the Madagascar expedition results.

This portable instrument can autonomously extract DNA from a plant sample in harsh environment with limited power consumption.