SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Marthe Colotte
Platform Operations Manager
Imagene
Marthe Colotte is the Industrial Platform Operations Manager at Imagene, where she is in charge of the service platform of extraction and encapsulation of nucleic acids for room temperature storage (management, technical development, customer service, project leader for LIMS implementation, and more). Prior to this role, Marthe was title R&D project leader at Imagene. She earned her PhD in Room Temperature DNA Stability from Bordeaux University; https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=eenuCKcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Related Sessions
Storing Data over Millennia. Long term Room Temperature Storage of DNA.
The most expensive factor in traditional archival storage is that it is not durable and, thus, over the years, it is necessary to do many migrations due to degradation and technology obsolescence. DNA reading technology, due to the immutable format of the DNA molecule, will not be obsolete, mitigating this obsolescence. However low cost DNA storage does come with some imperatives. Indeed DNA outside the cell, as with any biological molecule, will be subject to aggressive degradation factors, the main one being water. Even dehydrated, degradation due to water cannot be completely avoided because no plastic container is watertight. Imagene developed and industrialized a process allowing to keep, at room temperature, dehydrated DNA under an inert atmosphere in a hermetic stainless steel capsule. This standalone storage system allows to store and retrieve digital data coded in DNA for millennia.