“To set up a hand-picked team for each of your projects.”
The Symbioteam is us! Four life-science engineers, all with solid experience in journalism, supported by a group of freelancers with whom we have long-term relationships.
Marie Martenot
Founding partner - Agro engineer, editor
Valérie Duflot
Founding partner - Agro engineer, editor
Isabelle Bordes
Employee of the decade - Agro engineer, writer
Gana Castagnon
Freelance graphic designer - Illustrator
Cyrille Costa
PhD in human nutrition, freelance writer
Audrey Zeller
Freelance graphic designer
Caroline Driot
Veterinarian, freelance writer
Morgane Giardino
Freelance graphic designer
John Simpson
Consultant, English-speaking translator
Laurence Depezay
Agro engineer specialising in nutrition and agro-food, freelance writer
Valérie Macioce
Freelance writer on clinical research and epidemiology
Caroline Guinot
Agricultural engineer, writer
Marie Martenot
Founding partner - Agro engineer, editor
Valérie Duflot
Founding partner - Agro engineer, editor
Her "life" before Symbiotik : agricultural and health journalist, editor-in-chief, then managing editor for a medical press group. She co-founded Symbiotik in 2009.
Her leitmotif : « "There are no problems, only solutions." »
Her taste for challenge1 and her dual skills in science and strategy enable her to identify tailor-made solutions, in line with your values and objectives, that will make your communication fruitful 2 at the minimum expense3.
1: capable of dismantling of a wood-burning stove, a lock... or all the decorations of child’s escape game room in 2 minutes flat
2: gardening enthusiast, pruning and grafting fruit trees
3 : wrote a personal finance column for several years
Isabelle Bordes
Employee of the decade - Agro engineer, writer
Gana Castagnon
Freelance graphic designer - Illustrator
Her "life" before Symbiotik: after 12 years as assistant Art Director and as the person responsible for producing the initial sketches and storyboards at a Paris advertising agency, she went freelance. She works as graphic designer primarily for newspaper and magazine publishers as well as other agencies besides Symbiotik. She has been working with us since the 1990s.
The sentence that makes her happy (don't ask us why!): "Apokoiynou is a syntactic polyphony created by an indeterminacy of division due to the absence of a disambiguating mark."
Passionate about computer graphics, for which she brings particular eye for detail1 , she knows how to both oil the wheels2 of the layout process in order to meet the demands of the client and ensure that the graphic charter is flawlessly respected, thus preventing any drift in a publication’s layout.
1 : won a client's challenge to discreetly slip a small rabbit into every infographic he ordered
2 : at the same time, she lives in the land of sunflowers and foie gras
Cyrille Costa
PhD in human nutrition, freelance writer
Audrey Zeller
Freelance graphic designer
Caroline Driot
Veterinarian, freelance writer
Morgane Giardino
Freelance graphic designer
John Simpson
Consultant, English-speaking translator
Laurence Depezay
Agro engineer specialising in nutrition and agro-food, freelance writer
Valérie Macioce
Freelance writer on clinical research and epidemiology
Her "life" before Symbiotik: following initial experience in a large food company, she has been working at the University Hospital of Montpellier since 2011, where she contributes to drafting research protocols and scientific publications. She has been collaborating with Symbiotik since 2020.
Her motto: "Beware of shortcuts!" (when writing briefing notes)
Passionate about nutrition1, she is able to digest2 a mountain3 of publications to keep abreast of the news in the field of health. keen on epidemiology and rigorous, she endeavors in her writings to remain faithful to the publications she consults.
1: she can't resist reading the entire label before buying any food product!
2: along with a few squares of top-quality chocolate in the process…
3: where she likes to recharge her batteries both in summer and winter
Caroline Guinot
Agricultural engineer, writer
Her "life" before Symbiotik: after a stint in agricultural journalism (CIP group), she worked for 14 years as an environment manager and then as a Societal Issues manager in the Livestock and Meat sector (INTERBEV). Now, she is a freelance consultant on CSR implementation as well as being a freelance writer for Symbiotik.
Her favorite phrase: "You can be green and love meat: it's all about balance."
Originally a cow phobic1, Caroline took the bull by the horns and became passionate about the world of animal husbandry. She specializes in the environment and grazes2 the field of CSR as applied to the agricultural and agri-food sectors. In the end, it is a question of communicating societal expectations to the actors of the sectors and likewise communicating to the general public how these sectors function, all on a well-substantiated scientific basis. What she likes on a daily basis: imagining stories and systems adapted to people and situations3.
1 : she was charged by a cow while in the Corsican mountains
2: today she lives in the heart of the green meadows of Cantal
3 : her hobby is theatrical improvisation.