Acknowledgements

General support

Mrs Marie-France Radigois helped us with the administrative part of the project.

Mr André Pexieder is letting us use his beloved lab for our project.

Mrs Celia Lutherbacher helped us with the documentation.

Laboratory techniques

Mr Arne Seitz and Mr José Artacho taught us how to use the microscopes at EPFL's Bioimaging and Optics Facility

Mr Marc Chambon taught us how to use the plate readers at EPFL's Biomolecular Screening Facility.

Mr Julien Dorsaz and Mr Kaspar Suter trained us on the different clean room processes we needed to know to make the masks and wafers for our microfluidic chips

Human practices support

Mr Yann Heurtaux, Mr Clément Epié, and Mr Nicolas Loubet, are co-founders of biohackerspaces in France and Switzerland. They sought us out and came to visit, leading to presentations about iGEM and our project at the Hackuarium in Lausanne.