Acknowledgements

General support

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

André Pexieder let us use his lab for our project.

Celia Lutherbacher helped us polish the documentation.

Içvara Barbier helped us for the brainstorming part of the project, participated in our meetings during the summer and occasionally came to help us in the lab.

Stéphane Karlen, Safety coordinator at the School of Life Science, gave us a course on laboratory safety before our project started and was available for any question during the summer.

Laboratory techniques

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

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

Julien Dorsaz and Kaspar Suter trained us on the different clean room processes we needed to know to make the masks and wafers for our microfluidic chips. You can find more information on EPFL's center of micronanotechnology here.

Francesco Piraino, Henrike Niederholtmeyer and Francesca Volpetti helped us with autoCAD designing, microfluidic chips fabrication an dgeneral help during our experiments.

Luisa Spisak from EPFL 2013 team helped us starting the project by showing us basic lab techniques.

Yeast handling and transformation techniques

Viesturs Simanis and Andrea Krapp helped us a lot to begin the yeast part of the project. They clarified many points regarding yeast transformations and gene regulation in S. Cerevisiae. They confirmed the feasibility of our project and validated the constructs we had designed.

Jean-Daniel Feuz, working in our adivsor Bart Deplancke's lab, gave us the ym4271 yeast strain as well as several protocols for yeast selective and unselective medium preparation.

Collaboration

Stephen Michnick and Jacqueline Kowarzyk sent us their split IFP plasmids, which we extensively used to test CpxR dimerization.

Stavroula Hatzios, Postdoc in Professor Waldor's laboratory sent us her renilla luciferase plasmids with CheY/CheZ, which helped us test the luminescence.

Human practices support

Yann Heurtaux, Clément Epié, and 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.

Fabien Goubet is a journalist for "Le Temps" newspaper. He came to visit us at EPFL and wrote an article about our project.

Yves Deluz, general director of the highschools from Canton de Vaud, sent us 4 classes of high school students for a day of discovery of synthetic biology at EPFL.

Françoise Bezençon, Fabio Moriggia, Jean-Pierre Lardet and Nabil Mastour, highschool biology teachers, collaborated with us and came with their students for the visit at EPFL.

Talya Saladino, Beatriz Camba, Valérie Jacot-Descombes and Céline Chable from Mediacom Events helped us for the logistics for the Human practices events on the campus.

Clara Marc from the Study Programs Promotion at EPFL introduced us to the swiss German highschool class from Bern and let us present our project to the students