Thank you!

• We thank Prof. Guido Favia and Dr. Claudia Damiani from the University of Camerino for the Asaia strains and their helpful advice and protocols on how to grow and manipulate Asaia.
• We would like to thank Prof. Bruno Lemaitre from EPFL for his advice and the possibility to conduct experiments with drosophila in his lab.
• Many thanks to Prof. Christian Doerig for having kindly provided us with the genomic DNA of Plasmodium falciparum .
• Many thanks to Vincent Pillaud for his help and advice in creating a scientifically reliable social study on synthetic biology for the Human Practices project

• We also would like to thank:
• Sebastian for letting us work in his lab and for his guidance throughout the whole iGEM competition.
• Bart for his lab too, his advice, his good humor and for seeing p25 in the gels when no one else could.
• Henrike for her incredible patience, for all her help and for being a really good friend to us all.
• The Maerkl lab for bearing our presence in the lab. You guys rock :)
• Onya for his patience whilst we redid the same experiments with drosophila again and again. And again.
• Carine for helping us in the lab, particularly with the billions of westerns and silver staining we did.
• Nicolas for many things, amongst them sharing his bench and ordering the pizzas.
• Effie for bringing sweet food each time we meet.
• Alex for donating his magnificent positive control and for being so reassuringly critical about the project. thanks man :)
• And last but definitely not least, we thank the pizza guy for... well... the pizzas.