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 .
• We thank the Maerkl lab for bearing our presence in the lab. :)
• Thank you to Aristea Massaras for giving us the authorization to use her nice pictures.
• 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