Acknowledgements and Contributions

We would like to thank everybody who has helped and assisted us in the process of making this project a reality. We came up with the idea of constructing a bistable switch and we appreciate all the support and feedback that we have received from everyone in building 301 at DTU.

• A very special thanks goes out to associate professor Chris Workman, associate professor Mogens Kilstrup and professor Peter Ruhdal Jensen for getting our group together and for their expert guidance and advise.
• Also a special thanks goes to Post.Doc Sebastien Lemire for invaluable experimental and theoretical advice and practical help, and to PhD student Hassan Hartman for invaluable experimental advice and practical help.
• Many thanks again goes to master student Jacopo Martini, PhD student Emmanouil Papadakis and yet again to associate professor Chris Workman for taking time out of their busy schedules to help us with GFP measurements with the BioLector.
• A very special thank you goes out to last years DTU iGEM team for all their advice and help that we received during the entire process.
• Thank you to assistant professor Sergio Rossell for advice on the modeling of our system as well as Flemming Hansen for his expertise in fluorescent proteins and Bjarne Albrektsen for practical help in the laboratory.