Acknowledgments

What we have achieved with BareCillus wouldn't have been possible without the help of many people. We would like to extend our gratitude to:

Our supervisors for their guidance, encouragement, advice, time, wisdom and iGEM know-how.

Our advisors for their great depth of advice in a variety of areas and their guidance in the approach of our lab-work, modelling and other areas inherent to iGEM.

In particular we would like to thank the Jeff Errington Research Group at Newcastle University. They provided us with the B. subtilis strain capable of transitioning to L-form state upon which our project is based. It is their [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/camb/staff/profile/jeff.errington#tab_publications published research] that our project has taken inspiration from – adapting the fruits of their research for the Synthetic Biology platform.

We would also like to thank Prof. Kenn Gerdes, who has a collaboration with Harvard, for providing us with the microfluidics chip we used.

And everyone else who lent a hand in the course of our project. All the work contained in this wiki is our own unless otherwise stated.

We would also like to thank the Edinburgh iGEM team for organizing a teleconference with Dr. Jane Calvert who helped us explore the ethical issues associated with our project.

Furthermore we'd like to extend a huge thank you to anyone who has helped us, who we have accidentally missed off the list!