Attributions

Scientific support

• Janina Linnick and Lukas Widmer advised us for the modeling. Janina Linnick also brought us in contact with some experts for the human practice part.
• Daniel Gerngross helped us to give our first steps in primer design, the technique for western bots and supported us with material and helpful advice.
• Sabine Österle gave us valuable advice when the data seem to go nowhere.
• Margaux Gastor helped us finding mistakes in our mammalian cell protocols and helped us with the manipulation of FACS and the microscope.
• Christian Jordi patiently showed us how maintain mammalian cells alive and did the PDMS chip.
• Erica Montani taught us how to properly manipulate the microscope and solved our doubts.
• Verena Jäggin explained how to use FACS and how to interpret the data.
• Markus Jeschek, Matthias Mehlig, Tino Frank, Johannes Thoma, Gaspar Morgado, Michael Junkin, Bartolomeo Angelici, Max Endele, and Martin Etzrodt offered us pieces of advice and material.
• Professor Sven Panke, Professor Jörg Stelling, Professor Yaakov Benenson and Professor Savas Tay critically reviewed our ideas and guided us through all the process.

General support

• Niels Bürckert emphasized the importance of safety during all stay in the lab.
• Myriam Moisan improved our logo design and gave us some further ideas.
• We thank all the participants in our interviews for their collaboration!
• The shop people kindly assisted us with the purchase of all the required materials.