Thank you to all the professionals who advised us
Microbiology
Finn Stirling, Pamela Silver Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115 For letting us use the cryodeath kill-switch he invented. He gave us the sequence of the gene which we used as a base to develop our own design and shared a lot of advice, suggestions, and tips for our project.
Dr. Guillaume Dumesnil, Unité Pathogène des Infections Vasculaires, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris For allowing us to have access to his laboratory to realize our electrophoresis experiments.
Pr. Jean-Marc Ghigo, Unité Génétique des biofilms, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris For sharing his expertise about biofilms, discussions, protocols for biofilm culture, experimental design and for supplying a strain of GFP-fluorescent Staphylococcus aureus.
Nathalie Béchon, Unité Génétique des biofilms, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris For giving us some advice about our biofilm protocols, discussions and for providing us a solution that enabled to fix our biofilms in the 96-well plates.
Nolwenn Jouvenet, Team Génomique Virale et Vaccination, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris For lending us their 96-well plate reader