Acknowledgements

• We would like to thank the Nikon Imaging Center at the University of Heidelberg for giving us access to their facility and being of great help for imaging and analysis.

• Many thanks to the DKFZ and BioQuant at the University of Heidelberg for providing pipetting robot, real-time RT-PCR facility and their great help with data analysis.

• We would like to thank Dr. Nathan Brady, BioQuant, for his invaluable advise on pathways involved in the regulation of apoptosis, and for the inspiration he gave to our project

• We would like to thank Dr. Karl-Heinz Glatting, Dr. Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt and Oliver Pelz, DKFZ, for their great help with promotersweep.

• We would like to thank the Runz group at the Institute of Human Genetics (University of Heidelberg) and especially Jessica Schilde for help with SREBP induction.

• We would like to thank Kai Ludwig for his help with our project's face to the public.

• We would like to thank the entire Heidelberg 2008 iGEM team for always offering help and advise.

• We would like to thank Jürgen Reymann for offering great help with microscopy image analysis on very short notice.

• We would like to thank Dr. Veytaute Starkuviene, BioQuant, for providing us with plasmids for isolating the sequences of our localization signals and fluorescent proteins.

• We would like to thank Dr. Joel Baudouin, BioQuant/DKFZ, for providing us with plasmids for isolating the sequences of our localization signals and fluorescent proteins.

• We would like to thank the Schmidt group at the DKFZ, especially Ina Kutschera for helping us with LAM-PCR and providing us with all material needed.

• And special thanks to all our advisors from Prof. Eils group!

• We want to thank the 2009 Brown iGEM team for "testing" our wiki design :-)