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From 2011.igem.org

To Margarita Salas for kindly giving us her B. subtillis strain 168.
To Javier Ávalos for helping us to untangle the tedious web of bureaucracy necessary to have a lab we can call home where we can do our research.
To Debra Milton from Umeå University (Sweden), for giving us E.coli XL1-blue containing VanMN.
To Alan D. Grossman for his very kind help and for sending us several interesting strains of "B. subtillis" from so far away.