Acknowledgements

The following people are acknowledged for their guidance and support:

• Farren Isaacs, principal investigator
• Dan Spakowicz, Adam Trexler, Thihan Padukkavidana, Rebecca Brown, graduate student advisors
• Timothy Craggs, Jennifer Nguyen, and Martin Heisig, for helpful suggestions and guidance
• Nigel Grindley and Cathy Joyce, for use of lab space
• Integrated DNA Technologies, for sponsorship of a synthetic gene
• Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory, for sponsoring primers and sequencing
• Raymond and Beverley Sackler Institute, for material support
• Yale College Dean’s Office, for material support
• Yale Science and Engineering Association, for material support
• Departments of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Physics, and Biomedical Engineering, for material support
• Professors Peter Davies and Deborah Fass, for helpful comments and for providing AFP sequences