Major funding was provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fellowship support was provided by Amgen Scholars (Victoria Hsiao and Doug Tischer), Caltech SURF (Fei Chen, Allen Lin, and Robert Ovadia), and the NSF (Josh Michener)
Materials
Strain JI377 was provided by Professor Jim Imlay
The phage λcm was a gift from Dr. Sankar Adhya
Dr. Sidney Cox provided the lactose-inducible promoter B4