New insights into autophagy regulation using yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rodrigues de Abreu, Susana
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Curriculum vitae
Acknowledgements
It is with great pleasure that I would like to acknowledge all the people that in a way or another helped me during the period of my PhD. Thank you to Prof. Judith Klumperman and Prof. Dick Hoekstra for accepting to be my promotors during my PhD; to Prof. Judith Klumperman, Prof. Kathrin Thedieck, Prof. Sven van Ijzendoorn, Prof. Daniele Guardavaccaro, Prof. Ida van der Klei and Dr. Muriel Mari for taking the time to be part of the reading and examining committee of my thesis, thank you!
Thanks to Dr. Claudine Kraft, Dr. Sascha Martens, Prof. Terje Johansen, Dr Symeon Siniossoglou, Prof. Kristin Baetz, Prof. Matthias Peter and Dr. Pedro Carvalho and their respective group members that gave me the opportunity to participate in different research projects and contributed with their expertise to the research work of this thesis. To Reggiori group: I will never forget the great moments with every one of you. I loved the retreats with Ungermann group, full of Science moments and also lots of fun with their group and among our group. The fantastic idea that I had on that 1st of April to prank everybody and
I know that deep down you really enjoyed it as much as I did enjoy your pranks eheheh. Thanks for supporting me with less nutritious and unhealthy food that was left normally and luckly in someone’s else office, where I would sneak in several times a day. And sorry for not be a food provider at the same level and only have some pale boring rice cookies, fruit or nuts. A big thanks for everybody who worked tireless to finish up the revision of my paper for submission when I was already away. Thanks for all the support, good humour, great conversations and for you great friendship! And thanks for the great surprise when I left the lab, I was really surprised with your great artistic creativity and the different points of view you had of my small and often misadventures hehe. Loved it! Thank you!! Fulvio I really enjoyed working with you and appreciated all your teachings, critics, and compliments. Thank you for giving me the great opportunity to do a PhD in your group in the field of autophagy and to allow me to contribute to diverse collaboration projects. Thanks for this unique chance to meet such great work colleagues and supervisor. You always blew everyone away with your
jokes at any unexpected moments he he. And thanks for taking also with sense of humour that memorable autoclave episode, when few times I would arrive late to the group meeting, my lab prank and many others. Thanks for all your support! Merci, Grazie, Danke shön! Jana, I really enjoyed our heated discussions about our results, and the possible explanation for them. Thank you for the great philosophical conversations, for your positivity and sense of humour, your funny unexpected spanish sentences which made me laugh so many times. Thanks for all the social moments together. For those great lab karaoke moments with Rodrigo, or when you guys showed up with unattended food and could not talk or eat because you wouldn’t stop laughing, and many other great moments… Thanks so much for being such a good friend and for that special oveja Shaun. Gracias! Rodrigo, thank you for our great conversations about everything and anything, for your always calm, supportive and humorous way of cheering everyone up. Your performance skills are undeniably a delight to everyone, we will never forget your moustache performance, or your fast shaking movements (movimento batedora)…thank you mostly for being such a nice friend! Obrigada! Muriel, thank you for all your support with the yeast electron microscopy, it was an honour to work with such a great electron microscopist. Thank you for your great sense of humour and for making, together with Rodrigo, Jana and me, a brilliant dance show on the Christmas party. I will always remember our conversations about many different interesting subjects and our gourmet food reviews especially in french. Thanks also for organizing fun activities for the group and most of all to be always a nice friend. Merci! Mario, you are such a supportive and positive colleague. I miss your jokes, especially about other people’s flaws, and mine included. Mariozinho, Marioski, Marioni, Marilo,… I hope you have already forgiven me for neutralizing your computer, and for making all those jokes about how eat grapefruit, or about Bayern, eheh. Well, thanks for being always there, Danke shön! Rodrigo, Jana and Muriel, thank you for keeping my portuguese, spanish and french skills alive. Idil , was really nice to work with you, it was only one year, but it felt like I met you for much longer. You are a very sweet and friendly person always ready for any
adventure and to help anyone. Thank you for nice hang outs and for being such a cheerful friend. Teşekkür ederim! Yingying, thanks for sharing your dumplings’ recipes, next time it will have to be a vegetarian version, eheh. You are one of the most funny, social and tireless persons I ever met. Thank you for always making our days more fun and for all your help. Thanks for being such a nice friend. 謝謝! Andri thank you for your kindness and friendly way of making us smile all the time. It is always very fun to talk to you. Danke shön! Terima Kasih! Nienke thanks for being always so nice with everybody and I know will always remember what you have for lunch eheh. Dank u wel! Franziska, thank you for all the good moments in the lab and for all the nice conversations and for organizing social activities in the department. Danke shön! Rubén, thank you for your spanish appetizers and for being always friendly and I can’t believe I missed your paella eheh. You are together with Franziska hardcore scientists and nice mates. Gracias! Ralph, thank you for sharing your endless musical knowledge and introducing us to Groningen culture. You are always so helpful, fun and friendly, and thanks for contaminating everybody with smiles. Dank u wel! I would also like to acknowledge all former group members and students: Alex, Eduardo, Esther, Henning, Joanna, Kerst-Jan, Mareike, Philip, Shanshan and Wouter, I only have good memories of all of you. Thank you for all the nice and fun moments together. In special thanks to Despina, thank you for your positivity, your warmth and great humour. Thanks for brightening everybody’s days with your lovely smile. Thank for your help in the lab in Utrecht and to keep always the lab running smoothly. Ευχαριστώ! And Janice for your yeast electron microscopy teachings, and for your calmness and your adventure spirit so inspiring. Thank you.
I would like to thank to all the collaborators of the Reggiori group that allowed me to participate in their different research projects. Thanks to Sinisouglou group, Baetz group, Carvalho group, Peter group
A big thanks to all the PIs and department colleagues, microscopy facilities members that I met in the Department of Biology at the UMC Utrecht, where I spent the longest part of my PhD and also at the UMC Groningen. And in particular I would like to thank my closest friends
that I met in UMC Utrecht. René thank you for your art work on our review figures, you really rule. Thanks for being so social and friendly and always like to gather everyone from the department together, you are like the social glue. Thanks for sharing your travel adventure stories. And for being so sweet person all the time. Danki! Dank u wel! Thanks also to Anne for all the nice lunches together and nice conversations, you are one of the sweetest persons I know. Dank u wel. Prajakta thanks for being so active and dragging me to any of your social activities, and also to accept no excuse to miss tennis classes, eheh. It was really great to have you around and share nice moments with you. धन्यवाद! Catalina, I really enjoyed our chats when we were sharing office and it was really nice that we kept in touch and meet again in Cambridge. So I am waiting for you to have some more projects around here. Thanks for being such a fun friend. Gracias. Maui, thanks for all the nice talks together, I really enjoy your company. You are this sweet person that a person can’t forget. Hope to meet you and Romain soon in London and maybe one day we will really meet at Santo António de Lisboa. Dank u wel. Thanks to all my co-members of the UMCU Biology Department activity committee, and of the Biomembranes PhD committee, was a great opportunity to work with you all to organize nice science and social meetings.
To my dear Utrechtian friends, I would like to give a thank you as your friendship feels me with joy and happiness every time I meet you and talk to you. Living in the Lange Nieuwstraat 74 was one of the best experiences I ever had and I would like to thank all the members that I have met there for making this such a great experience. Natasha I could write so much… you are a friend that was there for me all the way and we shared so much nice moments, so great conversations, so many philosophical discussions…My dear friend a special thanks to you, for being so supportive, comprehensive, positive, friendly and warm character. And for such great Indian food. धन्यवाद! Magda thank you for being such a nice friend. For always being so welcoming, so positive, so supportive and cheering everyone up with your big smile and high pitch screams. Group picture will be always your speciality
but your capacity to join your friends is even greater eheheh. Being your paranimf was for me the best opportunity to say thank you. Obrigada! Joana thank you for those fantastic soups at your place with nice chats about the meaning of life while listening to Indila or other great singers. Thank you for being such nice friend and know that my days in Holland would have been definitely more boring if I would not have met you. It was a super nice and fun surprise to have you in Cambridge. Obrigada! Wouter you probably are expecting the best acknowledgement, and you were right, here it goes, bla bla bla bla bla bla blab bla and blabla bla, thank you man! Dank u wel! Saskia it was great to live with you, as you are such a cheerful person. In LN we were always meeting up for dinners and tea time and chats with the entire group, thank you for always bring a nice humour together with your great cakes. And thank you for also being a great host, loved to meet you and Jurica in Oslo. Thanks Jurica for being so patient with us lool. Next time we will climb that mountain with even more energy and be careful with Wouter’s boomerang. Danke shön! Hvala vam! Welling it is a pleasure to meet such a hyperactive woman, thanks for your amazing karaoke demonstration, and for nice badminton game. Thomas thanks for all those experimental protein shake cakes and for keep on your great humour and for entertain us with your great dance moves. Thank you guys for all the nice moments together in your house meetings, birthday parties, game nights. And to share the best moments of your family with us. And your visit to Cambridge was a super nice surprise, we really enjoyed having you over! Terima kasih! Dank u wel! Hester it was great to have met you and thanks for being such a sweet friend. You are a hyperactive person that need challenges and I appreciate that you always have time for everybody and our get togethers were always fun and around a table of nice food. Thanks for welcoming us in Rotterdam and to always be ready for any adventure. Dank u wel! Stefano thank for your dirty jokes, your nice Italian dinners and all the fantastic soap operas that you were always describing us in LN. Such a crazy friendly guy, thank you for all the fun and nice friend you are. Grazie! Vinicius and Goðrún it is always nice to meet you and have nice chats with you in any occasion. I guess won’t be meeting you in Utrecht, and I wish
that your life in Iceland is even better. Definitely we will meet you there. Obrigada! Þakka þér fyrir!
Thanks also to the newer LN generation, that I met mostly after already leaving the house, but as we all know the LN spirit stays forever! Grazie Matteo for great singing, guitar and piano moments, and for your great treats. Dank u wel Caspar for bring fun along always and those nice pizzas. Merci Alex thanks for flying things around and for not falling asleep in the parties, mostly thanks for your humour. Ευχαριστώ Elena for those great cocktails, recording all the great LN party moments, and for bringing that great shining smile. Thank you, Aisha, for introducing me to the best british accent, for those memorable high pitchs and also for those great gins. Obrigada João thanks for introducing us the great green man, tell him he should be in any party, thanks for all crazy dance moves that entertain anyone. Dank u wel Eric for showing us the more traditional of dutch traditions and for make our integration smoother, and for that great cozy Sinterklass with our fake fire place. Thanks for fixing everything and make great jokes and cheer up everyone with your big smile. You all guys are real party buddies and more than that you are always very thoughtful, cheerful, friendly and really made the best parties ever of LN. Thanks also to Isa the Salsa hero, Tanmoy the dragon chef, Anshu the LN crasher with Porto wine, Amin the boss of the dance and best diets, thanks guys for the fun you always brought in the house! To everybody that lived those moments, thanks for those crazy baloon fights in summer, gym ball throwing, frisbee playing on the road, pizza, dinners on the street while people would pass and nicely say eet smakelijk, the trips to the beach, to Barcelona, to the south of Germany, all the dinners together in the house, pancake flipping, and the push the button moments, and that electric shock game! You thought I was done Wouter…how could I? Thanks for you great jokes and pranks all the time they really made (or not) everybody’s days so many times. Together with you and Thomas we manage to demonstrate that bikes can also carry heavy couches, and you manage to demonstrate that you can’t carry a huge tree on a bike, without damaging the bike (obviously not yours). Thanks to you and Natasha for keeping LN always so gezellig. And of course thanks for making Cesária Évora
song Sodade the most popular hit of the house and for so enthusiastically show us great documentaries. And for those espontaneous musical moments as the man of the seven music instruments. Thanks man, for being such great friend. Dank u wel! Nerys and Giuliano, thanks for all nice meet ups, for always inviting us over for lunches. Diolch! Grazie! Pilar and Fabrizio, thanks for hosting us at your place and for meeting in Cambridge it was really great to see you again. Grazie! Gracias! Thanks to you all for being such fun and good friends and thanks Fab and Giu for all those unexpected italian dirty jokes eheheh. Thanks also to Sara and Diego for the nice times we spent together, grazie!
Thank you Alessia for designing with great creativity the cover of my thesis. You are a true artist. Grazie!
To my other previous house mates Davide, thanks for great chats, guitar shows, mathematic and science discussions, and for nice lunch/dinners together, Federica was very nice to meet you, thanks you guys for nice moments, grazie! Norbi thanks for your intense art performances especially the one that you used the house for, thanks for all the food recipes. Köszönöm! Ďakujem! Rodrigo for the short time you were in the house, it was really nice to get to know you, and discuss the future of agriculture, and humanity. We still managed to make some barbeques before moving out. Obrigada!
Carlota thank you my friend for allowing me to make part of your world, it is a pleasure to meet you and it is always very nice to meet you again. Thanks to you and Mark for such fun meet ups, awesome pizza and tapas (not your rabbit eheh) evenings with great conversations and Carlota’s passionate law closing statements. Gracias! Dank u wel! Ratna and Andrew thanks for the nice moments with you, for the lunches at your place. Thanks Ratna for being always such a warm and kind person to everybody. As you are always smiling is just impossible to be with you and not smile, thank you for being such wonderful person. Terima kasih! Patricia and Hugo thanks for making me feel always welcome at your place, since the first day I met you I had a really good feeling about you guys, and it was so nice to make part of your weeks for quite some time. Thanks for helping me and for being such
great friends. Obrigada! Wendel it was a great to have met you and thanks for sharing your great knowledge about many things. I loved to have all those nice conversations. Thanks for being always there and for your friendship. Dank u wel!
Cátia my dear friend it will always a wonderful thing to meet you no matter where. I am always missing you as we have been best friends since ages and apart for so many years also. Thanks for all the support and positive messages always, you are like a sister to me and will always be. Tão longe mas tão perto. Mimi, obrigada por estares aí! Thanks all to my sweet nieces and nephews by affinity, thanks for bringing joy to my days whenever I meet you again and whenever I think of you. Auntie Susana loves you all! Thanks to all my friends in Portugal and France you are always in my heart. E um grande obrigado a toda minha família mais próxima pelo apoio e amor, e ao meu afilhado Simão pela sua paciência. Obrigada!
Roberto thanks for your tireless support and love that helps me always to try and try and keeps me going. Without a doubt you are my sunshine. Thank you every day for your patience, care, positive energy and love! Grazie amore mio!
E finalmente, obrigada aos meus pais por me darem o maior apoio de todos. Obrigado por tudo e pelo vosso amor infinitivo e por me fazer sorrir cada vez que os vejo, porque eu também vos amo incondicionalmente! Muito obrigada todos os dias!
Curriculum Vitae
Susana was born on the 12th of January 1983, in
Viana do Castelo, Portugal. In 2007 she obtained a degree in Applied Biology from the Minho University in Braga. During this time she performed her final internship, through the Erasmus programme, with Dr. Dick Peters at the Laboratory of Virology at the Wageningen University. She returned then to Portugal and obtained a Master in Plant Molecular Physiology from Minho and Porto Universities in 2009. During her thesis she worked in the group of Prof. José Pissarra and Prof. Susana Pereira supervised by Dr. Diana Soares da Costa and Dr. Cláudia Queirós Pereira in the Biology Department of Porto University. In 2010, she received a Leonardo da Vinci fellowship to continue a collaboration project with the group of Dr. Béatrice Satiat-Jeunemaitre at the former Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS at Gif-sur-Yvette, France. She was then hired as Research Assistant in the same research group. In 2012 Susana joined the group of Prof. Fulvio Reggiori, as PhD student, at UMCU, Utrecht University and later on at the UMCG, Groningen University. The results of her work are described in this thesis. In 2016 she returned to Utrecht and joined the group of Prof. Daniele Guardavaccaro at the Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, where she worked as Research Assistant. Later, fearless of the Brexit, Susana moved to United Kingdom where in 2018 she joined the group of Prof. Stefan Marciniak at the CIMR in Cambridge as Research Assistant.
