University of Groningen
Folding and replication in complex dynamic molecular networks
Liu, Bin
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10.33612/diss.99784510
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Acknowledgements
There are many people that I would like to thank for their help and support over the past four years. Without all of you, I wouldn’t be at this point either. First and foremost, I would like to gratefully thank Sijbren for giving me the opportunity to pursue my PhD in his group. Your patient guidance, sustained support and encouragement, and the relaxed research atmosphere made me these four years of my PhD very enjoyable. I have benefited much from your broad range of knowledge, scientific approach and warm responsibility. I believe this will have a positive influence on my future scientific career and continue to be a source of inspiration to me.I am deeply grateful to Prof. Gerard for being my co‐supervisor and approving my thesis. I am also grateful to the members of the reading committee, Prof. Luc, Prof. Gilles and Prof. Wesley for the time spent on my thesis and their useful feedback.
Among my collaboarators, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Piotr for his help over the past 10 years, for taking me from the airport, for hosting and taking me around the city when I was in Wroclaw.
I truly appreciate Prof. Ennio for his help with single crystal measurement and refinement, for showing me around the city when I visited Trieste. The same also goes for Prof. Ivan for his kind help with single crystal measurement and refinement of peptide foldamers.
Among my colleagues, I first would like to thank Annette, thank you for your help in various administrative matters during the whole period of my stay in Groningen, from the initial visa application to the confirmation of the final date of my defense.
Monique and Theodora, I appreciate your help with UPLC and LC‐MS, which are the most important instruments this thesis relies on.
Then, I want to give special thanks to my group members. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Babis who played a very important role in my thesis. I am happy that we had the similar research interests (I worked on foldamer and nucelobase replicator, and your research was focused on nucleobase replicator and foldamer!). We had so many useful and useless discussions about ‘science’. Babis, I really enjoyed so much working with you during the past three years and I have learnt a lot from you. Thanks a lot for all of that. I am looking forward to our future collaboration! Ivana and Jim, thank you for accepting to be my paranimfen. Ivana, I would like to thank for your kind help during the last three years, for taking me around when we were in Vienna during the system
Acknowledgements
228 chemistry conference, for proof reading my thesis. Jim, I would like thank you for the numerous TEM pictures you made for me, for your kind help with the samenvstting of this thesis, for proofreading my thesis. Xiaoming, I am very grateful to you for providing the first Chinese food in Groningen, for introducing me new Chinese friends, for teaching me how to use the magic automated flash column chromatography system, for hosting me when I was homeless. I wish you every success in your ongoing work. Gaël, thank you so much for your help, useful discussion and suggestions (both science and life) that made the start of my PhD much easier. Andreas, thank you for providing me with so many ‘HARIBO’. Guille, we started almost at the same time, you only came here one month earlier than me. Thank you very much for helping me to fill a lot of forms and teaching me how to use UPLC.Kai, I would like to thank you for checking and proofreading of my thesis. I am looking forward to seeing you become a professor and build your group in China. Ankush and Paul, you guys bring new spirit into the group, I would like to thank you for proofreading my thesis. Piotr, I really admire your brilliant ideas, thank you very much for sharing your nucleobase replicator project to me. I also would like to thank old and new members of the Otto group those who have worked with me, Jan, Shuo, David, Meniz, Yigit, Pim, Boris, Giulia, Ivaca, Omer, Falk, Marcel, Jasper, Marc, Armin, peter, thank you providing such a nice atmosphere which makes this thesis possible. I hope you all the best in the future. I would like to thank my students Choristoph and Xiangyang for choosing the challenge projects and working with me. I hope you guys have a bright future! Finally, I would like to thank my family for all the support and love that help me go through all these years from such a great distance. Mom, thank you for your support and suggestions all the time. I also want to express my best acknowledgement to my wife, Lan, for her encouragement, unconditional support and love. You are the reason, the motivation and also the future: I love you.
