Image processing and computing in structural biology
Jiang, L.
Citation
Jiang, L. (2009, November 12). Image processing and computing in structural biology. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14335
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Curriculum Vitae
Linhua Jiang was born on November 12, 1977 in Yongzhou, China. In 1995, he finished his studies in secondary school and started Computer Science education in Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He also studied Economics as a minor subject at Jiaotong University. In 1999, he obtained a bachelor degree in Computer Science and a second bachelor degree in Economics.
After years of work experience as network engineer and software engineer, he decided to extend his expertise by studying abroad in an advanced master program of Artificial Intelligence at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, 2003. In 2003 and 2004, the internship in the Multimedia Lab in IMEC (Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center), Belgium, fostered his interests in scientific research.
Shortly after he received a master degree cum laude, he joined the Cyttron research project as a Ph.D candidate in the department of Biophysical Structural Chemistry, Leiden University. He devoted himself to the research of new methods and their applications in solving the structures of macromolecules, which resulted in this thesis.
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A Special Word of Thanks
To end my thesis, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people who helped me and supported me during the last four years.
First, I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Jan Pieter Abrahams for his guidance, support and encouragement during my research period. I found great enlightenment from his remarks. Lots of original ideas resulted from the fruitful discussions with him. With his support, I had so many opportunities of advanced traineeship, e.g. in Houston USA, Madrid Spain and Antwerpen Belgium.
I would also like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Jasper R. Plaisier for his great help in starting my research of single particle reconstruction. I really appreciate the happy time that we work together and our journey to the USA for an international conference near Lake Tahoe.
Many thanks to my collaborators who helped me and contributed in the project of ribosomal reconstruction: Prof. Dr. Nenad Ban, Dr. Christiane Schaffitzel, Dr. Roman I.
Koning, Dr. Rouven Bingel-Erlenmeyer, Dr. Philipp Korber, Daniël C. de Geus. And also in the project of electron crystallography: Prof. Dr. Henny W. Zandbergen, Dr.
Stavros Nikolopoulus and Dr. Dilyana Georgieva. I am really impressed by Dilyana for working so hard and spending so much time in collecting perfect electron diffraction data and help me testing the EDiff software. We successfully collaborated in determining the unit cell of several types of nano-crystals. I also acknowledge the contributions of the master students Maurits W. A. Kok and K.I.M. IJspeert in this project.
I am very grateful for the help from other teachers and colleagues: Dr. RAG de Graaf, Dr. Maxim Kuil, Dr. Navraj S. Pannu, Prof. Dr. Mathieu Noteborn, Dr. Irakli Sikharulidze, Dr. Pavol Skubak, Dr. Zunfeng Liu, Dr. Pavol Skubak, Dr. Ellen Thomassen, Jan de Sonneville, Francoise Grenouilleau, and others. Particularly thanks to Dr. RAG de Graaf for translating the summary to Dutch (Samenvatting).
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Special thanks to my wife, Hua Pan. She abandoned a nice job and easy life in Shanghai to accompany me. She always understands me and supports me, and has even helped me with producing drawings and documentation for my thesis. Without her, I would not have such a lovely son, Hauer Jiang, who was born in May 2008. She works so hard and is such a good, unselfish mother in our small home.
Last but not the least, I would like to acknowledge my families in China: my parents, parents-in-law, brother and sisters. Though they are far away, they always contact me and give me encouragement and confidence.
To those whom I forgot to mention, I apologize.
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