The impact of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on microbial community dynamics in the rhizosphere
Drigo, B.
Citation
Drigo, B. (2009, January 21). The impact of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on
microbial community dynamics in the rhizosphere. Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Leiden University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13419
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Acknowledgments
‘What I see are choices, choices which are willing to be made and not a single reject’.
This is what Netherlands with its wonderful culture and people teach me and I will always bring it with me wherever I will go.
During my stay I learn a lot about science, but also about myself and life. The infinite support, enthusiasm and the optimistic way to deal with life of the people who led me through the last five years were my most important life lesson. I will be never thankful enough to them, who believed and encourage me in each single minute of my PhD. You were always on my side in the difficult and successful moments. You made me grow as a scientist and most importantly as a person. It was an immense pleasure working with you!
Thanks Anouk and Leni! Thanks Cindy!
I would like to thank Eric Boschker. You were always available and very helpful. Thanks for your guidance and our insightful discussions. Your contribution was crucial in my PhD.
Marco Houtekamer, thank you for all the support you gave me and especially I am grateful to your un-doubtful dedication to work.
Special thanks to you Tetsuro. Your Japanese philosophy of life helps me to hold on when I was getting crazy with the enormous quantity of samples. Sayuri and your hospitality were always refreshing to me. I really enjoyed your guidance through the amazing streets of Tokyo. My visit in Japan wouldn’t be as special as it was without you.
I am very grateful to Paul Bodelier, you support me and were a source of knowledge for me. Thanks to Marion Meima for discussing many fundamental SIP technical details and your positive attitude in life.
I would like to thank Andrew Whiteley, Robert Griffiths and Bruce Thomson from the CEH in Oxford University for introducing me to the SIP technique. Without you I couldn’t certainly accomplish as much as I accomplish in this thesis. You also made me discover the English pub life, amazing!
Thanks to Jos Raaijmakers for the support and our insightful discussions.
My gratitude goes to Caroline Plugge at the Wageningen University for receiving me in her facilities, her precious suggestions and scientific discussions.
Special thanks to Brigitte Knapp for being my ‘right lab harm’ in the most complex moment of my PhD. Brigitte, you listen to me, cheer me up and with your dedication to work made possible the impossible. Thanks!
Grazie a Sergio Pelaschiar and Debora for helping me with my thesis and for their kindness and for being so professional with me.
Piet, Kees, Jürgen and Joeke thanks for your warm welcome in PRI and for being incredibly nice with me. Thanks for your positive attitude, patience and comprehension.
You encourage me and were there in my most difficult moments and life choices. You understand and respect my willing in a way that I will never forget in all my life. I will always remember your support in such a crucial moment of my existences. It is not easy to find the right way to thank you as much as I would like for your incredible consideration of my ambitions as scientist. I hope one day I will be able to express all my gratitude to you and reward you for all you did for me. Joeke thanks for being the wonderful person that you are.
I am grateful to Leo for your suggestions, useful remarks, support and make me see life in a better way each time you where popping up in my office. Thanks for the nice time we had in Australia.
Mirjam and Carin thanks for the nice time we had in our field trips, in the lab and for your kind attitude. You made me feel comfortable and welcome in PRI.
I really enjoyed my staying in Heteren. Gerda, Elly, Christa, Wilma and Gerry you made my life easier, you where always helpful and ready to answer all the most complicate and incredible requests from me. Thank you, Thank you and Thank you!
Ab, Gilles, Wiecher, Henk, Roel and Gregor without you all of this wouldn’t be possible.
Thanks for the week-ends spent to take care of CO2 flow cabinets and me when I was labelling night and day, for brain storm with me, for sharing your time in chatting with me, for being patient when I was colonizing the greenhouse and delivering you tons of samples to analyze. Hartelijk bedankt.
Saskia thanks for make me discover horse ridding (I love it!), for your fantastic attitude and helpfulness. Pauline I really enjoyed working with you!
Marlies, Slavica, Tanja and Christa the Molab without you wouldn’t be the same. The atmosphere you create is resourceful, helpful and particularly efficient. I loved to work with you. It was always relaxing and funny at the same time even when I was occupying all the space available in the -80 and -20 fridges.
Paolina it was nice to share our attempt to try to speak perfect Dutch and on the same time to become good combat players. To you Paolina I am particularly grateful because you are the one who help me to find my position at PRI. Thanks a lot for that. You open me the opportunity to grown in my scientific skills and I will be never enough grateful to you!
Kathrin F. thanks for your kind attitude and for being always very sensitive and positive in life. Was a pleasure to work with you.
Johan your brightness and intelligence in approaching the problems not only scientific was an example to follow for me. Thanks for our discussion and for your important inputs. Now that you are in the States I really miss your presence around the NIOO. Thanks Maria!
Wietse you were a mentor to me and I really had extremely fruitful discussion with you that were crucial during all my PhD. You are not only an excellent scientist but as well a wonderful person. I am very grateful that you gave me the opportunity to work with you.
Martijn thanks for teach me how to do proper statistic, thanks for being patient and always helpful to me.
Wim you showed me what pure science is. Your and Martijn personalities and dedication to work was an inceptive for improving in my scientific skills. Thanks!
Jeff thanks, thanks, thanks for our interesting discussion, for always cheer me up with your warm and vibrant personality. I truly miss our relaxing and extremely interesting chatting moments.
Annemieke, Annelies, Ana, Katrin M., Gera, Kees, Zoe, Lur, Stein, Francisco, Sonja, Eva, Sung, Tim, Elly, Patrick, Larissa, Arnoud, Megan, Mirka, Remy, Gustavo, Luisa, Paul, Susanne, Anna P., Zmek and Ciska thanks for the nice dinners, Polish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Spanish, English parties, normal parties, ‘hysterical’ ones and all the nights spent in the pub around Wageningen, Skier, Utrecht, Vienna, Gent, Reading and Assen. You make me smile, you listen to me in the difficult and happy moments of my life and you cared about me. Thanks for your support, for our relaxing moments and for the nice time we shared together. Thanks for your friendship!
Mi querido Fernando gracias por todo!
Hannes, your intelligence and knowledge is an inspiration to me. Thank you for helping me in finding my position in Australia. Thank you for your crucial scientific contributions and our fruitful discussions. Thanks really a lot Hannes!
Eiko and Joop Muito obrigada, Hartelijk bedankt. Eiko your serenity, calm and knowledge still amaze me. I really appreciate you as a scientist and as a person. Joop thanks for sharing with me your life philosophy open my eyes and help me in taking the right decisions.
Anna K and Patrick thanks for the nice friendship, for sharing together philosophical ideas about life. Thanks not only for the parties but as well for all the nice moments I had with you, they helped very much to better understand myself.
A special thanks to Roxi, Mitja, Etienne and Sachie, Gracias, Danke, Merci, Arigato.
Roxi gracias for sharing the office, your Uruguayan attitude and for being for me an inspiration but most importantly a support during my PhD. Thanks Marcos! Danke Mitja for your kindness, nice moments shared together and your encouragement at the end of my PhD. Merci Etienne for being my friend, for your jokes and for all the many nice evenings
such a hospital and good guide. I will never forget your beautiful spirit. You made me fell a better person. Thanks Joris!
Ulisses thank you to share with me your scientific success, the nice discussions and being always so positive. Thanks for the relaxing and funny moments at lunch time, in the office and in Australia. Muito obrigada
Radi you were always smiling, helpful and resourceful, which create a great atmosphere when I am around you. Thanks for sharing with me great fun in parties, nice discussion about life, jokes, science and much much more. THANKS Radi with all my heart! Thanks Erika for your advices and kind attitude. It really meant a lot to me! Thanks, Ina and Coz!
Mercì to all of you girls (I still cannot say it in Bulgarian or Rumanian yet !)
Agata you were my guardian angel along all this five years. Always supporting me, always keeping me on track and help me to achieve my goals with your perfect organisation and knowledge. Your honest and sincere friendship led me through all my staying here.
Bedankt.
Sarash and Jeroen you are wonderful! The time shared with you is always refreshing for my mind and spirit. You are an integrant part of my soul. THANKS from all my heart for your friendship and being as you are.
Thanks Tom for your kindness and for your beautiful personality.
A special thank with all my heart to Els, for your smile, our pleasant discussions, and being always supportive more as friend than as colleague. Thanks for cheer me up in the pub and made such a great working atmosphere in the office. Thank you Els for understand me so well, I am lucky to share the office with you and even more to have you as a paranymph.
Grazie, grazie, grazie Mariangela per essermi stata sempre vicina in tutti questi anni. Mi manchi tanto! Gli amici veri non hanno confini e non conoscono la distanza e ne il concetto del tempo. Grazie per la tua vera amicizia!
Grazie Vittorio (Vito) per essere il mio sempre eterno amico, colui che mi apre gli occhi quando è necessario aprirmeli, colui che sa darmi direzioni nella vita, colui che sa farmi ragionare e che di fronte alla difficoltà della vita sa farmi ridere e sa tranquillizzarmi!
Grazie Mara! Grazie Luca!
Thanks to Sasha for sharing your thoughts, emotions, your kind and warm personality with me. It meant really a lot to me. Spasiba Sasha! Spasiba Jury and Vladimir!
Ronald hartelijk bedankt for caring about me, for being honest with me, for make me think when I couldn’t think, for your ‘super’ sense of humour in life. You are a great guy and was fun to share nights in the pub with Irene, Els and you. I am grateful that I did have the opportunity to know you better. Thanks for the friendship. Irene thanks a lot for the time we shared, thanks for your respectful and kind attitude!
Francesca grazie di tutto cuore per la meravigliosa persona che sei. Per avermi aiutata in tutti i miei momenti in cui più mi sentivo indifesa e sola. Per non aver mai preteso nulla in cambio ma solo dato, per essere sempre comprensiva e vicina a me. Grazie Francesca perché senza te il mio percorso Olandese non sarebbe stato lo stesso. Spero un giorno di poterti supportare come tu mi hai supportato. GRAZIE!
Marzia we know each other from almost our childhood. You were always there for me.
You care about me like a sister and although an ocean separates us we keep in touch every day. We keep on sharing our Italian dramatic moments, our emotions and difficulties in life as we were at our home town. We lived together so many important steps of our life that you couldn’t miss this one, grazie Marzia for being close to me also in this important step of my life. La mia gratitudine per la tua amicizia non ha confine e non ha adeguate parole per descriverla. MILLE GRAZIE!
Thanks Ilya for being supportive in the moments when I need more support. Thanks for caring about me. Your Russian soul changed my life. Your values so similar to mine made me feel at home. I will forget what you said and what you did but I will never forget what you made me fell. Spasiba Ilya!
Lyda, my best friend. How many emotions, life experiences we passed together. We fell down from the harshness of life and we rose up together. We made step by step the person that we are, but inside of us we keep on realizing that we still not grown enough, that we still are ignorant of life. This never stops us and always keeps us on trying to grow in the best way our life offer to us. We always shared our achievements and frustrations with the silent conscience that we had to support each other in order to reach our little steps in life.
We will be always of mutual support; we will be always the same soul although we are separate by oceans. I am proud of you, Lyda and Mick, I feel blessed to be your friend.
Efkaristos poli, Grazie Lyda! Danke Mick!
Thanks to my beloved grandparents nonna Celestina, nonno Bepi e nonno Vittorio. Mi proteggete da là su con il vostro amore. Vi ho voluto e sempre vi vorrò un bene eterno!
Grazie nonna Palmira tu hai sempre creduto in me e non hai dubitato per un solo minuto che io non c’è l’avessi fatta. Ti voglio tanto tanto bene.
To my world, to My Mother and My Father. Siete e sarete sempre il mio porto sicuro contro le avversità della vita. Sarete sempre coloro con cui vorrò più di ogni altra cosa condividere i miei momenti di felicità, di realizzazione ma anche i miei momenti più difficili. Senza il vostro eterno supporto, senza la vostra immensa fiducia non avrei potuto raggiungere i miei traguardi. E a voi che io dedico i miei ultimi anni della mia vita e a voi che dedico la mia vita. Non c’è un grazie abbastanza grande per esprimere la gratitudine che provo per voi. Non c’è un amore abbastanza grande per descrivere l’amore che provo per voi. Il potere del vostro amore mi guiderà sempre nella mia vita.
Gli oceani separano la vita quotidiana ma non l’amore che provo per voi. Vi
