University of Groningen
Molecular tools for light-navigated therapy
Reeßing, Friederike
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10.33612/diss.128516808
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This is probably the most important part of this thesis, and not just because it is the only part that everyone reads. All this work would not have been possible without so many people:
First and foremost: Wiktor, you were the “compass” in the last four years and guided me through sometimes heavy storms when I was in doubt that I would ever reach the shore. Besides the supervision of my PhD project, I want to thank you for amazing trips to conferences, for all those conversations we had over lunch in the “UMCG” and most importantly for the friendship we established in the last four years.
Ben, thank you for giving me the chance to work in your group and for making any scientific problem seem trivial with your infinite and contagious enthusiasm for science. Rudi, thank you for enabling this research and for your valuable input on the project from the medical perspective.
I would like to thank the reading committee Prof. Angelique Louie, Prof. Christian Peifer and Prof. Philip Elsinga for reading and approving my thesis and giving me helpful feedback.
A substantial amount of work has been performed by the two Master students I supervised: Chantal, it was such a pleasure to work with you and have you in the group! I am still impressed by your perseverance: without any complaints you tried everything possible to make the project work! I am very grateful to you and wish you the very best for the future! Ilse, you were my first student and I am very happy that you now continue your Master project during your PhD. What would the institute be without you? Thank you for the work we have done together, for being such a caring person, and for teaching me Dutch and how to use face masks, nail polish or anything you can buy at Douglas.:)
Kaja, thanks to our collaboration on the Passerini project I could finally do beautifully pink columns! I admire your Chemistry skills and unconventional way of being (meant in a very positive way:)). I want to thank Mafalda for the collaboration on the Vanco-800CW project. You are a great person and researcher and I really enjoyed working with you! I would like to acknowledge Prof. Jan Maarten van Dijl, Marleen van Oosten and the Medical-Microbiology-girls for collaboration and fun times. Thanks also to Matthijs: the 800CW project (just like so much other research going on in the UMCG) would not have been possible without you.
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Furthermore, this PhD research relied on the analytical support from various people: Special thanks go to Marc for the cryoTEM, EDX and DLS analysis, Renze for help with MS spectroscopy, Pieter and Johann for help with NMR experiments, Douwe for biological tests, Hans for ICP OES, and Theodora, Paulien and Marzia for their technical support.
Tineke and Inge, thank you for taking care of us. You did and are still doing an amazing job and are holding the whole group together.
Of course, I would like to thank my two paranymphs for their support in the last years. Dušan, in the end we didn’t run a half-marathon together (yet), but instead we finished the full marathon called a PhD. We went through some ups and downs together and on that way you became one of my closest friends. When I fall down you are the one who helps me up, acknowledges the pain and then makes me prepare for the next kilometer.. I think it is safe to say that Heidi would not have made it to the finish line without her personal trainer!;) Pier, I am so happy that you accepted to be my paranymph! I keep being impressed by your strength and positivity and I enjoyed it so much to learn about your ideas on culture, research and life in general. Many people can learn a lot from you! I will really miss it to sit next to you in the office, even though I am not sure if you will miss the two nervous wrecks writing their theses next to you.. Thank you for enduring us, especially in the last months!
Thanks to everyone who works or has worked in our lab and made it such an enjoyable place to be: Mark, my “partner in crime” during all those BCN events. At the end we are not going to defend on the same day but we did submit our theses at the same time and sharing this moment full of happiness with you was probably one of the best moments of my PhD! Jana, thanks for all your initiative in organizing group events that are crucial for keeping up the group spirit; Nadja, thank you for correcting my horrible German in the summary of this thesis and for always providing good mood and synthetic help in the lab; Thank you, Albert, Lucien, Mickel, Michael and all the students: Laura (best trip advisor), Jacques, Jisk (thank you for the music in the lab), Carla, Aldo, Ferdi and everyone I forgot.
I would also like to thank everyone else from the Feringa group for a good working atmosphere, scientific input and fun times during work weeks and other group activities. Thank you Anouk and Romain for taking care of the group, José for your support when I needed it most, and Cosima for an awesome trip to Lithuania. Besides that, I would like to thank everyone from the 8th floor in Linnaeusborg for collaboration and creating
such a nice environment to perform research.
Mira and Ashmir, you two are just awesome and I am grateful for our friendship and all the fun time we had during countless dinners with amazing food and honest conversations.
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Thank you Wim for translating the summary of this thesis. But more importantly, thank you for being there for me while actually being on the other side of the world for most of the time!
Leti, I would have never ended up doing a PhD in Chemistry without you! You are one of the loveliest, strongest and most caring persons I know and I am so thankful that, almost by coincidence, you became my supervisor during my internship in Groningen. Bedankt aan iedereen die eens bij ons Nederlandse lunch aanwezig was, vooral Stefanie en Sander. Ik heb altijd genoten van onze lunch afspraken en heb hierdoor nog zo veel meer geleerd dan alleen Nederlands.
Thank you to all the “sugarspinners” for creating such a welcoming community and for the help with the Dance your PhD project.
Ohne die Unterstützung durch unsere große Apothekerfamilie hätte ich dieses ganze Unterfangen wohl nicht bewältigen können: Ein riesengroßes Dankeschön geht an alle „geilen-pharmazeuten“ und „Kieler Jungs und Deerns“. Außerdem möchte ich mich bei Marlou sowie Alex und Klaas für so einige Urlaube/Trips bedanken in den letzten vier(+) Jahren. Zeit mit euch allen zu verbringen hat mir immer gezeigt, dass es noch so viele andere Dinge auf der Welt gibt und dass diese zwei kleinen Buchstaben vorm Namen eigentlich nebensächlich sind und es nicht wert sind sich zu stressen.
Zu guter Letzt gilt mein tiefster Dank meiner Familie. Mama, Papa, Kathi und Timo: Danke, dass ich immer auf eure grenzenlose Unterstützung zählen kann!!
