Rodent malaria parasites : genome organization & comparative
genomics
Kooij, Taco W.A.
Citation
Kooij, T. W. A. (2006, March 9). Rodent malaria parasites : genome organization &
comparative genomics. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/4326
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Acknowledgements
I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all that have in one way or another contributed to the realization of this thesis, to begin with all the people of the Department of Parasitology, and in particular those of the Malaria Research Group. First of all, I would like to thank my colleague, great friend, and paranimf Hans Kroeze, for his protocols in molecular biology and support both within and outside the lab. I would also like to thank Jai Ramesar, for guiding me through my first steps in malaria research and for the invaluable support with the culturing of parasites. Special thanks to Blandine Franke-Fayard, for helping with visualizing those parasites and excellent discussions after parasitology meetings. Apart from being great sports and supports in the lab the following people helped by contributing probes or chromosomal locations of their partiular genes of interest: Anneke Braks, Milly van Dijk, Don Gardiner, Alireza Haghparast, Joke de Jong, Marianna Karras, Shahid Khan, Gunnar Mair, Resie van Spaendonk, Joanne Thompson, and Dina Vlachou. Furthermore, I would like to thank Kevin Augustijn and Maaike van Dooren, for providing me with the TAP-tag vector; Leo van Lin, for introducing me to Plasmodium berghei chromosome 5; Jasper Renz, for providing me with a flying start on the tubulin project; and Auke van W igcheren, for helping me out when I wanted to crash my computer. Finally, I would like to thank our visiting Ph.D. students, Vasco Correia, Marta Tufet-Bayona, and Pierrick Uzureau for sharing fate, and my student Abdallah Musa Abdallah for his brave efforts trying to map the pir superfamily.
There are a couple of other people from the department that deserve some attention: Caroline Remmerswaal and Jantien Guldemond-Nieuwland helped me keep the process of getting my promotion organized running smoothly, while I was in Oxford; Rene van Zeijl, for computer support and cryptanalysis; and my fellow Ph.D. students on the floor, Anita van den Biggelaar, Hanneke de Gruijter, Desirée van der Kleij, Alexandra van Remoortere, Marjolein Robijn, Marike van Roon, and Koen van den Vijver, for mental support and understanding.
The radioactive work was done at the Department of Virology. I would like to thank Richard (Rimo) Molenkamp for his help in and around the Geiger-counter; and Erwin van den Born and Patrick W anningen for their support in and around the labs.
Acknowledgements
The majority of my thesis, which covers the comparative genome analysis of rodent malaria species, would not have been possible without a number of people: Jane Carlton, Shelby Bidwell, and Neil Hall (The Institute for Genomic Research, MD, USA; also thanks to Jane for hosting me at my visit to TIGR); Matt Berriman (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute); Tomasso Pace (Istituto Superiore di Sanità); and Mike Turner (University of Glasgow).
Tenslotte wil ik graag al mijn vrienden bedanken voor hun begrip en ondersteuning. Ik had dit zeker niet voor elkaar gekregen zonder jullie steun of zonder mijn uitlaatklep met de mannen van Iúgot.
Papa, mama, Eelke, Pepijn en paranimf Sanne, bedankt voor jullie interesse, onvoorwaardelijke steun, blind vertrouwen en liefde (en voor de spellingscontrole natuurlijk).
Curriculum vitae
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Publications
Publications
Eward H.W. Pap, Gregor P.C. Drummen, Victor J. Winter, Taco W .A. Kooij, Phylip J. Rijken, Karel W.A. Wirtz, Jos A.F. Op den Kamp, Willem J. Hage and Jan A. Post, “Ratio-fluorescence microscopy of lipid oxidation in living cells using C11-BODIPY
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”, FEBS Lett.453 (3), 278-282 (1999).
Jane M. Carlton, Samuel V. Angiuoli, Bernard B. Suh, Taco W .A. Kooij, Mihaela Pertea, Joana C. Silva, Maria D. Ermolaeva, Jonathan E. Allen, Jeremy D. Selengut, Hean L. Koo, Jeremy D. Peterson, Mihai Pop, Daniel S. Kosack, Martin F. Shumway, Shelby L. Bidwell, Shamira J. Shallom, Susan E. van Aken, Steven B. Riedmuller, Tamara V. Feldblyum, Jennifer K. Cho, John Quackenbush, Martha Sedegah, Azadeh Shoaibi, Leda M. Cummings, Laurence Florens, John R. Yates, J. Dale Raine, Robert E. Sinden, Michael A. Harris, Deirdre A. Cunningham, Peter R. Preiser, Lawrence W. Bergman, Akhil B. Vaidya, Leo H. van Lin, Chris J. Janse, Andrew P. Waters, Hamilton O. Smith, Owen R. White, Steven L. Salzberg, J. Craig Venter, Claire M. Fraser, Stephen L. Hoffman, Malcolm J. Gardner and Daniel J. Carucci, “Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the model rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii”, Nature 419 (6906), 512-519 (2002).
Neil Hall, Marianna Karras, J. Dale Raine, Jane M. Carlton, Taco W .A. Kooij, Matthew Berriman, Laurence Florens, Christoph S. Janssen, Arnab Pain, Georges K. Christophides, Keith James, Kim Rutherford, Barbara Harris, David Harris, Carol Churcher, Michael A. Quail, Doug Ormond, Jon Doggett, Holly E. Trueman, Jacqui Mendoza, Shelby L. Bidwell, Marie-Adele Rajandream, Daniel J. Carucci, John R. Yates III, Fotis C. Kafatos, Chris J. Janse, Bart Barrell, C. Michael R. Turner, Andrew P. Waters and Robert E. Sinden, “A comprehensive survey of the Plasmodium life cycle by genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic analyses”, Science 307 (5706), 82-86 (2005).
Taco W .A. Kooij, Blandine Franke-Fayard, Jasper Renz, Hans Kroeze, Maaike W. van Dooren, Jai Ramesar, Kevin D. Augustijn, Chris J. Janse and Andrew P. Waters, “Plasmodium berghei Į-tubulin II: a role in both male gamete formation and asexual blood stages”, Mol. Biochem. Parasitol.144 (1), 16-26 (2005).
