University of Groningen
Exploring the metabolic potential of Penicillium rubens
Viggiano, Annarita
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10.33612/diss.126598491
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APPENDIX
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
An adapted version of chapter 1 will be submitted to Applied Microbiology
and Biotechnology.
Pohl C, Polli F, Schütze T, Viggiano A, Mózsik L, Jung S, de Vries M, Bovenberg RAL, Meyer V, Driessen AJM. 2020 A Penicillium rubens platform strain for secondary metabolite production. Scientific reports.
Viggiano A, Salo O, Ali H, Szymanski W, Lankhorst PP, Nygård Y,
Boven-berg RAL, Driessen AJM. 2018. Pathway for the biosynthesis of the pig-ment chrysogine by Penicillium chrysogenum. Appl Environ Microbiol 84. Büttel Z, Díaz R, Dirnberger B, Flak M, Grijseels S, Kwon MJ, Nielsen JCF, Nygård Y, Phule P, Pohl C, Prigent S, Randelovic M, Schütze T, Troppens D, Viggiano A. 2015 Unlocking the potential of fungi: the QuantFung project. Fungal Biol Biotechnol Sep 16;2:6.
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Annarita Viggiano was born on May 5th 1989 in Caserta, Italy. After the high school studies in Humanities, she attended the Faculty of Biolog-ical Sciences at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. During her Master studies in Molecular Biology, she did an Erasmus exchange internship in Microbiology at the University of Groningen. She obtained her Master degree in 2014 and joined the Marie Curie Innovative Training Program QuantFung as an Early Stage Researcher. During her PhD, she worked under the supervision of Arnold Driessen and Roel Bovenberg in the Molecular Microbiology Department. Since 2019, she works in Market-ing Communication in Daiichi-Sankyo, Italy.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I arrived in Groningen on a windy day of February. I never felt so cold in my life, but it was sunny and I thought “Well, the weather is not as bad as they say”. I was wrong: it was just as they say. Despite the rainy days, I found in Groningen everything I was looking for: an international and motivating environment, an open-minded attitude and respect towards diversity, great services and organization, working opportunities I could never dream of. Even if with time I realized that the perfect place does not exist, I will always be grateful to the Netherlands for the opportu-nities and life experiences that it offered me.
My PhD life abroad seems very far now, I live in Rome and so many things have changed. Indeed this is a good occasion to bring back memories and thank some of the people I met.
Arnold, I still remember the moment I received your acceptance email for the Erasmus internship. Thanks for the opportunities you gave me and the guidance during these years. Roel, I always appreciated the time you dedicated to us, brainstorming about new projects and talking about the future. Thanks for your support and guidance. Stefan, you showed me how fun research is and what a great opportunity doing a PhD was. Yvonne, your passion for science was inspiring during the hard moments of my research.
Dirk-Jan, Juke and all professors in the QuantFung project, thanks for your feedbacks and suggestions. I learnt a lot from every discussion. Jeroen, you introduced me to the basics of Microbiology in the very first days of my internship and were a reference to me throughout my PhD. Janny and Greetje, thanks for your patience and advices. Anmara and Bea, you always have the right answers. Your support and smiles have been such a great help!
Aleksandra and Riccardo, you are the people with whom I had the most fun during these years. Of course, things could not have been normal with you two, so you are most likely going to be the first long distance paranymphs of the group! Aleksandra, why are the first things about you coming to my mind: cats jumping in a bag, crazy dance moves and endless
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rides to catch the ferry? I can’t wait to meet you on the sunny hills of Tuscany. Riccardo, thanks for the uncountable laughs and for sharing some nostalgic moments. Meet you in Ariccia one day, you know where. My other dearest office mates, my PhD would not have been the same without you. Fernando, you’re my favorite Mexican male :P Thanks for those nice chats in the office, we just had to turn our chairs a little bit… And for the food, thanks for the food. Carsten, you’re a volcano of ideas! Thanks for sharing them with the group and for the fun time during our
QuantFung meetings (and the unofficial funguys trips).
Zsofia, it was such a pleasure to be in the lab with you. It was also nice to meet you on the bus on a rainy morning. Or a windy one. Or a day in which it was expected to rain. Laszlo, your enthusiasm for science is contagious. Thanks for carrying out the last experiments of the thesis. Min, Reto, Ciprian, Fabiola, we all shared the ups and many downs of working with filamentous fungi. Thanks for the fruitful discussions. To my students Alka, Annemarieke, Milda, Luc and Jeannine, I enjoyed working with you and wish you all the best!
Ana and Danae, I definitely miss our sushi dinners. Video calls are fun but not as much as meeting in person, so I hope we’ll be able to finally have our trip together. Sasha, thanks for your tips and for those tak-ing-all-possible-and-unexpected-directions talks: “How did we end up
here?”. Marten, thanks for the help with Lola, succes! Hyun Yong, you
always have the right words. It was a pleasure to meet you.
Amalina, Antonella, Elke, Lucia, Sabrina, Andrè, Niels, Ewa and all Mol-Micians, you all contributed to make MolMic such a warm place. I also want to thank all the people outside the lab, from my Plutolaan fellows to the people I met in my last months in Groningen. We shared dinners, afternoons at the park, parties, trips or courses; somehow I’ve always been amazed at how the entire world could be in such a small town.
Nienke, you have been the best friend in these years. I miss our talks with a glass of wine, our exploring new places in town, our afternoons
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sunbathing (with no success) at the lake. I love that we still find the time to meet or call in our busy lives. It’s rare to find someone who can appreciate and value the beauty of the small things.
Thanks to my family, as being far it’s never easy. However, life is funny and among all the possible places I could be in Italy, it brought me just few kilometers far from you.
In the end, above anyone else, I thank you, Johnny. You make everyone around you a better and happier person. Thanks for the precious mo-ments together and your incomparable support. Ad maiora!
