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Computational Methods for High-Throughput Small RNA Analysis in Plants Monteiro Morgado, Lionel
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This thesis is the result of several years of research as a member of the Groningen Bioinformatics Centre (GBiC). Much work has been developed that for diverse reasons ended not being included here. I’d like to thank the support of all those people who had a positive impact in my work and helped me on the way to get to the current manuscript.
The opportunity given to endorse this PhD research in GBiC was the fundamental step to get to this stage. Without that, this thesis would not exist. For that, I thank my promoter Professor Ritsert C. Jansen and my co-promotor Frank Johannes.
I have a special word of gratitude to all people who gave me further institutional support when necessary, namely: Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB) director Professor Bert Poolman, GBB managing director Engel Vrieling and the director
of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering Professor Petra Rudolf.
Klazien Offens and Margriet Derix, thank you for smoothing bureaucratic work and the administrative processes.
I thank all members of the reading committee for the critical assessment of this thesis: Professor Jan Kok, Professor Ody Sibon and Professor Dick de Ridder.
Rik Kooke, Joost Keurentjes, Koen Verhoeven, Veronica Preite, Julie Ferreira de Carvalho, Sarit Anava and Oded Rechavi, thank you for the fruitful collaborations and the intellectual discussions we had during our joint projects.
I’d like to thank to my once-colleagues in GBiC: René Wardenaar, Pariya Behrouzi and Maria Colomé-Tatché. René, thank you for being a good friend and a good listener. You showed me that with the right attitude and hard work we can reach our goals, and that helped me going till the end of my PhD journey. Pariya, a special thanks for your collaboration in the epigenetic network analysis we once defined, one of the projects that despite the effort did not see the light of the day but which I didn’t forget. Maria, thank you for the valuable feedback given during the numerous group seminars where I had the chance to bring my work for discussion.
165 Also important feedback providers and an indispensable company during coffee breaks were my officemates. In GBiC, I’d like to thank to Mohammed Shojaei for the funny and hilarious moments we had together as a result of the cultural shock felt when moving to the Netherlands. Adrian van der Graaf, you were a door to the Dutch society and helped me to understand better how things work in the Netherlands. Many thanks for that. Konrad Zych, thank you for the company that kept me motivated to keep working from the office in Zernike, as GBiC was shrinking. We shared important episodes of our lives during the last years, I hope our friendship will endure the distance so that we can keep doing so in the years to come. From Freising, I’d like to thank David Roquis, Amaryllis Vidali and Aaron Taudt, for the honest and heart-felt friendship, the morning weisswursts, the afternoon klask games and the evening schnitzels, always accompanied by a joke or a philosophical entry to help digesting the days in Bavaria.
I have a word of appreciation for all people who facilitated my integration in Germany in the department of Plant Sciences. In special, I thank Christina Lehermeier, Katherin Topner, Sanda Unterseer and Wiltrud Erath for the sympathy, friendship and also for the technical support provided.
Andrea Cabrera, Vania Rivera, Xénia Lopes, Yacine Chehida and Leonie Huijser, thank you for making me going out of “the basement” and remembering me that I was not alone in the department, from the beginning till the last days of my doctorate degree.
“Os últimos são sempre os primeiros”, e porque acredito que a família e amigos são pedras basilares para o desenvolvimento saudável e sustentável de cada indivíduo como pessoa, deixo aqui uma palavra de apreço na minha língua maternal a todos os que sempre me apoiaram de uma forma permanente e incondicional desde o início desta jornada. Sendo vocês parte de mim, esta tese também é vossa. A todos o meu muito obrigado!
