7 Acknowledgements

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7 Acknowledgements
During my PhD, I met many nice and important people that contributed to finish this thesis.
I want to thanks to everybody. I hope I can remember all of you! I am closing my eyes
now trying to remember the lab, the corridors, the walls (and asbestos) the offices and my
colleagues. Most of the people are not there any more! I hope to remember all of you!
Bert, thanks to give me the opportunity to join your group! You give me a place to do my
second master project with Geert. Also thanks for asking me to join the PhD in your group
and also TIFN group from Wageningen. Thanks also for your patience when the results were
not always positive. And of course for your time in reading and correcting my manuscripts
even you were in holidays or ill! You made rigorously corrections! I remember now when we
spent many times in the train going or coming back from Wageningen meetings!
Thanks also to Geert! You also contributed not only in my last master project but also
you gave me positives inputs to start my PhD in the same lab! Thanks for showing the nice
world of working with antimicrobial peptides and also with confocal microscopy! Thanks a
lot because working with you we got two papers published in only 6 months or less of work!
You are a Cum Laude supervisor!
Tjakko, thanks for being always positive about Ger receptors studies. Since I got my first
cloning and expression of one of the Ger proteins, you were very excited and you wanted the
crystal structures! Thanks also for answering all my questions from lots of emails! Thanks
also to correct this thesis! You gave me nice comments and advices too!
Oscar Kuipers, thanks for giving me rides to Wageningen for our group meetings. Once, I
took the wrong bus and you found me and saved me! And also thanks a lot for being always
very positive with my project and for your feedbacks after my presentation in European
Spores Conferences. Robin, Thanks also for your interest in my project and your advices
during my PhD. And also for your supervision during sporulation experiments in your lab!
You stayed with me very long! You gave me always feedbacks after my oral presentations! We
shared nice moments in European Spores Conferences; I will always remember the meetings
in Cortona, Italy and the limoncello! And our last meeting in UK.
Fabritzia, We had many meetings together in Wageningen, it was always nice to talk to
you! You always have nice stories to tell. And it was nice to share nice moments during
TIFN meetings and Quizpub!
Alicja and previously Wim you helped me a lot to figure out what were those extra bands
I was purifying all the time!! Thanks a lot for your help.
Thanks to All TIFN team!! I want to thanks to all TIFN team, Roy, Xiao, Greetje, Sachin
and Clint. Thanks Roy for being our team manager of C-1056 team! You were always very
nice and friendly! You helped me when I had some trouble to reach TIFN meetings and
always very helpful to answer all my questions. Thank Xiao to send a copy of your thesis
from Wageningen to Los Alamos!
Coming back to our colleagues in Enzymology lab:
Dear Armagan thanks a lot for your help during Patch clamp experiments. For your
positive comments and encouragement to continue patching. You shared with me your
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experience as a mom and as a researcher.
Dirk, thanks a lot for your help during characterization of one of my proteins, you helped
me with Light scattering chromatography! I always remember you nice sense of humor!
Even sometimes I couldn’t understand it ,
Now, I will start with my office mates:
I would like to thanks Ria for being always helpful and encourage me when I was not
feeling so good. You gave me many tips to improve my purification and reconstitution of
my proteins and of course you gave me many advices and tips when I had my child! I will
always remember you! It was very nice we shared office! I wish you all the best.
Gemma, thanks for being there always with a solution for everything! Always very
positive! And happy! We always spoke in spanish and it was so nice for me! Out from
the lab we shared nice moments with our spanish family and common friends! Y para Edu
tambien muchas gracias! Les deseo todo lo major a los dos! Estoy segura que juntos seran
siempre felices a donde el destino les lleve! Edu muchos animos en tus estudios! Seguro que
estas aprendiendo un monton! Felicitacions i exit!!
Nobina! I had many memories together! I met you during master studies and after that
we shared nice moments together during our PhD in the lab and outside the lab! Thanks
Ina for your help during my calcein experiments, you gave me all your tips and advices! We
also spent a lot of time in the patch clamp room! you with the new automatic patch and I
trying to get a Gigaohms with the manual one. Also thanks to Randy! I wish you all the
best in UK! Rianna you came in my last months in the lab and also in my office. I enjoyed
listen your stories about horses and your family thanks to be there. I wish you all the best
in your PhD.
Yuri also you came in my last month where Gemma was sitting before, it was nice to have
you as an officemate. I wish you all the best.
Next room to my left, the busy and noise one with the red sofa in your office! Dusan,
Stephany, Frans, and Gemma! I wish you all the best! Stephanie thanks to help me to find
out about my construct!! Akira thanks also for your help and advices during my experiments,
we spent many times in the lab also until very late sometimes! And sometimes in the cold
room!
Going to next room to my right Gea, Anton, Pranav and Duygu:
Gea, you were part of my PhD project, we have a nice paper together! Thanks to help me
during work discussions and for all your help doing my experiments for my thesis! I learnt
a lot from you. Thanks to invite us for dinner during Christmas time, we were always very
sad to being without our family and you always made a nice full table with delicious food
to share with us!
Anton thanks for helping me to make nice constructs! You explained very well! I remember
you as the easygoing person in the lab! I have never seen you upset.
Duygu thanks to help me to use the GUV maker machine. Since you showed me how to
do it I had nice results all the time! I wish you all the best finalizing your PhD.
Jan Peter, thanks a lot for your help during my last year of PhD! You made a lot of time
for me during patching, and in between you were writing your own thesis and working as a
post doc. You also took time to read and gave me good comments for one of my papers!
Pranav, I had nice memories with you especially at the beginning of my PhD. We took a
course together (oral presentation course), you liked my peruvian song! Los pollitos dicen
pio pio pio ... I wish all the best in your postdoc and with your family.
Continue to my right I have the next room, McDonald, Nadia, Eric, Ana, Dani, Jonas
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and Arnold
Thanks MacDonald, we shared lot of time behind the Patch clamp! You showed me after
Armagan how to patch and have good sealing!! You have a looot of patience with patching
and spent a lot of hours in the patching room. I was always surprised that you could do
many experiments at the same time! I wish you all the best in Malawi and with your family!
Dani, muchas gracias!! por toda tu ayuda!, gracias por tu super cepa DML1, gracias por
mencionarme en agradecimientos en uno de tus articulos! Tambien gracias por acordarte
siempre de nosotros y escribirnos correos para saber como estamos! Y por supuesto dandome
muchos animos para terminar la tesis!! Te deseo todo lo mejor en tu nuevo trabajo en Irlanda!
Nadia, we became good friend, we shared pipets and clean flasks sometimes!, and we had
nice chats together. You are very hard worker! I will always admire your perseverance to
finish your thesis! I wish you all the best with your family in Sweden.
Dear Anna I met in my second year of PhD! You are very nice person and positive! I wish
you all the best in Germany with your work and your family! You told me once that being
a mom is wonderful experience! You were right!
Going again to the other side of the lab!
Josy, we shared the same office for a couple of months with Ravi and Fabrizia! We also
shared our zumba workout lessons together! I was always impressed how you can practice a
lot of sports! When we biked together I ended very exhausted! Thanks for all ladies night
you arranged for us! I wish you all the best in your new job and with your family with
Ronnie and baby! Andreja, I always remember your very loud laughs! Always very happy!
I wish you all the best in Switzerland. Faizah, I met you during our master projects in
the lab, you are very polite and nice colleague! I remember your Bachelorette party it was
great! Thanks to send me positive thinking from Groningen when I left the lab. Marysia,
I remember you with nice sense of humor, and always being very helpful when I had some
problems during SEC, I always of course remember your cakes!! I still want your recipes!
Dorith and Sonja, I met you when I came back after my maternity leave. You are very nice
colleagues I wish you all the best in your future career. Eriba group thanks to all of you:
Lizbeth, Anne, Anne Marie, Justyna, Astri, Anton and Petra. The lab was not the same
without you.
Thanks as well to my previous colleagues (Jacek, Siva, Tejas, Ravi, Adeline and more) all
the best for you! And thanks to all colleagues I met during my PhD! (Sorry if I forgot to
mention all)
To my spanish-speaking friends!! Dani; Gemma y Edu; Claudia y Simona; Adriana,
German y Violeta; Alberto, Esther y Clarita; Noelia y Jason; Maria, Frank y Tomas! Gracias
chicos! Cuantas cosas hemos compartido y pasado juntos! Gracias por haber estado alli, para
darnos fuerzas y animos para seguir adelante y afrontar todo los cambios en nuestras vidas!
Besos para todos!! Los tengo en mi corazon!! Y ahora en el whatsApp! Comunicandonos a
miles de kilometros de distancias!
Ruti, nuestra amiga peruana en Groningen! Te deseo todo lo major en Alemania!
Marijke and Harry! Thanks for being our dutch family! We will always be happy to be
your friends! You help us a lot (until now). We always appreciate how much you did for us!
We never imagined that we would find a family in Groningen! Bedankt for everything!! Belen
Sylvain e hijitos! Muchas gracias chicos por haber estado con nosotros desde que llegamos
a Groningen, nos conocimos en la Iglesia! Y desde entonces seguimos siendo amigos, que
pena no poder ver crecer a Lise y a Estefan debe estar muy lindos y hablando 4 idiomas!
Ildi, I met you in my student house, in my second year of master. We shared good and
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bad moments, but now I am very happy that you enjoy your new job and you are happy
in Hungary, which I would love to visit someday!! I couldn’t imagine that a found a friend
that we have so much in common!
Thanks to Eamon, Annechien and baby, thanks also for all your help and all our dinners
together! Thanks to get our baby stuff when we left Groningen. I was very happy to know
that you could use them.
Mary and Dennis, gracias chicos por vivir en Holanda y ser nuestros amigos. Gracias por
todas las fiestas latinas y cenas que compartimos, por los tips para nuevos padres! Y por
toda la ayuda que siempre nos han brindado!
To my friends in Lima, gracias a Kathy y Vane. Gracias chicas por estar siempre alli
nos conocemos tanto tiempo! Gracias tambien por haber venido a visitarnos y conocer
Groningen! Gracias por estar siempre pendientes de nosotros! Katy te acuerdas de nuestro
sueño de visitar Europa, lo conseguimos!! y subimos hasta las torres mas altas jajaja! Y
seguiremos subiendo! Espero verlas pronto!!
My previous lab in The Cayetano Heredia University colleagues! Gracias Dra Manualita
and Dr Gilman, Mirko, Patty, Yanina, Nancy, Edith, Carmen y Marilu! All members of
Gilman’s Lab.
To my family, parents and brothers and sister Gracias Cesitar (canito) por siempre estar
alli cuando mas lo necesitaba, si tengo que agradecerte muchas cosas no alcanzaria el papel
de esta thesis! Muchas gracias por siempre estar alli, dandome animos y mucho empuje para
terminar nuestro sueño de tener ambos nuestro PhD en el extranjero. Gracias por ser un
buen papá y haber cuidado a Andre cuando yo estaba terminando la tesis. Besitos a mi
hijito lindo aunque no sabe leer, con tu sonrisa de todos los dias me ayudaron a terminar esta
tesis. Gracias a mis padres y hermanos que aunque no entiendan porque sigo estudiando si
yo acabe los estudios de biologia hace mucho tiempo , y se preguntan porque hice tantas
maestrias y ahora doctorado? Gracias por su apoyo y animos para terminar esta tesis.
Finally, I want to thanks to all my new colleagues in Los Alamos, New Mexico Consortium,
Dr Sayre, Steve, Sangeeta, Natasha, Angela, Sowyma, Sathish, Angela and more! Thanks
to give me the opportunity to learn about Algae research and also give me time and a nice
place to finish my thesis.
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