320 Appendices I also would like to thank the members of Groningen Research Institute of Asthma and COPD (GRIAC). Over the four years, I have a proud member of GRIAC and thanks to all the colleagues here, I had the opportunity to talk about my science to a broader scientific community as well as to contribute others’ trajectories. Dear Maaike, I’d like to thank you for your efforts in providing a safe space for young investigators in the GRIAC YI meetings, and your help in initiating the poster reformatting focus group. Dear Judith, I cannot appreciate your willingness enough, whether it is to lend a hand in complicated statistical analyses as or to provide constructive feedback on how to make scientific stories accessible to everyone with different backgrounds. I also would like to extend my thanks to the GRIAC Poster Reformatting Focus Group: Sharyn, Tatiana, Brady, Niek and Rhode – it is very nice that our efforts realized a new and accessible poster format for our institute. To the past and present members of GRIAC, thank you for your input during the Young Investigator meetings. From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, dear Prashant, I would like to thank you for your patience and extensive efforts regarding the mechanical analyses we performed in many different studies. It was very nice to collaborate with you. Dear Patrick, although we did not get to collaborate on a research project, you were involved in the macrophage-stroma interactions review and I would like to thank you for your feedback during that writing exercise. Some of the friends who supported me throughout my PhD journey had little to do with the lab or the topics I worked on. I would like to thank İdil for the chats, chats about having coffee and never giving up on the idea of meeting soon again. Considering we lived in the same cities with same friend circles for 10+ years, I think us meeting this many times in the last couple of years is already a great success! It was nice to talk in my native language, once in a while. I wish you the best in finalizing your PhD too, and hope to see you more (this time for real!). Erika and Alejandro, my Donderdag trio. Erika, I still cannot believe that I am writing these lines for you, after our very rocky start years back. But we have learned from mistakes, learned how to look past the disagreements and discovered how alike we are in the end. Thank you for your continuous and unconditional cheering in the last couple of years, I really appreciated it. Hoping to see you was the reason most of the time I aimlessly passed the door between the X lab and U lab. Alejandro (Alex!), every time we met for coffee or drinks, your care and genuine interest in others amazed me! I am so happy to have our friendship and know that we can be there for each other for both bad and good days. Thank you both for making Thursday evenings great, when we didn’t have to postpone it to Fridays or Wednesdays!
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