A Acknowledgements | 213 feedback of the reviewers, you always seem so jolly, never complaining about any of that, you go around and cheer others up! Also, your neatly organized system of documenting the experiments and archiving the data puts any corporate good documentation practice policy to shame. (Martin, wat ben jij een vrolijk en optimistisch ingesteld mens! En wat was jouw labjournaal altijd keurig bijgewerkt! Knap, hoor! Heel erg bedankt voor je praktische tips voor het afronden van het proefschrift. Ik wens je nog heel veel succes met jouw onderzoek, vele Nature papers, natuurlijk, maar vooral ook veel plezier thuis met jullie prachtige tweeling!) Martine, we pipetted several experiments together and eventually turned that into a paper, ran a half-marathon in Vienna together and several other runs, were expecting at the same time (a coincidence), and now our kids are running and sporting together, followed by an occasional cake eating on Sundays (not a coincidence). I am grateful for your friendship, the many fun memories we share and happy that we keep creating new ones. Also together with Linda, you, and Martin, we stayed quite close after the AMC years (also geographically close; somehow, we ended up living quite close to each other). Linda, you and I are late bloomers, the timelines of our theses followed similar paths and we were both finishing the writing around the same time. A suffering shared is a suffering halved, I appreciate our regular check-ins and your supportive words. I wish you the best of luck with your last pieces, almost there! It takes much effort and discipline to write a thesis while taking care of a young family and working on a career at the same time, and you did it!! Well done! To my former AMC colleagues: The two offices, the so-called AIO kamers (though in fact there were very few real “AIO’s”…) hosted many of us in the course of the years. It has been a long time since then, so I apologize in advance if I have forgotten someone: Martine, Martin, Linda, Timon, Harmen, Mahnoush, Zemin, Richard, Sander, Robbert, Patricia, Kinga, Diewertje, Nerissa, Arwen, but also colleagues from adjacent kamers and labs: Hans, Loes B., Elena, Alessandra, Nike, Leonie, Anand, Lucia, Avanita, Frederike, Thera, Roy, Lotte, Anneke, Annemieke, Wilco, Emanuele, Patrick, Chiel, Gwen, Willem, Marcel J., Marcel S., Jeroen B., Michaela, Dat, Alex dB., Alex M., Robert, Jasper, Remco, Sandrine, Mark, Jaklien, Monique, Jitske, Esther, Lionel and the PhD students from other groups or institutes: Anouk, Rebecca, Jan-Jaap, Malou, Nazanin, Dita, Loes J, Christina, Arnold, Katka, I am grateful to have shared the PhD experience with you, many thanks for all the lab/office/conference/retreat gezelligheid! Here, I would also like to highlight our periodic outings to the gym. Martine, Martin, Linda, Wilco, Marcel J., Hans, and Lotte as the core-group, and the very occasional visits of Jeroen B., Harmen, and Elena. This initiative, named Sporten en Saunen bij Science Park, kept us healthy and in shape during our academic endeavors. Which was also very much needed considering the damage inflicted by the borrels on the bridge, kerst borrels, borrels in Het Oude Gasthuis, Pinkpop weekend, stappen in Groningen, the 80’s and 90’s in Panama, Epsteinbar visits, etc. Last year we organized a revival of this initiative with few of
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