214 | Appendix us, ended up doing Prison Island, which we decided to count as “sport”. Hopefully more sportive revivals are to come! Marcel J, thank you very much for designing the cover of the thesis! You did a great job visualizing my scattered ideas, and you were very patient with the questions, comments and adjustments! Best of luck with your adventures in Switzerland! Patrick, thank you for your help, especially in the last few years, with IT matters like resuscitating my old AMC guest account, helping me to set up remote access, and with other IT questions and problems I was coming up with. Best of luck with your football-coaching dream. In the last years, I have also had the pleasure of meeting some of the more current PhD students in the Pathology labs: Hildo, Guus, Tijmen, Linda G. and Maria: best of luck with your research and (sooner or later) with completing your doctorates! Analyzing data, writing and publishing articles, writing the thesis: all of this was the giant mountain that still needed to be climbed after the 4 years in the lab, and it was following me like a shadow during my career outside of academia (until the day of the PhD defense). At this place, I would like to express my gratitude to my current and previous managers who showed a great deal of understanding for the shadows that were following me, and who made it possible to balance work, writing and family. André, on several occasions I heard you saying that an employee cannot flourish if their private life is out of balance. In relation to this thesis, about a year after starting my new job, you made it possible for me to temporarily work fewer hours and dedicate that time to writing, for which I am very grateful to you! In this period Chapter 4 was written. Jan, you expressed a lot of understanding and support when I presented to you my rather radical plans for the finalization of this thesis. Thank you for exploring the options and for thinking along. In this period, and especially in the period hereafter, Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 6 were written. Gera and Wilma, you hired me while knowing that you will need to wait quite some time for me to finalize all the remaining chapters before actually coming on board. In this period Chapter 7 and the Appendix chapters were written. Thank you for your patience, for understanding just how much de laatste loodjes wegen, and for making it possible in my first months to work fewer hours, leaving enough “thesis time” to round everything up. Importantly, I appreciate the supportive words of many of my (ex)colleagues from the post-academic era, and I am grateful for us staying in touch, following each other’s lives, becoming friends! Likewise, to all the friends outside of research/work area: my heartfelt thank you for all your support at some point along this journey! And then, none of this would really be possible if it was not for the unlimited support provided by my beloved family. To my in-laws Milan and Eva: thank you for your continued interest in my research, and especially many thanks to Milan for the long list of scientific articles you sent me over the course of this journey! (Svokrovcom: Ďakujem vám za vašu podporu, prejavovaný záujem o môj výskum a za množstvo zaslaných separátok! Veľmi si to
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