297 Acknowledgments | Agradecimientos | Eskerrak gracias a Laura C por esas charlas reflexivas después del trabajo y, alguna que otra quedada en tu casita y de Michiel. Nicky and Femke, I am very happy to have joined you to this PhD experience. You have always remained calm, supportive and excited for each other’s good progress. I will make sure that we still see each other again! In the meantime, stay as cool! Pieter vdV and Peter, thanks for your empathetic hearts and spontaneous borrels, I wish you all the best to finish your educational PhDs. If somebody can do it, it’s you! My sincere acknowledgments to the scientific staff – Rob dG, Katinka, Guylaine, Marjan, Rob M and Suzanne – for addressing all my stressed-out questions. Special thanks to Rob dG, for all the sampling assistance and throwback travelling reflections. My appreciation to Marjan for exposing me to the world of climate activism, and Katinka for the outfit change prior to walking the Via Gladiolen. Likewise, my genuine gratitude to the very much helpful bioinformaticians – Tom, Theo, Geert, Garret and, more recently, Anna-Marie and Pedro. Special thanks to Garret for all the invites to Presikhaaf with Jessica R, and Tom for trusting me to become a very nervous game master. Pedro and Anna-Marie for “once-better-than-nothing” swimming and 1st - floor quiet time, respectively. Sebastian and Maartje for introducing me to the department and the nitrogen cycle with the love and hate relationship of anammox-comammox bacteria. I think Sebastian that the running hike at the GRC in Waterville was still a bit more challenging! Arjan and Huub, thank you for your natural curiosity about my project and for answering everything – from the most absurd to the most complex questions. Jan and Wouter M, icons of Animal Physiology and Microbiology, thank you for the light-hearted hallway conversations. Special recognition to Jan for being a lifesaver when it came to qPCR troubleshooting! Also, thanks for the help of the MARIX team: Caroline, Isabel, Lina, Marit, Niels, Olga and Wytze. Shout-out to Isabel for joining me on a 4daagse hike to Warwick Castle, and to Lina – you have my respect for balancing a PhD while owning such beautiful birds. Likewise, I appreciate the help from Niels, Olga, and Wytze during my one and only field trip. And Marit, thank you for letting me try the best hockey stick I’ve ever used! A
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