Theoretical and experimental examination of EGF receptor endocytosis [Elektronische Ressource] / presented by Hannah Schmidt-Glenewinkel

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• Publié par: ruprecht-karls-universitat_heidelberg
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 14
• Langue: English
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Dissertation
for the degree of
Doctor of Natural Sciences
submitted to the
Combined Faculties for the Natural Sciences and for Mathematics
of Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany
presented by
Dipl.-Biomath. Hannah Schmidt-Glenewinkel
born in Frankfurt am Main
Oral examination: October 8, 20082Diese Arbeit ist meiner Gro mutter
Dr. rer. nat. Annemarie Schmidt-Glenewinkel, geb. Wallach
gewidmet.Acknowledgements
I would like to thank a whole group of colleagues who have become friends, without whom the
dissertation here would not have been completed.
First, there is Ivayla, who was the rst person I ever worked with ’seriously’ on a common project
- I am afraid that she spoiled the standards for all successors in this role, as it is dicult to live up to
the helpfulness and insightfulness that she o ered to me. Her quiet way of contributing, helping me
to develop my own thoughts, as well as her sharp analytic mind have remained a role model for me.
I would also like to thank Joel, for his sheer endless patience and his generosity to o er his
comprehensive knowledge and experience. He sat numerous hours with me at the microscope, looking
at images that were barely recognizable, in my earliest e orts to do ’real experiments’. One of our rst
conversations, after I had decided to enter his lab, started with him asking "So, did you ever hold a
pipette in your hand?" - the fact that he didn’t throw me out immediately, after my vaguely mumbled
response (i did remember that there were two steps in emptying the pipette all the way!), characterizes
his optimism which I have witnessed often afterwards seeing him work with other students. I am deeply
thankful for the positive response he gave me on my advances from time to time, they are like gasoline
which keep you going for another while.
I would also like to thank Sven for being a great colleague. We have shared the o ce for almost
three years, and I estimate that he has saved me about 100 working hours with his knowledge on all
kinds of things, from LaTex to image formats to classes of di erential equations. I would like to thank
Yvonne and Annika, for their patience in listening to my complaints about ’how hard it is’. I also
want to thank the other lab members: Leo, Yara, Dani, Philip, Leo, Hee-Kyong and Marti, whose
presence is enjoyable and makes lab life much more cheerful. Special thanks goes to Sabine, who has
helped me in the lab numerous times, despite me being very unreliable about my lab tasks. Michaela
has helped me with her knowledge on all things that concern cells - I have not been able to come up
with a question that she doesn’t know the answer to or doesn’t have experience with. She is anotherexample of the fact that in the lab ’experience counts everything’.
Nathan was the one who actually pushed the project into elds where things became meaningful
for biology and not just modeling. He has the eye of an experienced experimentalists and while it was
sometimes painful for me to depart from my mathematician’s view, his requirements for biological
research have become standards for me to aspire to.
Eunice has entered my personal scene late, but just at the right time, and I have learned valuable
lessons from her in ’letting go’ of things, such as, for example, half- nished dissertations. Thanks for
this.
Finally, the advisors. Benedikt has helped me only a few time (although I am not in his group),
but I can remember all of them and everytime they brought me a big step forward. I remember that
my rst question to him, after I had been here for a week or so, was "So, Benedikt, what IS a model?".
His answer was very helpful.
I would like to give special thanks to my second PhD advisor Ivan Dikic. His energy and love for
science, as well as his deep understanding of his subject, have been inspirational and deeply motivating.
I’m glad and grateful to have him as an advisor.
Roland Eils, my supervisor, I would like to thank for giving me the freedom to pursue the projects
as I wished to, with almost no limitations when it came to lab material and conferences to attend.
His generousity has allowed me and other students to develop projects according to our own taste and
possibilities. It has been a pleasure to work in his lab.
Als n achstes m ochte ich meinem Onkel Thomas danken, der mich im dritten Studiensemester
nach New York gelotst hat, mich bei sich hat wohnen lassen und immer wieder versucht hat, mir die
’ernste, deutsche Art’ auszutreiben (’Science is fun!’). Au erdem hat er gegen meinen Willen darauf
bestanden, dass ich einen Programmierkurs belege, was im weiteren schwerwiegende Folgen hatten.
Als letztes und am meisten von allen m ochte ich meinen Eltern dafur danken dass sie mich seit
Beginn meines Studiums der Naturwissenschaften bedingslos unterstutzt haben, sei es nanziell oder
’gemutlic h’. Ohne euch w are das alles hier viel schwieriger gewesen.
56Theoretical and Experimental Examination of EGF
Receptor Endocytosis
Referees: Prof. Dr. Roland Eils
Prof. Dr. Ivan Dikic
7The work presented in this thesis was carried out in the Division of Professor Dr. Roland Eils, Applied
Systems Biology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg from January 2005 to
March 2008. The thesis was supervised by Professor Dr. Roland Eils and Professor Dr. Ivan Dikic.
The work was nanced by the German Cancer Research Center.