A DNA-microarray screening: {_d63-catenin [delta-catenin], a new mediator of Eph-ephrin signaling [Elektronische Ressource] / eingereicht von Luca Dolce

For Takeshi B. AcknowledgementsI wish to thank my thesis supervisor Dr. Rüdiger Klein who gave me the opportunity to do my PhD work in his lab and directed my scientific work all these years.Special thanks to Dr. Tomoko Iwata for offering me a fruitful collaboration and for supervising the first part of my PhD studies.I thank all my collaborators, especially Guido Panté and Lu Qun for providing tools to do my studies and interesting discussion. Special thanks also to lab members Joaquim Egeaand Jenny Köhler who very kindly provided DNA constructs and antibodies.I thank Angel Nebreda at EMBL as member of my thesis committee for his precious suggestions.Special Thanks to Sidney Cambridge for critically reading and proofreading this thesisand for his friendship. I acknowledge all members of the Klein lab for providing a great environment both in the lab and in the Biergarten. Especially I am grateful to Svetla Dimitrova, Joaquim Egea, Jenny Köhler, Archana Mishra, Laura Knott, Elsa Martinez, Taija Mäkkinen, Stefan Weinges and Manuel Zimmer, for their help, critical discussions and friendship. I would like to thank all the people at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology who have supported and encouraged my work, especially the members of the labs of Amparo Acker-Palmer and Gaia Tavosanis for their discussions during our joint group meetings.