Mutation analysis of tissue sections and single cells using low-volume polymerase chain reaction [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Veronika Mayer

Mutation analysis of tissue sections and single cells using low-volume polymerase chain reaction Dissertation der Fakultät für Geowissenschaften der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München vorgelegt von Veronika Mayer 03. März 2010 Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl Zweitgutachter: PD Dr. Stefan Thalhammer, Universität Augsburg Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 12. Juli 2010 Acknowledgement First of all I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl for supervising my PhD thesis. I thank PD Dr. Stefan Thalhammer for the possibility of doing my work in his research group at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Special thanks go to Prof. Dr. med. Dipl. chem. Elke Holinski-Feder and the whole MGZ team for their extraordinary support and mentoring not only in experimental questions. Many thanks especially to Dr. Ulrike Schön, Dr. Udo Koehler and Christian Neukäufer for their encouragement and inspiration during the last three years. My colleagues Teresa Neumaier, Daniela Woide and Anna-Lena Idzko, I want to thank very much indeed for their friendship and a really great teamwork. Thanks a lot to all members of my working group and Anita Pedone at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Without their continuous help in technical, administrative and intellectual issues this thesis had not been possible.