Shedding light on Plasmodium knowlesi food vacuoles [Elektronische Ressource] / Victoria Jeffers

Dissertation submitted to the Combined Faculties for the Natural Sciences and for Mathematics of the Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany for the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences presented by Victoria Jeffers born in Drogheda, Ireland November 2010 1 Shedding light on Plasmodium knowlesi food vacuoles Victoria Jeffers Supervisors: Prof. dr. M. Lanzer University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg Dr. L. Steinmetz European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg 2 The work described in this dissertation was carried out at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands and the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, under the supervision of Dr. Clemens Kocken and Prof. dr. Michael Lanzer, between October 2006 and September 2010. 3 Author’s declaration I hereby declare that I have written the submitted dissertation myself and in this process have used no other sources or materials than those expressly indicated. I have not applied to be examined at any other institution, nor have I used the dissertation in this or any other form at any other institution as an examination paper, nor submitted it to any other faculty as a dissertation.