Sumoylation modulates NFATc1-mediated lymphokine gene expression [Elektronische Ressource] / Arnab Nayak

Sumoylation Modulates NFATc1-mediatedLymphokine Gene ExpressionDissertation for the completion of doctorate degree in NaturalSciences at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität WürzburgArnab NayakAnguna, WB, IndiaiAcknowledgementsFirst of all, I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Friederike Berberich-Siebelt for theexcellent step-by-step guidance, for being available all the time for discussions and mostimportantly, her personal care for me. She always helped me to stay focused on my study. Nowords can explain how nicely she encouraged me after each and every failure throughout mystay as a PhD student with her. Her critical comments to my results and suggestion for futureexperiments were very helpful to execute my study in an ordered manner. Apart from scientificfront, I learnt some crispy German vocabulary and a great glimpse of German culture from her.I would like to thank my Doctor father Prof. Dr. Edgar Serfling, for providing me an opportunityto work in his laboratory. His friendly and constructive criticism had immense impact to refinemy experiments. It was really great to work with a fun loving and enthusiastic person like him.I am thankful to my PhD committee member PD. Dr. Robert Hock for being helpful andavailable for answering all kinds of questions that were put to him.I thank to Prof. Dr. Thomas Hünig, the speaker of our graduate college GK-520, for providingmy fellowship.