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Chapter 8<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

This work would not have been possible without the great support of a number of<br />

people. I would like to heartily thank<br />

Ille Gebeshuber for showing me wonderful science, for her great enthusiasm<br />

and all the long hours reading and correcting the manuscript,<br />

Friedrich Aumayr for his patience as well as for his encouragement and the<br />

constructive criticism regarding my work,<br />

Herbert Stachelberger for helping me with fluorescence microscopy at the<br />

Institut für Verfahrenstechnik and for sharing his motivation and enthusiasm,<br />

Paolo Gualtieri, Laura Barsanti and their group at the Institute of Biophysics<br />

at the CNR in Pisa, Italy, for introducing me to Euglena gracilis and related<br />

laboratory techniques as well as providing samples for my AFM investigations,<br />

the members of the Arbeitsgruppe "Atomic and Plasma Physics" at the<br />

Institut für Allgemeine Physik, especially Michael Brunmayr, Christoph<br />

Gösselsberger, Oliver Hekele, Donat Holzer, Katharina Igenbergs, Cezary<br />

Pieczetowski and Robert Ritter for fruitful discussions and a cheerful time,<br />

the friendly and supportive staff at the Institute für Allgemeine Physik, making<br />

it a pleasure to work there,<br />

my family for continuous support,<br />

Rosika for motivating me to get things done,<br />

& all the others who were there when I needed them.<br />

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