PhD thesis
PhD thesis
PhD thesis
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Acknowledgements<br />
The endeavour of such a <strong>thesis</strong> is impossible without the help of many people<br />
for whose support I am very grateful. Foremost I want to thank my principle<br />
supervisor Andreas Wanninger whose office door was always open and who<br />
did a great job in motivating and directing me towards the exciting parts of this<br />
study and especially the publication of the results.<br />
I am grateful to Pedro Martinez and his lab, namely Marta Chiodin, Amandine Bery,<br />
Eduardo Moreno, and Alexander Alsen for an inspiring time in Barcelona.<br />
I thank the teachers I had during <strong>PhD</strong> courses and who had a great influence on<br />
my thinking about the field of evo-devo, especially Billie Swalla, Ken Halanych,<br />
Alessandro Minelli, and Detlev Arendt.<br />
I thank the colleagues with whom I had the pleasure to share the room, lab,<br />
office, or a beer, Henrike Semmler, Nora Brinkmann, Tim Wollesen, Alen Kristof,<br />
Ricardo Neves, Julia Merkel, Birgit Meyer, Lennie Rotvit, Louise Würtz, Jan<br />
Bielecki, Jens Høeg, Lisbeth Haukrogh, Jan Lybeck, and visiting guests at the<br />
lab in Copenhagen.<br />
A special thank you to Anders Garm who translated the abstract into Danish.<br />
Many thanks go to the staff at the marine stations where I collected animals,<br />
in particular the Friday Harbor Laboratories, the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine<br />
Sciences, the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-mer, and the<br />
Moreton Bay Research Station.<br />
A special thank you goes to my wife Ruth who supported my work wherever<br />
she could and who took especially during the time in Barcelona the “burden” of<br />
caring full time almost alone for our son.<br />
This study was financially supported by a grant from the Danish Agency for<br />
Science, Technology and Innovation (grant no. 645-06-0294 to Andreas<br />
Wanninger) and a travel grant from Friday Harbor Labs to the author for<br />
participation in their summer course.