I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all who have encouraged, supported and helped me for my PhD thesis and life during the long years at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Especially to:
My principle supervisor, Monica Nistér. Many thanks for accepting me as your PhD student in your group and giving me a chance to reset my study and life. Thanks for your support and advice in my research, to introduce me how to become an eligible PhD and scientist. Thanks for your patience and nice guidance like mother when I’m disappointed, confused and hot- headed during my study time. Especially, thanks for your careful reading and polishing for all of the manuscripts, study plan, half-time reports and thesis over and over again. That is super helpful. I learned a lot from you about the way of not just being a scientist, but also being a human and doing things. I feel lucky to meet you and work with you along the way of my PhD study.
My co-supervisor, Jian Zhao. Thanks a lot for guiding me in the research field of mitochondrial dynamics, spending a lot of energy, paying a lot of effort and giving me a lot of patience to teach me in the scientific knowledge, writing and lab work, and answer all of my questions during my PhD study time. Thanks for giving me the courage and faith to science, for working together with me throughout all of the projects and supporting me to overcome difficulties and finally finishing my PhD thesis. I hope to become an excellent scientist like you. Thanks also for giving me a lot of suggestion for my life in Sweden. I feel grateful to learn from you the passion in science and the professional way in work.
The crucial collaborator, Urban Lendahl. Thanks a lot for your amazing comments on our manuscript writing, for your extensive knowledge, valuable discussions and generous support on our projects of mitochondrial dynamics. It’s the great honor that I have this opportunity to work with you.
The important collaborator and teacher, Shao-Bo Jin. Many thanks for your careful guidance and generous help in my project, especially for the introductions of some new techniques and specific suggestion for work. In life, I really appreciate you and Jian preparing delicious food for me and making me warm at home when I stay in Sweden lonely.
My mentor, Anna Wedell. Thanks a lot for your nice encouragement and support during the whole period of my PhD study.
All of other collaborators and colleagues working for the four constituent papers in my thesis,
Tong Liu, Chenfei Ning, Fei Tan, Liwei Han. Thanks for all of your contributions to the
manuscript and the published papers. I truly treasure the time which we work together.
All of my former and present colleagues in Nistér group: Ann-Britt, Anna, Sanna,
Xiaobing, Inga, Toota, Mikael, Karl, Kaveh, Salah, Daniel, Min, Johanna, Teresita, Maxime, Elisa, Gabriela, Katarzyna, Saad, Martin, Jordi, Shiva, Evelina, Marjolein, Joseph, for all of your support and company. I would also like to thank all members in Nistér
family for giving me a great memory of the wonderful work environment, amazing Tuesday group meeting, happy Friday Fika and our old lab CCK R8:05.
34 Committee members for my half-time review, Maria Ankarcrona, Mimmi Shoshan and
Roland Nilsson, for nice suggestion to my projects. Ola Larsson, thanks for being the
chairperson in my defence.
All of the former and present administrators at CCK and the department of Oncology- Pathology. Erika Rindsjö, Sören, Eva-Lena, Hanna Sillén, Anne Jensen, Elisabeth, Elle,
Stig Linder, Andreas Lundqvist, Yvonne Brandberg, Lars Holmgren, etc. For all your
work and effort in administration.
All of my friends and colleagues at the department of Oncology-Pathology. Yingbo Lin,
Hong Xie, for sharing your techinques with me. Muyi Yang, for your help with the furniture
moving and nice Fika. Shuo Liang, for kindly sharing your experience of thesis printing with me. Xiaonan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Xianli Shen, Limin Ma, Qiang Zhang, Ninni
Mu, Yujuan Zheng, Lidi, Qiongzi, Xin Wang, Ziqing Chen, Hao Shi, Jiwei Gao, Yaxuan Liu, Ran Ma, Na Wang, Wen-Kuan Huang, Elin for the colourful life in CCK, wish you
the best for your work and life. And the new friends in BioClinicum, Huanhuan, Haitang,
Xia, Tianyi, Yachao, Xiaoqun, for the happy lunch time and chatting in the new building.
My friends previous or present working at Karolinska Institutet, Tiantian Liu, for the many happy days we spent together; Shaohua Xu & Zhang Lu, for sharing your experience of thesis preparation and happy chatting about life and work, I really learned a lot. Zhihua Wu,
Hua Xu, Ping Li, Jia Cao, for the generous help in life when I just arrived in Sweden. Xiaolu Zhang & Bingnan Li, for your organization of nice dinners and parties. Yabin Wei, Jiajia Liu, Xiaotian Yuan, Jingya Yu, Yujiao Wu, Quan Tang, Cheng Guo, and my
previous neighbours in the same corridor, Tingting Huang, Xinge Li, Chen Wang, Jiayao,
Xiangyu, Taimiao, Tianwei, for all of the fun days we have, wish you the best in your
future.
My friends in US, Bing Zhang, Jiying Ling&Fujun Wen, for our friendship since the master study.
My Master supervisor, Zhaoxu Liu. Thanks for introducing and sharing your study experience in Sweden, and giving me an opportunity to understand a different world. Thanks for your support during my master and PhD study.