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Dear small P, Patrik Andersson, thank you for your work on my PCR experiments, your brilliant jokes brought me a lot of fun. You are the youngest in the lab forever in my mind, I promise.
The cute girl—Jennifer Honek, we joined Professor Cao’s group during the same period and almost went through all the important steps of our PhD education together. Thank you for being a good company in various ways. Wish you a happy and sunny future!
Dr. Lasse Jenssen, you have been the idol for us since I met you, thank you for demonstrating your wonderful and colorful life to me-you are an outstanding young researcher, a passionate singer, a sincere friend and I believe you are an excellent husband for your wife because of your flawless character.
PhD student Ziquan Cao, thank you for your friendship, you are the first friend I made in the lab, those nice pictures you took captured all the very good moments and my happiness in Sweden.
Dr. Renhai Cao and Li Chen, thank you for sharing your experience on staining and confocal techniques. Especially, it is very helpful that both of you told me a lot about the daily life in Sweden.
I also owe my sincere gratitude to The Three Musketeers from Japan—Takahiro Seki, Masaki Nakamura, Hideki Iwamoto, you are all real men with immense sense of responsibility to your work and your families. Thank you for your wise suggestions to my work, and it is grateful to learn accuracy and rigorous attitude to work from you.
To the younger group members, Carina Fischer, Jian Wang, Mamiko Kiyohara and Wenyi Zheng, thank you all for bringing me fresh vitality and hope.
To the former friends and colleagues who have left the lab, Ying Zhao, Jeannette Söderberg, Ceylan Sönmez, Olivier Dubey, Pegah Rouhi, Eva-Maria Hedlund, Danfang Zhang, Yuan Xue, Xiaoyun Chen, Meili Sun, thank you all for your kindness and grateful suggestions to me during the past few years.
I would give my acknowledgement to Marcus Ladds who carefully checked the thesis.
Thanks to the other MTCers: Technicians-Magnus Bjurström and Torbjörn Laggar, Educational administrator-Anita Wallentin, Director of third level studies-Dr. Velmurugesan Arulampalam, Katrin Pütsep, HR administrator-Lina Rejnö, Personnel supervisor-Helene Stambeck, and Professor Ingemar Ernberg. Thank you all for always offering me your help in time whenever I approached to you.
My sincere thanks should also go to the staffs working in MTC animal facility: Torunn Söderberg, Kenth Andersson, Elin Hildekrans, Helen Braxenholm and the KI veterinary -Anna Granlund. Thank you for taking care of my animals and making the animal house to a comfortable working place.
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Thanks to Birgitta Wester for running tremendous amount of FACS samples for me, without your help, it is impossible to complete my project now.
Dr. Fredrik Tholander at MBB, one of my best collaborators, thank you for providing me your super professional assistance in HPLC and making great progress for our projects. Dr.
Kjell Hultenby in LABMED, thank you for teaching me how to analysis my images and moreover, you have tried your best to collect electronic microscope data for me.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all my friends at MTC: Qinzi Yan, Hai Li, Xiaogang Feng, Yu Gao, Honglei Zhao, Sadia Salam, Xingqi Chen, Yao Shi, Soazig Le Guyon, we had interesting talks on various topics and enjoyed happy lunch time together.
I feel grateful to all the excellent stomatologists who have helped me: Professor Weidong Tian, Professor Wei Tang, Professor Hang Wang, Professor Lei Liu, Professor Yunfeng Lin, Professor Shengwei Li, Jingang Xiao, Yongdai Shen, Wei Jing, Weihau Guo, Xiaoyu Li, Ling Wu, Thank you for keeping close touch with me even though I am far away from you. It is you who keep my knowledge of stomatology updated.
To my dear friends in China: Fan Feng, Renke Wang, Shujuan Guo, Fenchen Chen, Jing Guo, Hongxia Dan, Jiazeng Dong, Yan He, Yao Shu, Jingyi Zheng, Ya Wang, Jian Yang and Meng You. Thank you for encouraging me with your positive heart and mind, as well as sharing your stories and reflection on life with me.
My sincere thanks are also given to my mentor Dr. Sonia Lain, my public defense opponent Dr. Jenny L Persson, members of the examination board: Dr. Charlotte Rolny, Professor Laszlo Szekely, Professor Keiko Funa, thank you for offering me valuable suggestions on my thesis.
Last but not least, I would like to express my gratitude to my beloved family: My mother Lan and my father Min, I am greatly indebted to you and your love since my childhood. No matter where I am, my heart is always beside you, I have grown up and will not be scared any more. To my husband wawa, thank you for your loving considerations and all you have done for me. I can never say enough words to show my appreciation to you.
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