Acknowledgement section of a PhD thesis
Created | Updated Nov 16, 2009
Acknowledgements
Looking back four and a half years since I came to Kochi University, what an amazing journey it has been for me! Encompassing both good times -that I will remember forever because it were aplenty, and not-so-good times- yet I didn’t sway from my conscience, this assiduous hike wouldn’t have accomplished without tremendous help and support I gratefully received from many individuals as highlighted below.
Prof. Kazuo Okuda, my thesis supervisor, deserves special thanks; our discussions never failed to provide me with encouragement and new direction. Days of my graduate experience under his guidance turned me from just, but arrogant individual to just, but arrogant individual who might actually know something about algae. Dr. Satoshi Kubota, my thesis advisor, meticulously taught me many new biochemical and molecular biological lab techniques that are the backbone of this thesis. His very prompt and satisfying responses to my constant- often arduous-emails as well as his strong undercurrent of encouragements merit ineffable gratitude. Prof. Yoshinori Morooka helped me immensely, especially during my not-so-good times, through his persuasive and reassuring verbal support. Without these three academicians’ sincere succor, I wouldn’t have survived at Kochi University, honestly.
Ms. Grace Saldajeno, I am so much indebted to your continued support in many spheres throughout my life in Japan that include much needed financial support during the last 5 months when I was struggling to find a part-time job, inspirations to persevere during my hard-boiled times, biostatistics, manuscript and thesis proofing and so on. Big thanks to you, my kapatid! Dr. Masanori Hiraoka, you have helped me greatly when I first came to Japan and incited me with an interest to work on Monostroma. Thank you very much! Dr. Ichiro Mine, I am very much courteous to your scrupulous criticisms on my work-flow that prompted me to improve and critical reading of my manuscripts that are doubtlessly time-consuming.
Research presented in this thesis was largely an outcome of a collaborative effort involving essential contributions from many individuals. If KU allowed it, I would have listed them as co-authors of this thesis, but I guess they’ll have to settle with brief, inadequate mention in this section. Dr. Satoshi Shimada helped with DNA sequencing; Drs. Masafumi Iima, Norishige Yotsukura, Ryuta Terada, Miyuki Maegawa, Christine A Maggs and Frédéric Mineur assisted during sample acquisition; Drs. Frédéric Mineur and Amy Lynn Carlile helped with suggesting methodological improvisations; Drs. M.P.Ajaikumar, Paul. W. Gabrielson, Hansen I. Gayle, Frédéric Mineur and six journal-recruited anonymous reviewers helped with proofing various manuscripts. Mr. Paul Elvira, Alex Camaya, Akihide Tokuyama, Takuya Sugawara and Ms. Hiroko Haraguchi helped with various lab chores.
This thesis was partially supported by scholarship and contingencies from Japanese Government Monbukagakusho: MEXT International PhD program for which I am very thankful. I also express my gratitude for National Science Foundation, USA for supporting my 5 weeks long summer research and training (Marine Botany) at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington that enormously helped me in developing molecular and field identification skills. Thank you Drs. Charles O’Kelly and Paul W Gabrielson- my instructors at FHL, for your effective training sessions and inciting me to have an interest in phylogeny reconstruction. A student bursary awarded by the British Phycological Society enabled me to present some of the findings described in this thesis (Chapters 3 and 5) at 57th Winter Meeting, the Natural History Museum, London on January, 2009.
Acquisition of many out-of-print and foreign language manuscripts, as well as its translation into English had been a laborious task, but the help I received from Drs. Maria Kahlert, Ian Jenkinson and Frédéric Mineur deserve sincere appreciation. Dr. Taizo Motomura kindly provided access to the personal library of Prof.em. Masakazu Tatewaki at the Institute of Algological Research, Hokkaido University where I acquired copies of key Japanese publications. Spending many days at the British Library, London wouldn’t have been so satiating and productive without sincere support from the BL staffs that I overwhelmingly received. The way Google Scholar indexes scientific articles with many great search controls and providing access to full text resources free of charge are tour de force for sure. I have also frequently made use of the two Phycological taxonomy databases: AlgaeBase maintained by NUI, Dublin and Index Nominum Algarum maintained by UC Berkely. I am sincerely thankful to the providers and contributors of these three websites.
Foremost, without my parents, sister and brother-in-law by my side through the most difficult times of this journey, accomplishment wouldn’t have been half sweet.
Thank you, everyone.
Looking back four and a half years since I came to Kochi University, what an amazing journey it has been for me! Encompassing both good times -that I will remember forever because it were aplenty, and not-so-good times- yet I didn’t sway from my conscience, this assiduous hike wouldn’t have accomplished without tremendous help and support I gratefully received from many individuals as highlighted below.
Prof. Kazuo Okuda, my thesis supervisor, deserves special thanks; our discussions never failed to provide me with encouragement and new direction. Days of my graduate experience under his guidance turned me from just, but arrogant individual to just, but arrogant individual who might actually know something about algae. Dr. Satoshi Kubota, my thesis advisor, meticulously taught me many new biochemical and molecular biological lab techniques that are the backbone of this thesis. His very prompt and satisfying responses to my constant- often arduous-emails as well as his strong undercurrent of encouragements merit ineffable gratitude. Prof. Yoshinori Morooka helped me immensely, especially during my not-so-good times, through his persuasive and reassuring verbal support. Without these three academicians’ sincere succor, I wouldn’t have survived at Kochi University, honestly.
Ms. Grace Saldajeno, I am so much indebted to your continued support in many spheres throughout my life in Japan that include much needed financial support during the last 5 months when I was struggling to find a part-time job, inspirations to persevere during my hard-boiled times, biostatistics, manuscript and thesis proofing and so on. Big thanks to you, my kapatid! Dr. Masanori Hiraoka, you have helped me greatly when I first came to Japan and incited me with an interest to work on Monostroma. Thank you very much! Dr. Ichiro Mine, I am very much courteous to your scrupulous criticisms on my work-flow that prompted me to improve and critical reading of my manuscripts that are doubtlessly time-consuming.
Research presented in this thesis was largely an outcome of a collaborative effort involving essential contributions from many individuals. If KU allowed it, I would have listed them as co-authors of this thesis, but I guess they’ll have to settle with brief, inadequate mention in this section. Dr. Satoshi Shimada helped with DNA sequencing; Drs. Masafumi Iima, Norishige Yotsukura, Ryuta Terada, Miyuki Maegawa, Christine A Maggs and Frédéric Mineur assisted during sample acquisition; Drs. Frédéric Mineur and Amy Lynn Carlile helped with suggesting methodological improvisations; Drs. M.P.Ajaikumar, Paul. W. Gabrielson, Hansen I. Gayle, Frédéric Mineur and six journal-recruited anonymous reviewers helped with proofing various manuscripts. Mr. Paul Elvira, Alex Camaya, Akihide Tokuyama, Takuya Sugawara and Ms. Hiroko Haraguchi helped with various lab chores.
This thesis was partially supported by scholarship and contingencies from Japanese Government Monbukagakusho: MEXT International PhD program for which I am very thankful. I also express my gratitude for National Science Foundation, USA for supporting my 5 weeks long summer research and training (Marine Botany) at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington that enormously helped me in developing molecular and field identification skills. Thank you Drs. Charles O’Kelly and Paul W Gabrielson- my instructors at FHL, for your effective training sessions and inciting me to have an interest in phylogeny reconstruction. A student bursary awarded by the British Phycological Society enabled me to present some of the findings described in this thesis (Chapters 3 and 5) at 57th Winter Meeting, the Natural History Museum, London on January, 2009.
Acquisition of many out-of-print and foreign language manuscripts, as well as its translation into English had been a laborious task, but the help I received from Drs. Maria Kahlert, Ian Jenkinson and Frédéric Mineur deserve sincere appreciation. Dr. Taizo Motomura kindly provided access to the personal library of Prof.em. Masakazu Tatewaki at the Institute of Algological Research, Hokkaido University where I acquired copies of key Japanese publications. Spending many days at the British Library, London wouldn’t have been so satiating and productive without sincere support from the BL staffs that I overwhelmingly received. The way Google Scholar indexes scientific articles with many great search controls and providing access to full text resources free of charge are tour de force for sure. I have also frequently made use of the two Phycological taxonomy databases: AlgaeBase maintained by NUI, Dublin and Index Nominum Algarum maintained by UC Berkely. I am sincerely thankful to the providers and contributors of these three websites.
Foremost, without my parents, sister and brother-in-law by my side through the most difficult times of this journey, accomplishment wouldn’t have been half sweet.
Thank you, everyone.
