Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors:

1. Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
2. DSM
3. Netherlands Genomics Initiative
4. BaseClear
5. The Delft University of Technology Department of Bionanoscience
6. The Delft University of Technology Department of Biotechnology

The assistance of all advisors is very much appreciated. We would like to thank:

1. Prof.dr. J.T. (Jack) Pronk

• We owe many thanks to the inhabitants of the Enzymology labs, whom we constantly bugged with questions and requests. In particular we would like to thank:
  • Esengül Yildirim
  • Laura Koekkoek

• The people who made it possible to do this project, by providing lab space and permits:

prof.dr. S. (Simon) de Vries

• • Dr. L.A. (Lesley) Robertson
  • Ing. S. (Susanne) Hage

• The people guiding us through the ethical research. Your help was largely appreciated:
  • Ir. S. (Steven) Flipse
  • Dr. D.R. (David) Koepsell
  • Drs. D. (Daan) Schuurbiers

• All the people that attended the brainstorming session at the beginning of the project

• Everybody we forgot

• We would also like to thank Ewout Boelsums for allowing us to use his panorama of Delft's market square on our website.

• And last but definitely not least, we would like to thank our supervisors for the opportunity they gave us to work on this projects and their indestructible help, great feedback, humor and kindness and specifically the time they spend guiding us successfully through the project.