Chararcterisation of fungal protein kinases involved in the regulation of the cell cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and of sexual development in Aspergillus nidulans

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To my parents Hüsnü & Saziye Sari iv Acknowledgement I am thankful to Gerhard Braus who gave me the opportunity to do my thesis in his department.Further, I want to thank Stefan Irniger, specially, for his excellent supervision during my PhD work. He had always good ideas which pushed my work always forward.Partick Dieckhoff, Melanie Bolte, Wiebke Meyer, and Dipak Maskey, and the two internship students Tülin Ersahin and Sevim Dalva contributed a lot for the success of this study. Especially Patrick Dieckhoff, who prepared me for the PhD work, I want to thank for his calm and friendly mentoring during my diploma thesis.To all members of the department-the Aspergillus group, the Verticillium group, the Neurospora group, and the yeast group-I want to thank for the warm working atmosphere, all of them always being friendly and helpful. Also for the help of the the two technicians in Hannover, Sybille Traupe and Armgard Janczikowski, I am thankfull.Of course I have to thank Özgür Bayram, who was always a precious friend and helped me a lot with the Aspergillus project. His support and contributions especially during the last year of my PhD work guaranteed the success of the Aspergillus project.The chats with Ingrid Bahr, Özgür Bayram, Marcia Kress, and the other lab colleques had been very relaxing during the day of work.For the relaxing atmosphere after work I want to thank my wife Ruhsan Sari. It was always restorative to play with my two sons, Muhammed Enes and Yusuf Emin, on weekends, although they always forced me to look spongebob on tv. All my accumulated frustation during the week, I could kick off on weekends. Special thanks to my soccer club AY YILDIZ! I want to thank my father, Hüsnü Sari, for the discipline he taught me and my mother, Saziye Sari, for the love she gave me. Finally, I want to thank my sisters Sultan and Elmas and my brother Mehmet, that I was never alone.