Personal Recollections of Gregorio Weber, My Postdoc Advisor, and the Important Consequences for My Own Academic Career

Abstract

This is a personal account of my postdoctoral research period in 1976-1977 with Professor Gregorio Weber at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). For me it was a year of enlightenment that had a large impact on my own academic career. Since we worked on (high-pressure) fluorescence research on flavins and flavoproteins in Urbana, I describe in some-what larger detail our own completed research on this topic at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Because of increasing research interest in cellular biochemistry and biophysics we have founded the Microspectroscopy Centre in Wageningen harboring sophisticated fluorescence microscopy setups.