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A computational tool that will transform bacterial genome analysis 26 April 2024
Whether a microbe is beneficial or harmful to a plant can now be predicted with high accuracy thanks to bacLIFE. This bioinformatic tool with an intui...
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Student tower opened with café, common room and spectacular views 26 April 2024
The 289 students who recently moved into the tower on Kolffpad at the Leiden Bio Science Park are sitting pretty. They have the keys to a self-contain...
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Remarkable achievement: Leiden professor appointed AAAS Fellow 26 April 2024
Carlo Beenakker has been appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the organisation behind the journal Sci...
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Leiden University starts dismissal procedure against professor on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour 25 April 2024
A professor from Leiden University, together with a former employee (who is also the professor’s partner), has been guilty of long-term unacceptable a...
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15th Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition (18-20 April 2024) 25 April 2024
Leiden’s International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL) was delighted to co-organise the 15th edition of the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law ...
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How a healing field trip inspired Alexia to take the stage at TEDxLeidenUniversity 25 April 2024
One day you feel inspired by a field trip, the next you are a speaker at TEDxLeidenUniversity. It happened to International Relations student Alexia. ...
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Intriguing food reflex discovered with a smartphone 25 April 2024
Psychologist Hilmar Zech found that overweight people are actually more attracted to food pictures after eating than before. He did so using an old re...
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Simulation of infant gut makes predictions about optimal milk 25 April 2024
David Versluis successfully simulated an infant gut virtually. This is crucial for research on improvements in formula milk. Currently, such research ...
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Carlotta Rigotti and Gianclaudio Malgieri on sexual violence and harassment in the metaverse 25 April 2024
On 24 April 2024, Carlotta Rigotti and Gianclaudio presented their new report on sexual violence and harassment in the metaverse during a webinar co-o...
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PhD defence Wessel Geursen, Christa Tobler member of the reading and examining committees 25 April 2024
On 19 April 2024, Wessel Geursen, former associate at the Department of European Law of Leiden University, defended his dissertation on 'Mapping the T...
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New report on age assurance by Simone van der Hof and Mohammed Raiz Shaffique 25 April 2024
Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at eLaw, and Mohammed Raiz Shaffique, Researcher and PhD candidate at eLaw, have publish...
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Leiden student Lucas Pistorius wins Moot Court competition on day of Thorbecke Lecture 25 April 2024
The 2024 Thorbecke Lecture was held on Friday 19 April, with the theme of ‘The role of the Court of Justice in protecting the consumer’. Before the le...
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands 24 April 2024
When you hear ‘Black Power’, you probably think of the United States. But in the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of th...
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Making sustainable biotechnology a reality: joined forces aim to improve biocatalysts 24 April 2024
Everything biobased: Plastic, medicine and fuel. It seems like a futuristic utopia. But for how long? A collaboration of researchers now proposes an ...
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Interdisciplinary book symposium: ‘Confronting Colonial Objects’ 24 April 2024
OpinioJuris, one of the world’s leading international law blogs, has hosted an interdisciplinary online symposium on Professor Carsten Stahn’s new boo...