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Remko Offringa appointed Professor in the field of Plant Developmental Genetics 04 April 2017Remko Offringa has been appointed Professor in the field of Plant Developmental Genetics within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology Lei...
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Thousands of images of frozen bacteria 28 March 2017How do bacteria sense and adapt to their environment? Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural Biology, is intrigued by this question. Using new t...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Biology Career Event: great atmosphere and useful tips 14 March 2017On February 24, 2017, the Institute of Biology Leiden organised the first edition of the Biology Career Event. The career event for third year bachelo...
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Prof. Marin van Heel awarded Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2017 23 February 2017Prof. Dr. Ir. Marin van Heel, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (NeCEN), is one of the winners of the “Wiley Prize in Biomedical S...
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New IBL-professor in "Computational Biology": Vera van Noort 06 February 2017Vera van Noort has been appointed Professor in the field of Computational Biology within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology from the 1...
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Alexander van Oudenhoven Discoverer of the year 2016 10 January 2017Environmental scientist Alexander van Oudenhoven has been chosen as Discoverer of the year of the Faculty of Science. Vice Rector Magnificus Hester Bi...
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Pam Engelberts receives the “Kees Bakker Award” 10 January 2017Leiden Biology student Pam Engelberts received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2016 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fon...
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A clear picture of bacteria 10 January 2017Freezing bacteria super fast to gain a true-to-nature image of the internal and external structure. Ariane Briegel Professor of Ultrastructural Biolog...
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'In an ideal world we would recycle everything' 06 January 2017Merijn Tinga hit the headlines in 2016 as the Plastic Soup Surfer. In force six winds, the Leiden biologist ventured across the English Channel on a h...
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European project ImageInLife has started 06 January 2017The Horizon 2020 project ImageInLife has started on 1 January, followed by a kick-off meeting at the coordinating University of Montpellier at the end...
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‘Decolonise the botanical treasure house’ 05 January 2017The treasure houses of Leiden's University Library and Naturalis house wonderful historical collections with dried plants and botanical drawings. Prof...
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Leiden biologist receives National Zoology Award 22 December 2016Maurijn van der Zee, evolutionary biologist at the IBL, received the National Zoology Award for his research on the evolutionary success of the insect...
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Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China 16 December 2016The Faculty of Science has reinforced the collaboration in China during a group trip late November. Representatives from four institutes visited ten C...
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NWO grants two IBL-proposals by interdisciplinary research consortia 15 December 2016Recently, NWO has decided to grant two interdisciplinary research proposals for national and international consortia submitted by researchers from the...