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Dunea and Leiden University in search of dune restoration 27 June 2018
What role do the soil and soil organisms play in the restoration of nature quality? This is what researchers at Leiden University are going to find ou...
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Institute of Biology Leiden assessed as excellent 25 June 2018
An external visitation committee gave the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) an outstanding assessment. In terms of research quality and relevance to s...
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The underwater Hobbit – a new shrimp species 08 June 2018
‘In a hole under water there lived a hobbit’: a new species of shrimp named after Bilbo Baggings. Biology student Werner de Gier described this newly ...
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Using fungi to produce renewable energy 05 June 2018
Ebru Alazi ‘hacked’ an enzyme-producing system in the fungus Aspergillus niger in order to produce renewable energy more easily. She manipulated the f...
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Students solve spider mystery in Borneo 17 May 2018
They sprayed with corn starch and made detailed drawings of the genitalia of spiders. In different ways students studied spiders in the dense tropical...
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‘The Tahiti Sandpiper is my Night Watch’' 17 May 2018
In 1800, French explorer Nicolas Baudin led an important scientific expedition to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia, Timor and South Africa. He returned ...
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Fifty Shades of Stress 15 May 2018
The challenge: Building a tool to detect chemical compounds that individually cause non-lethal stress to bacteria, but that are lethal in combination....
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Nathaniel Martin new IBL professor in Bioorganic Chemistry 14 May 2018
Nathaniel Martin has been appointed professor in the field of Bioorganic Chemistry within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology Leiden, s...
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Tackling messy blood vessels to fight cancer 04 May 2018
With a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros, Professor of Mathematical biology Roeland Merks will look for ways to fix messy and leaky blood vessels in tum...
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Martienke Baaij receives the “Kees Bakker Award” 26 April 2018
Leiden Biology student Martienke Baaij received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2017 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fo...
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Former IBL PhD-student Michelle Spierings wins prize for best dissertation 23 April 2018
Michelle Spierings has been awarded the ‘Glushko Dissertation Prize’ for her thesis work on: ‘The Music of Language: Exploring grammar, prosody and rh...
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Five Leiden professors elected to KNAW 18 April 2018
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected five Leiden professors from different disciplines as new members. Two of the new member...
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17 mln subsidy to develop electron microscopy in the Netherlands 13 April 2018
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has made a subsidy of 17 million euros available to further develop a Netherlands network f...
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Subsidies for high-grade research facilities 12 April 2018
Three projects with Leiden researchers are to receive a subsidy from NWO for the construction or renovation of large-scale research facilities. They w...
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Students on expedition to Borneo 11 April 2018
Every two years, students from Leiden University go into the Malaysian rainforests of Borneo. There they speak with Malaysian people to discover the u...