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Marcel Schaaf: 'Lecturers need to come off their islands' 09 March 2022
Biologist Marcel Schaaf is one of four science faculty members who achieved the Senior Teaching Qualification in Leiden last year. How was that and wh...
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No venom resistance in snake-eating birds: ‘They just don’t need it’ 14 February 2022
To eat or get eaten. It describes the evolutionary race of snakes versus the mammals and birds that prey on these snakes. Muzaffar Ali Khan devoted hi...
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Innovative Leiden research receives NWO grant 08 February 2022
On January 24 Professor Annemarie Meijer and Dr Sander Wezenberg received a NWO grant for their research. The grant was awarded within the Open Compet...
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Four science professors receive Senior Teaching Qualification certificate 31 January 2022
Out of fifteen Senior Teaching Qualification certificates (SKO) awarded by the University this year, four go to the Faculty of Science. With congratul...
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Combining research and a good cause: Tutoring programme concludes successfully 18 January 2022
More than a course. That was the aim of the Leiden Tutoring programme. Through weekly tutoring lessons, students did not just earn five EC. They helpe...
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Dangerous microbes in lower level safety lab? A new technique could make it possible 18 January 2022
Researchers need to work in specialized environments when they work with dangerous bacteria and viruses. These microbes spread easily, so only in labs...
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Revolutionizing plant protection strategies: Ding lab receives 2.4M grant to investigate plant immunity 10 January 2022
Plant biologist Pingtao Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), has received a 2.4 million European grant from the Europea...
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Veni-grant for Michelle Spierings: ‘Do birds hear tick-tock too, or tock-tick?’ 22 December 2021
‘I did not expect to receive the grant, but it will make an amazing research possible,’ Michelle Spierings says. The researcher of the Institute of Bi...
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Davy de Witt: ‘I have really made this into my own place’ 15 December 2021
‘To be honest, I don’t really care about what type of research is going on. Just let me do my own thing and everything is fine,’ according to biotechn...
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Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers 14 December 2021
Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elab...
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Student discovers new shrimp species by chance 13 December 2021
When biology student Mike Groenhof was making a phylogenetic tree of fifty shrimp species for his internship, one specimen turned out to be an undescr...
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Down-to-earth biology student wins Young Talent Award 08 December 2021
Gijs van der Velden has one of the best study results in his first college year of all science studies. With that, he won the Young Talent Incentive a...
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These Science students excelled and won a KHMW Young Talent Prize 06 December 2021
No fewer than seven Leiden FWN students received a Young Talent Award from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences on Monday, 29 November. Mark van den Bo...
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Record number of registrations for PhD course microscopy 06 December 2021
‘Microscopy is by far the least understood, most inefficiently operated, and the most abused of all laboratory instruments,’ reads the quote on the of...
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New toolbox helps scientists measure impact science communication 06 December 2021
Scientists regularly appear in the media. They participate in science cafés, write a popular-science book or visit school classes. In that way, they w...