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Biology students expose exotic amphibians in the dunes 01 December 2022
During the spring of 2021, a group of eight biology students from Leiden set out into the dunes in search of amphibians. Using DNA, they determined th...
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Improving the treatment of pathogenic fungi. ‘The process is working, but not that well…’ 08 September 2022
Fungi germinating in the lungs of patients. Doesn’t sound too nice, does it? Luckily, humans can deal with this normally, and we are able to clear the...
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Hans Slabbekoorn appointed professor: 'There are still gaps in our knowledge'. 08 September 2022
Hans Slabbekoorn is specialised in animal sounds. On 1 July, he was appointed professor of Acoustic ecology and behaviour. A great honour, according t...
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New insights into mycobacterial infections with NWO grant 28 July 2022
Why are mycobacteria such successful pathogens? And are there defence mechanisms in the body that help reduce an infection? To find out, Annemarie Mei...
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'I have always worked for a better world. Here at Biology we do the same' 06 July 2022
The new institute manager of the IBL studied biology for six months, but went in a completely different direction: development cooperation and the fin...
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Supergenes make bizarre traits possible 13 June 2022
Within the same species of butterfly many different wing patterns can occur. How is this possible? According to researchers Ben Wielstra and Emma Berd...
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Biologist Carel ten Cate will now really retire. Right? 08 June 2022
Pigeons, zebra finches and parakeets. Carel ten Cate studied bird sounds. But not just that. Together with linguists from Leiden, he investigated para...
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When does resistance to toxins evolve in animals? Students publish major review 23 May 2022
Does a snake die when it bites its lip? Why will a mongoose survive a scorpion’s sting, but we humans perish? These questions occupied the minds of to...
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis 24 March 2022
About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it ...
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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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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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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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Michelle Spierings aims for Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs with musicality animals 26 October 2021
Tapping to a rhythm, recognizing sound patterns and enjoying music: For people, it is common sense. But is this also the case for animals? It is the r...
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NWO grant of 350.000 for Wielstra lab 30 September 2021
Ben Wielstra and his team have received a ENW-M-1 grant. This grant of 354.000 euros is awarded by NWO, and will enable the researchers of the Institu...