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Former IBL PhD-student Michelle Spierings wins prize for best dissertation 23 April 2018Michelle 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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Hunt for fundamental insight into and treatment for cancer 05 December 2017To develop good cancer treatments, we need to know much more about how malignant tumour cells develop. Professor Ewa Snaar-Jagalska looks at not just ...
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IBL-research interview: Maurijn van der Zee 20 November 2017Maurijn van der Zee, at the IBL since 2010, investigates how genetic changes in developmental programs lead to new animal forms in evolution, using in...
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Veni-grant for Fleur Visser to study whale behaviour 31 July 2017Fleur Visser was awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). She is one of seventeen promising young Leiden sc...
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Macrophages as drivers of an opportunistic infection 07 July 2017The opportunistic bacterium Burkholderia cenocepacia is feared by cystic fibrosis patients and is emerging in hospital-acquired infections. An interna...
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Ewa Snaar-Jagalska appointed as Professor in the field of cellular tumor biology 24 May 2017From the 1st of April Ewa Snaar-Jagalska has been appointed Professor in the field of cellular tumor biology within the Faculty of Science at the Inst...
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Sound impact on fish populations 11 May 2017The first of April was the official start of Phase II of the collaborative “PCAD4Cod”-project on the effect of sound on fish populations. Hans Slabbek...
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Female songbirds: Make her voice heard! 11 April 2017Listening to birds and helping science, it is possible. Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) researchers Karan Odom and Katharina Riebel launched a citiz...
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The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes 10 April 2017Venomous animals serve as models for a variety of mimicry types. Michael Richardson (IBL) and his international colleagues find that a group of fishes...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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Mysteries in snake venom evolution 08 December 2016A new analysis of the king cobra genome by Michael Richardson, Christian Henkel (IBL) and collaborators at the IBL and Naturalis, Helsinki and Singapo...