News
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Inaugural lecture Annemarie Meijer 21 September 2015
On Monday 21 September Annemarie Meijer, Professor of Immunobiology, presented her inaugural lecture on immunobiology and infectious disease.
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Veni grant for Biologist Wouter Halfwerk 31 July 2015
Wouter Halfwerk (IBL) received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for his research project on the influence of man...
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IBL-PhD-student Michelle Spierings talking science 01 June 2015
IBL-PhD-student Michelle Spierings delivered a great performance at the FameLab national final on the 21st of April. She is now also happy to be back ...
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Annemarie Meijer appointed full Professor of Immunobiology 01 May 2015
Annemarie Meijer is appointed full Professor of Immunobiology. Meijer’s research focuses on immunobiology and infectious disease. She uses the zebrafi...
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Update national FameLab competition 01 March 2015
Biologists Michelle Spierings and Ryan Bogaars will both join the Dutch Final of the FameLab Competition on April 21st in Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
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Leiden heat of FameLab Competition 01 February 2015
Biologists Michelle Spierings and Ryan Bogaars are 2 of the 4 winners of the Leiden heat for the international FameLab competition in talking science ...
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Snake Evolution 01 January 2015
A study by an international group of scientists headed by Prof. Michael Richardson showed that asymmetry in the snake lungs manifests itself early in ...
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“Kees Bakker" award for Thijmen Breeschoten 01 October 2014
Leiden Biology student Thijmen Breeschoten received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2013 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakke...
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Universal note preferences affect avian song learning 01 October 2014
A study in the Behavioral Biology group of Carel ten Cate at the IBL showed that experience-dependent and -independent preferences influence song lear...
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Switching lifestyles using hormones 01 August 2014
Vicencio Oostra, who defended his PhD-thesis at the IBL successfully in June 2013, published new insights into the hormonal regulation of butterfly re...
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New insight into tuberculosis infection 01 June 2014
Michiel van der Vaart with a team from Leiden University and the LUMC, led by IBL-researcher Annemarie Meijer, discovered that DRAM1 is a protein that...
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Movements of steroid receptors inside the cell nucleus unraveled 01 April 2014
Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques have revealed how steroid receptors move inside the nucleus. The results were published by a team from Lei...
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Research Associate Fleur Visser received PhD-degree in Amsterdam 01 April 2014
On Thursday 24th of April, Fleur Visser successfully defended her PhD-thesis on social and migratory behaviour of dolphins and whales in the Agnietenk...
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Female birds sing more often than previously thought 01 March 2014
IBL-researcher Katharina Riebel, together with international collaborators, published a remarkable finding in Nature Communications on the prevalence ...
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NWO grant for super fast analysis of disease progression 01 February 2014
New funding allows IBL-researcher Herman Spaink to purchase a measurement device for more studies on human diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis us...