News
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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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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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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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Smallest-ever Leiden University logo 21 February 2018
The logo of Leiden University, with letters as small as a bacterium. Researchers from LUMC and the Institute of Biology have created the smallest logo...
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Science and business working together on affordable alternatives for antibiotics 19 December 2017
Almost fifty scientists and twenty companies will be working on developing new antibiotics and alternatives for antibiotics use. NWO and the Ministry ...
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Launching event National Antibiotic Development Platform 20 April 2017
Antibiotic resistance is one of the major threats to human health. This week the National Antibiotic Development Platform, NADP, was officially launch...
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A clear picture of bacteria 10 January 2017
Freezing bacteria super fast to gain a true-to-nature image of the internal and external structure. Ariane Briegel Professor of Ultrastructural Biolog...
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NWO grants two IBL-proposals by interdisciplinary research consortia 15 December 2016
Recently, NWO has decided to grant two interdisciplinary research proposals for national and international consortia submitted by researchers from the...
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Delegation of Holland Rijnland visits the Institute of Biology 29 November 2016
On Thursday the 24th of November, Tseard Hoekstra and Jeroen Ververs (members of the delegation Holland Rijnland), Geert de Snoo (Dean Faculty of Scie...
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Better and faster ways of searching for antibiotics 27 October 2016
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a major problem worldwide. Molecular biologist Changsheng Wu explored innovative methods of developing new antibioti...
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Six million boost to search for new antibiotics 30 September 2016
Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, will be investing six million euros over the coming four years to boost research on new antibiotics. The programm...
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Leiden University and LUMC join Netherlands Centre for One Health 19 September 2016
Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center have joined the Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH), further strengthening the academic ne...
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New Directors of Education IBL 05 September 2016
Remko Offringa, Associate Professor in Plant Developmental Genetics, and Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology Arthur Ram both have been appoi...
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Scientists discover how to improve the production of antibiotics and enzymes in soil bacteria 02 June 2016
A team of researchers at the Institute of Biology Leiden, in collaboration with scientists from Utrecht University, has discovered a novel approach to...
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IBL-research interview: Daniel Rozen 26 April 2016
Daniel Rozen (45), at the IBL since September 2012, uses bacteria in laboratory tests on experimental evolution to study the ecology and genetics of a...