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FameLab: young scientists take the stage 26 February 2019
In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The...
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Untangling the Evolution of a Balanced Lethal System 22 February 2019
Ben Wielstra strives to unravel the evolution of balanced lethal systems. On 1 February he started his own lab at the Institute of Biology Leiden. Wie...
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Amy Montanje receives the 'Kees Bakker Award' 07 January 2019
Leiden Biology student Amy Montanje received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2018 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fonds”.
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Interview with PhD student: Doris van Bergeijk 11 December 2018
Leiden University is partner of the Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH). This initiative brings together leading academic research institutes in ...
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Bacteria under stress can live without cell wall 04 December 2018
Thread-like bacteria make cells that no longer have a cell wall under the influence of osmotic stress. A remarkable discovery, since the cell wall ser...
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Janneke Fruin-Helb Scholarship for student Tim Rietbergen 19 November 2018
Tim Rietbergen, master student Evolutionary Biology at Leiden University, won the award for the best Leiden University Fund (LUF) grant application of...
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Decomposing tears in order to detect Dry Eye Disease 31 August 2018
By measuring proteins in tears, ophthalmologists can more easily diagnose dry eyes (Dry Eye Disease). Peter Raus, a Belgian ophthalmologist and PhD st...
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Students hunting for breakthrough in antibiotics resistance 14 August 2018
Bacteria that fluoresce green, blue or red may play a role in combatting resistance against antibiotics. Under the motto of 'Say yes to stress', thir...
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New Scientific Director for the Institute of Biology Leiden 06 August 2018
Gilles van Wezel has been appointed the new Scientific Director of the Institute of Biology Leiden starting September 1st, 2018. Van Wezel succeeds H...
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The underwater Hobbit – a new shrimp species 08 June 2018
‘In a hole under water there lived a hobbit’: a new species of shrimp named after Bilbo Baggings. Biology student Werner de Gier described this newly ...
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Using fungi to produce renewable energy 05 June 2018
Ebru Alazi ‘hacked’ an enzyme-producing system in the fungus Aspergillus niger in order to produce renewable energy more easily. She manipulated the f...
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Fifty Shades of Stress 15 May 2018
The challenge: Building a tool to detect chemical compounds that individually cause non-lethal stress to bacteria, but that are lethal in combination....
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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...