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Even plants can have neighbour trouble 12 December 2017
Restoring a natural plant environment on exhausted agricultural lands and in nature areas is difficult. We can speed this up by steering the soils to...
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Specialised plants may not be as vulnerable as was thought 12 December 2017
Plants that are pollinated by fewer species of animal may be less vulnerable to change than was thought. This is what Saskia Klumpers discovered in th...
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Pakistan and the Netherlands: combining the best of both worlds 04 May 2017
Majid Khan, born and raised in Pakistan, left his wife and daughter behind to do research in Leiden. After obtaining his PhD, the Netherlands has take...
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Remko Offringa appointed Professor in the field of Plant Developmental Genetics 04 April 2017
Remko Offringa has been appointed Professor in the field of Plant Developmental Genetics within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology Lei...
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New IBL-professor in "Computational Biology": Vera van Noort 06 February 2017
Vera 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 2017
Leiden 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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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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Break-through in the genetic modification of plants 15 November 2016
A collaboration between the IBL and LUMC has resulted in the discovery that the polymerase theta enzyme is essential for the integration of Agrobacter...
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IBL-research interview: Kirsten Leiss 17 October 2016
Kirsten Leiss, at the IBL since 2001, is developing new ways of crop protection in order to decrease the use of pesticides: As a model she uses the th...
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New IBL-professor in “Ecology of plant-microbe-insect interactions”: Martijn Bezemer 20 September 2016
Martijn Bezemer has been appointed as professor in “Ecology of plant-microbe-insect interactions” within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Bi...
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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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Female IBL professors on display in the Academy building 10 March 2016
Only one out of six professors in the Netherlands is female. At the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) female professors are in minority as well. Howev...
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Completion of the Science Campus 03 March 2016
The first phase of the construction of the new building for the Faculty of Science is finished. The Cell Observatory of the Institute of Biology Leide...
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Phyto-pharmaceuticals and gene targeting 01 January 2016
We exploit secondary metabolites of plant to develop pharmaceutical compounds and we genetically modify plant genomes to improve crops.