To what extent does the Law Ombudsperson for Children achieve its goals as intended by the legislator when introducing the law?

On a structural level, the properties featured by a majority of mechanical metamaterials can be ascribed to the finite number of soft internal degrees-of freedom allowing for low-energy deformations.

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Promotores: Prof.dr. F.P. Israel, Prof.dr. P.P. van der Werf

Promotor: F.P. Israel, Co-Promoter: R. Meijerink

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials which derive their unusual properties from their structure rather than their composition.

In what ways can a photographic practice act as a means to confront, or even undo, the various material properties of atmospheric enclosure that so clearly put our relationship with our environment under pressure? Is it possible to devise a set of critical and artistic strategies to comprehend the ways…

What is the Fine Mechanical Department?

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.

Exploring the mechanism of targeted nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery using the zebrafish model

Mechanical interactions between cells and their environment play an important role in many biological processes.

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) remain one of the major reasons for patient mortality and (early) drug withdrawal. Currently, different in vivo and in vitro models are used to assess the toxic potential of drugs in the pre-clinical phase. Unfortunately, the predictive value of this model does not fit…

How do you fit two meters of DNA in a tiny compartment and at the same time are able to access the right parts of it at the right times?

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

Mechanisms fro drug resistance

We aim to unravel the molecular mechanisms involved in the transformation of eukaryotic cells by Agrobacterium.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

Beenakker

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

How presence, abundance and enzymatic activities of AM and EM fungi differently affect soil carbon sequestration processes?

PhD Defence

To argue that people can control the relative contributions of goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes to decision-making and action selection.

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

Bouwmeester

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. den Hertog

Promotor: B. van de Water

Promotor: P. J. J. Hooykaas, Co-promotor: R. Offringa

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

On October 31st, Margarita Gulian succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Margarita on this great result.

Source: Mediators Inflamm (2014)

Like a mixture of oil and water, lipid membranes separate into two liquid phases.

A central and much debated topic in the study of language acquisition concerns the nature of the learning mechanisms that are required. Are the computational and learning mechanisms that guide learning about language structure special and specific to language or humans?

PhD Defence

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

In this project we study the properties of statistical- and rule-learning mechanisms in relation to the acquisition and evolution of language. We ask to what extent these mechanisms are unique to humans - or to human language - by comparing the acquisition of vocal structure in two species: humans (infants)…

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

The mechanism of the electrochemical reduction of dioxygen by a mononuclear pyridylalkylamine copper complex was investigated (see picture). It was shown that in neutral aqueous solution dioxygen undergoes stepwise reduction, wherein hydrogen peroxide plays a key role. The rate constants determined…

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

Microneedles represent promising tools for delivery of drugs to the skin. However, before these microneedles can be used in clinical practice, it is essential to understand the process of skin penetration by these microneedles.

Cars are equipped with catalysts to disarm toxic exhaust gases. Platinum plays an important role there. Leiden physicists and chemists have now for the first time seen the mechanism behind a platinum catalyst. With a fundamental understanding of the process, scientists can use this rare material more…

Special amplifying agents can make MRI scanners and NMR techniques hundreds of times more sensitive. Leiden physicists have now found a method to test their efficiency. More sensitive MRI scans could for example improve our understanding of cystic fibrosis or Parkinson’s disease. Publication in PCCP…

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée

Leiden University organizes a course on quantum mechanics for high school Physics teachers. As the curriculum gains a new quantum component, the university enables teachers to give the best possible guidance to their students.