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Five Leiden professors elected to KNAW
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected five Leiden professors from different disciplines as new members. Two of the new members are women.
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25 Years Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences: Combined fascination
25 Years ago, the Center for Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences was founded at Leiden University; one year later, in 1985, the education program of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences started. On Friday September 18th, this was celebrated with a Symposium, an anniversary booklet, and a grand party.
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First refugee students graduate from Preparatory Year in Leiden
Happy students and proud families, friends and lecturers; on 13 July the first fifteen refugee students graduated from the Preparatory Year for teaching in Leiden. They started a programme in September at a Dutch university of applied sciences or an academic university. 'This is just the start!'
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Even plants can have neighbour trouble
Restoring a natural plant environment on exhausted agricultural lands and in nature areas is difficult. We can speed this up by steering the soils towards the desired situation. This is what Martijn Bezemer, newly appointed Professor of Ecology of Plant-Microbe-Insect interactions at Leiden University’s…
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Two NWO grants for Johan Rooryck
LUCL is pleased to announce that Professor Johan Rooryck has been awarded both an NWO Horizon Grant for his project entitled 'Knowledge and culture', and an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant for his project entitled 'Lend me your ears: the grammar of (un)transferable possession' for a total of €2.75m.
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Ten years ERC: Sylvestre Bonnet kills cancer with light
In 2013, Sylvestre Bonnet received an ERC Starting Grant to kill cancer with molecules that can be activated by light. Two postdocs and three PhD students later, the end approaches of his so far successful project.
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Almost 19 million euros for development and study of organs-on-chips
It sounds futuristic, but it is possible: the creation of miniature organs of patients in order to study them and see how diseases develop and can be treated. This is what researchers from the LUMC, Twente University (UT), UMCG, TU Delft and the Hubrecht Institute hope to achieve in the next ten years…
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicines
Gerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. They will receive an NWO LIFT grant of 280,000 euros, of which 63,000 euros will come from Galapagos. The company will also bring its expertise in biology,…
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‘Studying in Leiden is a life-changing experience’: students on the LExS grant
Last year around 2,000 international students started a master’s degree at Leiden University. To make this possible, there are various grants that these students can apply for. One such grant is the LExS: the Leiden University Excellence Scholarship Programme. Three LExS students tell us about their…
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Ionica Smeets Professor of Science Communication at Leiden University
Dr Ionica Smeets, one of the well-known ‘Maths girls’, has been appointed part-time Professor of Science Communication at Leiden University with effect from 1 July. Over the coming five years she will carry out research on science communication, how the subject is taught and how to raise students’ enthusiasm…
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Drug discovery 3.0: more effective and humane
Discovering effective new drugs is a long, expensive and uncertain process. Laura Heitman wants to improve this by finding out more about how drugs bind to proteins that play a role in disease. She calls it ‘drug discovery 3.0’. Inaugural lecture on 9 December.
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Awards and Grants 2020
An overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2020, as well as special appointments at Leiden University and other institutions.
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Seminar: High yield vesicle packaged recombinant protein production from E. coli
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Reedijk Symposium 2022: Towards Compartmentalized Biohybrid Photocatalysis
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Safe the date: Launch Collaboration DNA Biomonitoring
Lancering
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FRESH Lecture: Photoelectron spectroscopy in the gas-phase and in liquid-jets
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Making a prison for bacteria (and their genes)
Lecture, This Week's Discoveries
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Perspectives on the Philosophy of Time
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Experience Day Vitality and Ageing (MSc)
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Top Lectures: April (2)
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Top Lectures: March (2)
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Top Lectures: May (2)
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Top Lectures: Julia Steinberger
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Top Lectures: Joep Beumer
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Plant Scientist for a day
Small workshop
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Scientific Publishing from the Inside Out
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LED3 Lecture: Chemical Probes for imaging and analysis of hydrolase function in Cancer, Infectious Diseases and the microbiome
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Top Lectures: Rob Schuurink
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Antibiotica Scavenger Hunt
Speurtocht
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Top Lectures: April (1)
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Technological possibilities, didactical responsibilities: two teacher experiences
Course, Webinar
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Remote Sensing in Ecology workshop
Conference, Workshop
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Career College: To PhD or not to PhD?
Career and apply for jobs
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This Week’s Discoveries | 6 March 2018
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Latin America Symposium on Big Data
Conference
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How to tame a fox (and build a dog) – The greatest experiment in animal breeding
Lecture, Studium Generale
- This Week's Discoveries | 5 June 2018
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This Week’s Discoveries | 17 April 2018
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Environmental Humanities LU: Species literacy and the cultural portrayal of animal biodiversity
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Seeing the forest beneath the trees: Mycorrhizal fungi as trait integrators of ecosystem processes
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Top Lectures: Dr Mrinalini
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IBL Symposium 2018
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Politics of Attention for the Environment: Small Steps and Big Leaps.
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The Needham Question: Did Needham Need to Pose It? Is He Guilty of Coloniality?
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Opening TERRA-Dunes Research Platform
Conference, Opening
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This Week’s Discoveries | 26 March 2019
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Top Lectures June: Benjamin van Soldt
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CCLS Seminar Bert van Duijn - IBL
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Reedijk Symposium 2019: Setting molecular chemistry in motion
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Making drugs from stem cells
Lecture, This Week's Discoveries