Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Promotores: S.F. Portegies Zwart, E. M. Rossi

A century ago, it was unclear whether the stars in the sky were clustered in groups, or widely spread in the universe.

Unfolding potential

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. F. van Dishoeck

Veel kinderen leren niet op een niveau dat aansluit bij hun potentieel om te leren. Diagnostiek in de leerlingbeleiding zou daarom inzicht moeten geven in hoe een kind begeleid kan worden in het verder ontwikkelen van zijn of haar sterke kanten terwijl het tegelijkertijd handvatten biedt voor het ondersteunen…

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.H. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H.Hoekstra

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander

Promotor: J.W. van Holten

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

An assessment approach that tailors to children’s instructional needs

Hoe beinvloed de structuur van één enkel gen de activiteit van genen die gevoelig zijn voor hormonen?

Het artikel 'Flexible updating of dynamic knowledge structures' met bijdrage van Franziska Richter van Cognitieve Psychologie is uitgebracht door Nature.

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.

Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.

Hybrid zones occur where two species meet and produce offspring (hybrids). Typically, hybrids show a considerable reduction in fitness. In this thesis two hybrid zones are treated.

Developing methodes to understand the evolution of patches in natural ecosystems

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M. Bongards (Cologne University)

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: S.J.T. van Noort

In this thesis, we study travelling waves in stochastic reaction-diffusion equations. We extend techniques from the deterministic theory for travelling waves to apply to the stochastic version, which allows us to compute the stochastic wave speed and shape, and draw conclusions on the stability of the…

Het onderzoek in dit proefschrift kijkt naar de rol van het locus ceuruleus - noradrenalinesysteem in verscheidene aspecten van menselijke cognitie, en de modulatie van de staat van het brein.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

In previous studies at our laboratory it was demonstrated that drug exposure of HepG2 cells can lead to an altered TNFα-induced NF-κB oscillatory phenotype, concurrent with a synergistically increased sensitivity for TNFα-induced apoptosis.

The solar system was formed approximately 4.56 billion years ago. Despite the numerous theories that have been developed over the years, the formation and evolution of the solar system still remain unclear.

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

Remus Dame

In this thesis, the focus lies on studying glucocorticoid receptor dynamics in living cells with the aim of understanding how this transcription factor finds its DNA target sites to regulate transcription.

Unconstrained day-to-day activities are difficult to quantify and how the corresponding movements shape the brain remain unclear. Read more

De negende Network Europe Conference in Edinburgh werd in juni 2017 gehouden en was georganiseerd door het Europa Instituut in Zurich.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

Promotor: E. F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: C. Walsh

Promotie

This thesis consists of two main parts. The first part (Chapters 2 and 3) deals with a class of Markov process called Quasi-Skipfree (QSF) processes.

Astronomen willen het heelal begrijpen, van de Oerknal tot nu, en hoe dit verder zal gaan. In Leiden concentreren ze zich daarbij op twee vragen: 'Hoe ontstaan sterren en planeten? en 'Hoe ontstonden in het jonge heelal sterrenstelsels en zwarte gaten?' Een nieuwe generatie telescopen – net klaar of…

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

Vinasse is a major by-product generated by the sugarcane biofuel industry. It is a source of microbes, nutrients and organic matter and often it is recycled as fertilizer.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. F.F.S. van der Tak (RUG)