Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 vindt de lustrumeditie van de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van het Landelijk Staatssteunnetwerk plaats. Het thema is ‘Staatssteun en Innovatie’. Paul Adriaanse is als lid van de stuurgroep van het Landelijk Staatssteunnetwerk medeorganisator van deze bijeenkomst.

Emeritus hoogleraar Gumbert, internationaal deskundige op het gebied van Westerse handschriftenkunde van de middeleeuwen, is op vrijdag 21 oktober benoemd tot Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau.

Onlangs zijn er enkele wijzigingen doorgevoerd in de catalogus van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, waardoor de meer dan 1000 gedigitaliseerde codices beter toegankelijk zijn. Ook de 'Inventory of Western Medieval Manuscripts Held by Leiden University Libraries', vervaardigd door conservator handschriften…

De korte documentaire Yaavi van Itandehui Jansen is geselecteerd voor de Short Film Corner van het Cannes Filmfestival. Jansen volgt momenteel een PhD aan de Academy of Creative and Performing Arts aan de Universiteit Leiden.

The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announces the summer session focused on the study of Medieval Greek, from June 26 to July 27, 2023. The Library invites applications for a month-long Summer Session for Medieval Greek at the Intermediate to Advanced Level. The…

Leidinggeven op afstand vraagt om een aangepaste leiderschapsstijl.

In haar proefschrift ‘How politics becomes news and news becomes politics’ geeft Luzia Helfer meer inzicht in beweegredenen van journalisten en politici om politiek nieuws ‘op te pakken’. Promotie op vrijdag 9 december.

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

Promotor: A. Kros

Mechanical forces are known to play an important role in bacterial colonies. In this dissertation, we study the self-organization at various stages of growing bacterial colonies, and focus on the mechanical effects of cell growth.

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

Het onderzoek in de cluster Algebra, meetkunde en getaltheorie slaat bruggen tussen abstracte theorie en de wereld van algoritmen en toepassingen.

Cardiovascular disease is a major global burden and atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathological process.

Bacteria have the ability to alter their morphology in order to adapt to changing environments.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

There is accumulating evidence for an increase in severe global drought events. In particular, Europe experienced several severe droughts in 2003, 2015, and 2018 (unprecedented in the past 2,110 years). Such droughts have caused serious and far-reaching impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotoren: M.F.E. de Jeu, S.D. Silvestrov

Within the field of astronomy, understanding how galaxies grow and evolve from the Big Bang to the present day is a challenging and complex question.

Promotor: T.H. Oosterkamp

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

In this thesis, we aimed to better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in TNBC progression and metastasis formation and discover new targets to reduce breast cancer related deaths.

We developed the bitterling as a unique, well-studied model organism in the area of the evolutionary ecology of brood parasitism. The bitterling-mussel relationship, interspecific mussel host preference, and mussel gill structure are studied in detail, to help understand the developmental adaptation…

Death in all types of melanomas is generally caused by metastasis. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular melanoma, there are currently no (patient-derived) animal models that faithfully recapitulate metastatic dissemination of UM.

This research delves into a region of space known as the interstellar medium (ISM), which is essentially the area between the stars filled with gas and dust.

Striga hermonthica, commonly known as witchweed, infests major cereal crops in Sub-Saharan Africa causing severe yield losses and threatening the livelihood of millions of resource poor farmers.

This work describes the use of click-to-release chemistry to get spatiotemporal control over immunocytokine activity. Until now, immunocytokines (cytokines coupled to a tumor-targeting-moiety) remained active throughout the body, being able to bind their respective receptors, causing mild to severe…

The research described in this thesis centered on retaining exo-β-glucosidases implicated in health and disease, in particular the human inherited lysosomal storage disorder, Gaucher disease (GD).

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

Barrier function is the natural role of the skin. The lipid matrix present in the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum is important for this function.

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

In the first part, we introduce a new condition, called toric-additivity, on a family of abelian varieties degenerating to a semi-abelian scheme over a normal crossing divisor.