Bij onethische medische experimenten denken we al snel aan nazi-Duitsland. Dat ook in gekoloniseerde gebieden tests werden gedaan zonder expliciete toestemming van de proefpersoon, is minder bekend. Universitair docent Fenneke Sysling krijgt een Europese beurs om hier onderzoek naar te doen.

Hoe kunnen mensen en computers leren van data? Om dat te onderzoeken gebruiken wetenschappers vaak zogeheten Bayesiaanse methodes. Hoewel deze methodes veelgebruikt zijn, hebben ze ook beperkingen en zijn ze niet altijd goed te interpreteren. Rianne de Heide beschrijft in haar proefschrift een aantal…

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What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Na het ontvangen van je diploma van LUC, kun je als alumni overal ter wereld heen. Velen die je voor zijn gegaan hebben ervoor gekozen om een master als vervolgopleiding te doen. Sommigen beginnen meteen aan hun professionele carrière of volgen een PhD. Door de vele academische vakgebieden die op LUC…

There are study programmes at LIACS that offer the opportunity to do an internship or research project, as part of the curriculum.

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Radiotelescoop LOFAR brengt het heelal in kaart. Dat levert niet alleen bijzondere beelden op, maar vooral ook immense hoeveelheden data. Huub Röttgering, directeur van de Leidse Sterrewacht, vertelt over de uitdagingen van het werken met die enorme datasets.

Computerwetenschapper Manolis Fragkiadakis werkt voor zijn promotieonderzoek aan een computerprogramma dat video’s van verschillende gebarentalen kan vergelijken. Hiermee kunnen verschillen tussen gebarentalen worden ontdekt, en dat kan vertaalfouten voorkomen. Uiteindelijk moet het programma alle gebarentalen…

We have examined sequences from the ligand-binding domain of the nicotinic acetyl choline receptor (nAChR) in 148 vertebrate species. We are in interested in this receptor because the α-neurotoxins of many venomous snakes binds to this receptor in its location at the neuromuscular junction in all ve…

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

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Hoe kunnen we op een interdisciplinaire wijze de classificatie van migranten en mensen met een beperking bestuderen en onderzoekers van deze velden samenbrengen om raakvlakken met elkaar te vinden?

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

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml

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).

A New Technology-Based Firm (NTBF) is a significant enabler of job creation and a driver of the economy through stimulating innovation.

An Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) is a highly luminous region at the center of a galaxy, powered by the accretion into a supermassive black hole and emitting energy from radio waves to gamma rays, often outshining the host galaxy.

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

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

The explosive radiation and diversification of the advanced snakes (superfamily Colubroidea) was associated with changes in all aspects of the shared venom system. Morphological changes included the partitioning of the mixed ancestral glands into two discrete glands devoted for production of venom ormucous…

The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.

Promotores: Wim Jiskoot; Ferry Ossendorp

While ecosystems have concrete benefits for human society, these benefits are typically overlooked in decision-making.

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

Heart failure is a major health care problem with high mortality.

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-Promotor: L.W. Chatrou

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

This dissertation presents the synthesis and evaluation of antibody recognition for various capsular polysaccharide (CP) fragments of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus).

There are many interpretations of quantum mechanics, and ultimately experiments are needed to verify or falsify these interpretations.

Promotors: W. Jiskoot; G.J. Witkamp, Co-promotor: M.R. Nejadnik

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

Tracing the evolution of the molecular gas content in galaxies is critical for a complete understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, as it provides the direct fuel for star formation. Studies of high-redshift (z>1) molecular gas reservoirs, most commonly traced by carbon monoxide (CO), have seen…

Phosphorylation affects all four major biomolecules – proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids – and plays a pivotal role in the most fundamental cellular functions.

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

Streptomyces are filamentous bacteria that produce more than two-thirds of known antibiotics.

The ability to count is a property not often attributed to materials, despite the abundance of memory in materials. Regardless of how a material stores information, it is often difficult to retrieve exactly ‘what’ a material remembers.

All crested and marbled newts (the genus Triturus) suffer from an unusual genetic abnormality, called a balanced lethal system, that kills exactly half of their offspring. How can a trait so disadvantageous have survived millions of years of natural selection?

Promotor: F. Arbab

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.