Op 28 november ontvingen zes studenten in de exacte van de Universiteit Leiden een Jong Talent Aanmoedigingsprijs van 500 euro bij de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW) te Haarlem.

Hoe weet je of je idee is geslaagd? Nou, bijvoorbeeld als de koningin anderhalf jaar later bij je langskomt. Het overkwam de Leidse studentenstichting ‘Door Het Geluid’, die zich inzet om mentaal welzijn onder studenten te bevorderen.

Studenten die meedoen aan 'StudentinzetopSchool' helpen scholieren en doen tegelijkertijd zelf waardevolle onderwijservaring op. In een digitaal werkbezoek op 13 april ging koningin Máxima in gesprek met scholieren, studenten en onderwijsmedewerkers. Ze sprak ook met Leidse deelnemers. ‘Lesgeven is…

Een symposium met een feestelijk tintje: ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig huwelijk van Prinses Margriet en Pieter van Vollenhoven organiseerde de Universiteit Leiden een symposium over ‘Ramp en Recht’ op 20 maart. Een thema dat, zo verzekerde het gouden paar, níets te maken heeft met hun huwelij…

Zes topstudenten ontvangen een Jong Talent Aanmoedigingsprijs van € 500,- van de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. De winnaars zijn: Jasper Bouman (Wiskunde), Dennis van der Zwaan (Informatica), Nashwan Sabti (Natuurkunde), Amber Barendrecht (Life Science and Technology),…

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Bekijk de toelatingseisen voor MSc International Organisation aan Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag. Inclusief benodigde 80 ECTS, Engelse taalnormen (IELTS/TOEFL) en ondersteunende documenten.

ACPA biedt keuzevakken in kunst, muziek en film. Als student van de Universiteit Leiden maar ook als student van de Hogeschool der Kunsten Den Haag(Koninklijk Conservatorium en Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag) kun je via ACPA deze keuzevakken volgen.

In het bijzijn van prinses Beatrix is woensdag 12 februari het congres ‘Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher’ van start gegaan. Boeddhisme-onderzoekers uit de hele wereld komen bijeen in Leiden en reflecteren op het werk van de Leidse sinoloog Erik Zürcher.

Met het Schengenverdrag zijn systematische grenscontroles tussen EU lidstaten grotendeels komen te vervallen. Oplossingen voor de veiligheidsrisico's die daarmee gepaard gaan, worden vaak gezocht in informatietechnologie. Tim Dekkers onderzocht hoe dergelijke technologie in deze context wordt toegepast…

Op 18 september 2019 verdedigde Huw Llewellyn zijn proefschrift 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.M. Blokker en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

The ultimate aim of this project is to improve cooperation between courts in different Member States.

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

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The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

Het thema van het lustrum, ‘De tijd vooruit’, vormde de inspiratiebron voor het ontwerp van het lustrumlogo.

Van de vrouwen die een universitaire opleiding volgen maakte 52% een vorm van grensoverschrijdend gedrag mee. Bij de mannen was dat 19%.

In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

Today, knowledge is the most crucial element to stimulate organizational competitiveness and economic development.

This thesis has described novel synthetic methods to produce a variety of (glyco)peptides and their application in the study of various immunological processes.

Almost all bacteria are enveloped by a cell wall that provides cellular protection.

Cytotoxic T-cells (CTLs) are involved in the clearance of viruses and killing of tumor cells.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

Op 23 juni 2020 verdedigde Santy Kouwagam haar proefschrift 'How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. A.W. Bedner en prof.dr. C.E. von Benda-Beckmann.

The work in this thesis describes the fundamental role of Lkb1 as a conductor of metabolism-related processes in zebrafish larvae.

With an emphasis on developing novel miktoarm star polymers termed PeptoMiktoStars, this thesis leverages asymmetric polymeric polypept(o)ide frameworks to advance their effectiveness in delivering hydrophobic drugs and nucleic acids.

This dissertation is part of a broader research project that revolves around unraveling the evolution of balanced lethal systems.

The aim of this thesis was to study phage infection in Streptomyces, focused on cell wall-deficient cells. Bacteriophages (or phages in short) attach to the cell wall of bacteria after which they replicate and lyse the host cell.

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal

Protoplanetary disks are the gas and dust environments where planetary systems form around young stars. Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) this thesis analyses the gaseous molecular reservoir, using multiple tracers to resolve the 3D structure of protoplanetary…

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra

Carbohydrates are present on the surface of bacteria making them suitable antigen candidates for vaccine development. This thesis deals with the synthesis of two carbohydrate-based components; the capsular polisaccharide of S. aureus type 5 and teichoic acids from staphilococci and enterococci speci…

Bacteria are highly complex and diverse organisms that have adapted to survive in ecological niches ranging from the most extreme to the most heterogeneous environments.

Accurate prediction of the unbound drug concentration-time profile at the CNS target site is crucial for the assessment of the right drug concentration-effect relationship. PBPK models have supported the PK prediction of the CNS target sites and the translation of PK data between species and between…

A structural investigation of coiled coil peptides used as membrane fusogens, mimicing naturally occuring coiled-coil fusion proteins. Synthetic modifications have been made to alter lipid attachment, secondary structure and to insert photoactive azobenzene moieties for active control over coiled coil…

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

Soil biodiversity is of great importance for the maintenance of multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems.

In this thesis we study products of linear error correcting codes.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

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

Carbohydrates, alongside proteins and nucleic acids, constitute a crucial and versatile family of biomolecules present in all life forms. They manifest as monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides, covalently bonded to proteins and fats. Carbohydrates are integral to plant and arthropod…

In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…