Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are mechanical waves that travel along the surface of a material and find many applications in modern technologies due to the ease of excitation on piezoelectric substrates via interdigital transducers (IDTs).

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Hooykaas, Co-promotor: R. Offringa

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.

Handbook of Signal Processing Systems is organized in four parts. The first part motivates representative applications that drive and apply state-of-the art methods for design and implementation of signal processing systems; the second part discusses architectures for implementing these applications;…

Promotores: A.H. Meijer, H.P. Spaink

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

Promotor: B. van de Water

Dit artikel onderzoekt hoe motiverende signalen in personeelsadvertenties verband houden met het wervingssucces van werkgevers in de publieke sector.

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is the substrate used for the introduction of the ubiquitous and highly dynamic PTM in which either one or multiple adenosine diphosphate ribose (ADPr) moieties are covalently attached to a nucleophilic side chain of an specific amino acid in the target protein…

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

Promotor: M.A.G.J. Orrit

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.A.G.J. Orrit

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

Geometric phases lead to a nontrivial interference result when an electron's different quantum mechanical paths choices encircle a magnetic coil in an Aharonov-Bohm experiment.

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

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

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate, Co-promotor: H.W. Slabbekoorn

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

The research described in this thesis combines the latest insights in lysosomal function with lysosome centred cell signalling.

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

In this thesis, we describe the latest advances in SQUID-detected Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM).

The type-IV secretion system (T4SS) is a machinery able to transfer DNA and proteins between bacteria and in certain cases also to eukaryotic cells.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

The experiments described in this thesis employ local lentiviral knockdowns in brain areas of female zebra finches followed by behavioural assays consisting of preference and Go/Nogo tasks.

In this thesis, a system pharmacology approach, integrating metabolomics, pharmacology and chemical biology, was applied to understand and modulate the endocannabinoid system across different model systems (cells, zebrafish, mice and humans).

Plants produce an astonishing variety of secondary metabolites (SMs) which are thought to play vital roles in the fitness of plants through ecological interactions.

This thesis focuses on the study of transient and variable radio sources in the universe.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong, Co-Promotor: A.J. Heijboer

Gold nanorods are biocompatible nanoparticles that present an excellent two-photon signal that can be used to get high spatial resolution inside living cells. Gold nanorods are photostable and therefore can be followed inside cells for long time, with possible applications as trackers in live cells.

Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a group of acute diseases caused by highly infectious viruses including Ebola, Lassa, Dengue viruses. Its high mortality rate poses high risk to public health, however, studies on VHF have been hampered due to the non-availability of proper models and incomplete knowledge…

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

We study the interplay of topology and geometry with chirality for several passive and active systems, employing both analytical and numerical methods.

Promotor: Carel J. ten Cate, Co-Promotor: Hans W. Slabbekoorn

Drug-target binding kinetics determine the time course of the central event in pharmacotherapy: Drug-target interaction.

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.J.J. Groenen, Co-Promotor: M. Huber

Promotor: Erik F. Smets, Co-promotores: Barbara Gravendeel, Niels Raes

Promotor: J.M. Memelink

Lezing, This Time for Africa!

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

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).

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are used as a current carrying substrate in investigation of current-induced forces in a low-temperature STM (chapter 2).