Het interdisciplinaire studieprogramma Social Resilience and Securiy biedt in het studiejaar 2022-2023 een nieuwe minor voor startende derdejaars bachelor studenten die geïnteresseerd zijn in interpersoonlijk geweld. De nieuwe minor valt goed in de smaak bij studenten: de inschrijvingen zaten binnen…

Vanuit twaalf studio’s in Leiden en Den Haag zijn tijdens de Online Master Open Dagen presentaties gegeven, waar geïnteresseerde studenten alles te weten kwamen over hun toekomstige studie.

How does one become a guest author for Nobel Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation? One of our alumni, Mariasole Forlani, can tell you all about it.

In Mesopotamië (3000 v. Chr. tot 70 n. Chr) zijn de oudste vormen van literatuur en recht gevonden en belangrijke ontdekkingen in de wetenschap en techniek gedaan. Al deze ontwikkelingen zijn op kleitabletten in spijkerschrift vastgelegd. Daarom kan bestudering van spijkerschrift ons ook nu nog veel…

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.

Wat als ernstig zieke patiënten hun diagnose niet willen horen? Moet een arts een patiënt altijd alle beschikbare informatie geven? Communicatieonderzoeker Liesbeth van Vliet, medisch antropoloog Annemarie Samuels en onderzoeksstagiaire Fiona Brosig stelle deze vragen over open informatievoorziening…

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…

A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments

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.

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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?

Lees hoe je je aanmeldt voor de MSc International Organisation aan Universiteit Leiden – inclusief stappen via Studielink, documenten indienen en vervolgstappen.

Volg de stapsgewijze aanmeldprocedure voor de MSc Nederlandse Politiek aan Universiteit Leiden: begin in Studielink, vervolg via uSis, dien je toelatingsverzoek in en registreer je na toelating.

Kiemproject: Hoe kunnen metaforen bijdragen aan betere maatschappelijke betrokkenheid bij quantumwetenschap en -technologie, en welke factoren beïnvloeden de acceptatie of weerstand tegen metaforen bij zowel experts als leken?

Voor het eerst in het 445-jarig bestaan van de Universiteit Leiden vonden de Open Dagen online plaats. Op vrijdag 30 en zaterdag 31 oktober bezochten scholieren ‘onze faculteit’ op het online platform van de universiteit. Via opleidingspresentaties, een informatiemarkt, videobellen en 1-op-1 chats met…

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

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.

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.

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

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).

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

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.

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