Tijdens de World Press Freedom Conference van 9 en 10 december deelde een dertigtal academici de resultaten van hun onderzoek naar persvrijheid. Het Leidsch Dagblad blikte terug op het evenement.

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.

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.

In this research I assess the impact of the recently discovered gas reserves south off Cyprus on the escalation of the Cyprus conflict.

What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

Promotor: J. A. Bouwstra

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Every organisms in the tree of life faces the same challenge: the length of its DNA exceeds the volume of the cell it needs to fit in. Several strategies have evolved to solve this problem, one of them being the expression of proteins that bind and organize the DNA.

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. M. van der Zee

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma

Promotor: Jelle S. Kaastra Co-promotor: Jelle de Plaa

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

In November publiceerde Springer een boek getiteld The Future of Drone Use, onder redactie van mr. dr. ir. Bart Custers, hoofd onderzoek bij eLaw, het Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie van de Universiteit Leiden.

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

This thesis investigates a pharmacological challenge model induced by Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) activation, focusing on skin inflammation and its implications for early drug development.

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

Ruim 1200 leerlingen uit groep 7 van basisscholen in Leiden en Den Haag kregen op de verjaardag van de universiteit les van een echte professor.

Verbeteren van sociale inclusie door het ontwikkelen van methoden en analytische tools om dergelijke fenomenen te begrijpen en te analyseren op basis van sensordata.

Hoogleraar Rechtssociologie Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Instituut) zal op 4 maart a.s. een lezing geven bij het ‘Institute of European Studies’ van de 'University of California' in Berkeley.

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

Nowadays, it is well known that hydrogen and helium (and small traces of lithium and beryllium) were created shortly after the Big Bang, while the heavier elements are created in the cores of stars at different evolutionary stages. When these stars explode as supernovae, they expel metals synthesised…

Promotores: Prof.dr. S.J. Edixhoven, Prof.dr. E. Ullmo (University Paris-Sud)

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

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The Sun and all the stars in the night sky reside in the Milky Way galaxy. In the at-rest reference frame of the Galaxy, typical stars travel with velocities of about 100-200 kilometres per second.

The expanding population and economic activity are driving up global energy consumption. Simultaneously, there is an urgent need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources to mitigate the climate crisis, primarily caused by fossil fuel combustion.

Forming at the nodes of the Cosmic Web and growing hierarchically via mass accretion, galaxy clusters are the largest virialized halos in our universe, composed of dark matter (DM; ≥85%), ionized hot plasma in the intracluster medium (ICM; ≥10-15%), and galaxies (≥1-5%).

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

In this course, you will explore the organs involved in our food digestion and discover the common causes of abdominal and pelvic pain. The latest graphics and animations will give you new insights and understandings of this part of the body.

One of the key discoveries in exoplanet research over the past decade is the abundance of small planets in our Milky Way. Despite their high numbers, our understanding of their atmospheres remains limited, and it is unknown if they possess atmospheres at all.

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

There is no heritage without emotional sharing and clashing. This article explores the involvement of divergent emotions in heritage making by discussing the debate series of Imagine IC and the Reinwardt Academy and zooming in on the commemoration of slavery and imagery of ‘Black Pete’ in the Netherlands.…

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

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

Humanity stands at a pivotal juncture, facing the dual challenge of environmental sustainability and rapid population growth, projected to exceed 11 billion by century’s end.

Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold

In this thesis we study the landscape of gravitational models which modify GR by introducing an additional scalar degree of freedom (d.o.f.) to source Cosmic Acceleration.

Promotores: C.A.J. Knibbe; J.N. van den Anker, Co-promotores: H.P.A. van Dongen; B. van Ramshorst

Carbon dioxide capture and utilization technologies are necessary to create a truly circular economy. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formate is an appealing carbon utilization method as it can be performed at room temperature and pressure, it only requires two electrons, and it has…

LUGO breidt de Green Teams uit over de hele universiteit, te beginnen met de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, en nu met teams voor de Archeologie Faculteit en de campus in Den Haag.

Op 1 februari 2018 verdedigde Nathalie-Sharon Koster haar proefschrift getiteld ‘Crime victims and the police’. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. J.P. van der Leun en dr. mr. M.J.J. Kunst.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Prof.dr. J.C.T. Eijkel (Twente University)

In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.

Promotor: Prof.dr. V. Icke, Co-Promotor: T.I. Madura

Op 5 juni 2018 verdedigde Emile Beenakker zijn proefschrift getiteld ‘The implementation of international law in the national legal order: A legislative perspective’. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor professor W.J.M. Voermans.