Promotor: G. J. Kroes

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

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

The progressive loss and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). The onset and progression of PD can be triggered by multiple risk factors, for instance, genetic mutation, environmental exposure, and aging.

The role of material production as a driver of environmental impacts is increasing, which calls for a better understanding of global material flows. This thesis explores the role of in-use stocks of products, buildings and infrastructure as a key driver of global material demand and discusses the implications…

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).

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.

We verwelkomen gastwetenschappers wier onderzoek aansluit bij onze uiteenlopende expertisegebieden. De tekst gaat verder in het Engels.

Rechtsgeleerdheid, Instituut voor Metajuridica, eLaw – Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

Welke kleding kun je het beste kopen als je aan het milieu wilt denken? Die vraag is nog niet zo makkelijk te beantwoorden. Je moet namelijk rekening houden met de hele levenscyclus van een kledingstuk: van productie tot het moment dat we het de deur uit doen. In de rubriek 'What's better?' van radioprogramma…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

De onderwaterwereld rond het huidige Indonesië is de afgelopen eeuwen door menselijk toedoen flink veranderd. Universitair docent Johannes Müller ontvangt een NWO XS-beurs om de geschiedenis van de Indonesische ecosystemen in kaart te brengen.

Hieronder vind je een overzicht van de publicaties van LAPP.

How do nanoparticles bioaccumulate and biodistribute in organisms?

Projecten van de afdeling Environmental Biology

In 2013-2014, CML published over 100 papers, contributed to various international sustainability debates, renovated our building and educated thousands of students from all over the world through our MOOC. These accomplishments and many more are highlighted in this booklet, CML wish you a pleasant…

Online seminar

LA cuidadora: Latin American female migration and elderly home-care work in Europe

Vorige week vond de 12e Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) plaats over het onderwerp How International Law Works in Times of Crisis. Dit congres werd georganiseerd door de Riga Graduate School of Law in samenwerking met het Grondwettelijk Hof van Letland. De bedoeling…

De YAL laat zich horen over beleidskwesties.

Read-Urban was een eerste project om te onderzoeken of beleidsaanbevelingen gedaan kunnen worden met behulp van linked dataverzamelingen en data science en om ervaring op te doen met de succesfactoren voor een dergelijk proces.

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…

Loopbaan en solliciteren

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

The main aim of this thesis was to unravel the signaling and regulatory networks that drive tumor cell migration during breast cancer metastasis.

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

This work is dedicated to interpreting in cohomological terms the special values of zeta functions of arithmetic schemes.

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

The following report discusses a survey on the topic of the Sustainable Development Goals that was distributed among researchers at Leiden University in the month of November 2021.

Promotor: A. Kros

The work in this thesis has been focused on two subjects. The first is the assembly of alginate oligosaccharides and the generation of building blocks for the enzymatic synthesis of alginate, and the second is the total synthesis of large fragments of the zwitterionic SP1 polysaccharide.

Promotor: Roeland M.H. Merks

Our recent excavations have focused on the more recent New Kingdom/Late Period (ca. 1500-332 BCE) material.

In this thesis, the role of plant-mediated soil legacy effects in shaping aboveground plant-insect interactions was investigated.

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

Inactivating mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes predispose to several types of cancer.

This thesis is largely an experimental study on the formation of solid-state simple and complex organic molecules in the H2O-rich and CO-rich ice phases of dense interstellar clouds and dark cores.

Promotor: E. F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: C. Walsh

This dissertation contains four works during my PhD. Different biomaterials have been designed based on coiled-coil peptides. These biomaterials have a range of applications, inclusing drug delivery, cell sorting to cell-cell fusion.

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

The studies presented in the work show the potential of the integrative use of biophysical data in defining the structural basis of protein interactions.

Promotores: T. Hankemeier; R. Berger, Co-promotor: R.J. Vreeken

In this dissertation iron-based homogeneous catalysts were synthesized, characterized and investigated for water oxidation activity.