765 search results for “politics in plant” in the Staff website
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Thijs VosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Faizal RiantoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jan Meijer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Amy VerdunFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Daan van den Wollenberg
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Karolina PomorskaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Switch-It-Up Wednesday: choose plant-based and sustainable in our cafés
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Raafat Shamieh
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leila DemarestFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nicolas Blarel
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Frederic Lens appointed Professor of Biodiversity and Anatomy of Plants
The Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) has a new professor: as of 1 March, Frederic Lens has been appointed Professor of Biodiversity and Anatomy of Plants. For Lens, the appointment feels like a wonderful recognition. ‘I am pleased with Leiden University’s appreciation of my contributions to research…
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Martijn BezemerFaculty of Science
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Morena SkalameraFaculty of Humanities
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Ellen CieraadFaculty of Science
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Unique ‘penis plant’ flowers at Hortus
Amorphophallus decus-silvae, or the ‘penis plant’ as it is known, has just flowered at the Hortus botanicus. It flowered for two days, and then the pollen, which the male flowers produced was collected. As far as the plant experts at the Hortus can tell, this was just the third time that this species…
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Cynthia van Vonno
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Floris Mansvelt BeckFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Indonesian 'coffee plant' named after Leiden researcher
Research on Asian plants is his life's work. Now a crown is added to that: a plant from the coffee family bearing his name. Paul Kessler is LUF professor of botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia and Scientific Director of the Hortus botanicus. 'Completely unexpectedly, you get to see the results…
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Cécile Pick
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wei Ping YoungFaculty of Archaeology
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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Elisabeth DietermanFaculty of Humanities
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Silke HermsFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Josette DaemenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Plants and planets
The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus botanicus on 7 February.
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Petr KopeckyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants
Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…
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Barbara GravendeelFaculty of Science
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Michael Meyer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tim MicklerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Josh RobisonFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kiki SpaninksFaculty of Science
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Jonathan PhillipsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marijn NagtzaamFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maria Spirova
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Hannah KuhnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Matthew LongoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Adapt or perish – traits identified that help plants survive
PhD candidate Jianhong Zhou aimed to better understand whether and how plant species adapt to environmental changes. She developed two databases that she used to analyze how easily or difficultly plants adapt to changing conditions. Zhou defended her PhD thesis on 4 September.
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Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan
International Institute Asian Studies
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Max Joosten
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Peter Castenmiller
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Simon Otjes
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Frank de Zwart
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tom Louwerse
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Dirk AlkemadeFaculty of Humanities
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Wild plants through the lens of a biologist
What started with an old Soviet camera and a darkroom in London grew into a lifelong passion. Developmental biologist Michael Richardson has been capturing nature - from wild coastal plants to microscopic details in the lab - since his childhood.