934 zoekresultaten voor “discovery of the year” in de Publieke website
-
CfP: ADAM: 'Addressing Difficult Aspects of the Medieval' (Oxford, September 23-24)
A workshop is organized at St John's College, Oxford, on September 23-24. The workshop aims to bring together medievalists of all disciplines to discuss the research and teaching of ‘difficult’ or ‘taboo’ topics. The organizers welcome applications from scholars working in any field that demands sensitivity…
-
LUC The Hague Topopleiding 2016
Leiden University College The Hague is één van de beste university colleges van Nederland. Dat blijkt uit de jaarlijkse ranglijst in de Keuzegids Universiteiten 2016.
-
Gastcollege Coordinator on the Rights of the Child van de Europese Commissie
Op dinsdag 4 maart kwam Marie-Cécile Rouillon, Coordinator on the Rights of the Child bij de Europese Commissie een gastcollege geven aan de studenten van de Advanced LLM in Children's Rights en master Jeugdrecht. In het gastcollege was er een interactieve en levendige discussie met de studenten over…
-
NWO-subsidie Yra van Dijk voor internationaal onderzoek Digital Memory of the Holocaust
Hoogleraar Yra van Dijk heeft een subsidie toegekend gekregen van NWO voor internationaal onderzoek. De subsidie Internationalisering in de geesteswetenschappen is bedoeld om samenwerking tussen Nederlandse en buitenlandse onderzoeksgroepen op het terrein van de geesteswetenschappen te bevorderen.
-
Plan B for particle physics: finding long lived particles at CERN
This thesis discusses the discovery potential of Intensity Frontier experiments.
-
Witnessing the Process of Bacterial Cell Death: Novel Antimicrobials and Their Mechanisms of Action
This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…
-
To affinity and beyond: novel molecular tools to explore solute carrier transport proteins
Despite being the second largest transmembrane protein family after GPCRs, the SLC superfamily has only gained significant attention in early drug development over the past decade.
-
Force sensing and transmission in human induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived pericytes
Pericytes, the mural cells of blood microvessels, are important regulators of vascular morphogenesis and function that have been postulated to mechanically control microvascular diameter through as yet unknown mechanisms.
-
Environmental and metabolomic study of antibiotic production by actinomycetes
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel
-
Identification of novel targets in prostate cancer progression
Promotor: B. van de Water, Co-promotor: E.H.J. Danen
-
Oud-CEO ISDA Robert Pickel sprak over 'The Deadliest Sin of the Financial Crisis'
Op 11 mei 2016 ontving het Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law Robert Pickel voor de elfde Hazelhoff Guest Lecture, getiteld ‘The Deadliest Sin of the Financial Crisis’.
-
Opening POPCorner The Hague
Met een openingswoord, een paneldiscussie op de Spaanse Trappen in Wijnhaven en een druk op de rode knop voor het gebouw zelf, is POPcorner The Hague donderdagmiddag officieel geopend door rector magnificus Hester Bijl.
-
Marcos Neto de CordovaFaculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
-
Studieprogramma
Ontdek het studieprogramma van de éénjarige MSc Nederlandse Politiek aan Universiteit Leiden: kernvak, keuzevakken, onderzoeksvaardigheden, scriptiebegeleiding en stageoptie.
-
Na je studie
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…
-
Leiden in 2019 centrum internationale kennisuitwisseling Azië
Het belangrijkste congres op het gebied van Aziëstudies kiest voor Leiden: van 16 tot en met 19 juli 2019 zal de International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in Leiden worden gehouden. Tijdens deze elfde editie van het internationale congres ontvangt de Universiteit Leiden rond de 1500 academici…
-
Leukemia treatment & cognitive development
-
-
ALGANT
Fundamental research in the ALgebra, Geometry And Number Theory
-
Spinning worlds
Promotor: I. A. G. Snellen, Co-promotor: M. A. Kenworthy
-
Innovation and stasis
The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.
-
Layered loyalties: the Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850)
This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.
-
PhD position: Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries
The University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD researcher in the NWO-funded project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400-c. 1570)". This PhD project identifies the impact the Nassau dynasty had on urban space in the Low Countries and investigates…
-
Ewine van Dishoeck geeft Halley Lecture aan Oxford University
De lezing vindt plaats op woensdag 29 mei 2013 en is getiteld ‘Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars’. De Halley Lecture aan de Universiteit van Oxford is opgericht door de wijlen Henry Wilde, bij de terugkomst van de comeet Halley in 1910. De lezing wordt jaarlijks…
- Tumult 1974-2024 (najaar/autumn 2024)
-
Dies natalis 2017
De Universiteit Leiden vierde op 8 februari 2017 haar 442e stichtingsdag.
-
Online Course Clinical Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation
Kidney transplantation is a major advance of modern medicine. This course will give you state of the art updates about what used to be an experimental, risky, and very limited treatment option more than 50 years ago and is now routinely performed in many countries worldwide.
-
Moritz Jesse spreekt op World Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in New York
Dr. Moritz Jesse, universitair hoofddocent Europees Recht bij het Europa Instituut Leiden, heeft de leden en het publiek van het panel
-
Eén-jaars oefeneffecten voorspellen cognitieve uitkomsten op lange termijn bij de ziekte van Parkinson
Tot wel 50% van de mensen met de ziekte van Parkinson ontwikkelt na verloop van tijd cognitieve achteruitgang; deze studie onderzoekt het gebruik van ‘oefeneffecten’ op neuropsychologische tests als een vroege voorspeller van cognitieve achteruitgang.
-
Population Health Management (MSc)
Discover the master program population Health Management at Leiden University and contribute to a more integrated health care system. Learn more!
-
SCS Courses
The coursework within the Science Communication and Society (SCS) specialisation prepares students for internships and a career in communication about science and health.
-
Centre for Digital Scholarship: research support from A to Z
Workshop
-
Prof. Xander Tielens wordt hoogleraar ‘Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium‘
Prof. A.G.G.M. (Xander) Tielens wordt bij 1 januari bij de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen benoemd tot hoogleraar ‘Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium’. Tielens werkt momenteel als senior onderzoeker bij Ames in Moffett Field, Californië. Ames is een onderdeel van NASA. Daarnaast…
-
Leiden Loves Science
Ben je op zoek naar een alternatieve Valentijnsavond? En gaat je hart sneller kloppen bij het horen over wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen? Kom dan naar Leiden Loves Science.
-
From every angle: novel insights into CC chemokine receptor 2 pharmacology
The CC chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2), a member of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, is widely involved in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. However, no drugs for this receptor have made it to the pharmaceutical market yet.
-
Exploring Grainyhead-like 2 target genes in breast cancer
The objective of this study was to investigate the expression and function of GRHL2 in different breast cancer subtypes.
-
Solving the Gravitational N-body Problem with Machine Learning
In this work, I explore the creation of new methods that optimize simulations of the gravitational N-body problem. Specifically, I take advantage of the recent popularity of Machine Learning methods to find tools that can suit this problem.
-
The Function of Toll-like receptor 2 in Infection and Inflammation
The function of TLRs in innate immunity has aroused worldwide attention soon after its discovery. Because of the broad functions of TLR2 in innate immunity, the drive for the development of TLR2-targeted vaccines or therapeutic treatments has accelerated in the last decades.
-
Mitochondria in chemical-induced toxicity
Chemical-induced organ toxicity is a major concern in the development and use of chemicals, including drugs, pesticides, industrial chemicals and cosmetics. In the last decades, the onset and progression of chemical-induced organ toxicity has been linked amongst others to perturbation of mitochondri…
-
Translational pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics in zebrafish: integration of experimental and computational methods
The zebrafish is a promising vertebrate model organism in early drug discovery and development.
-
Chemical tools to study lipid signaling
Synthesis and application of chemical biology tools to study immunomodulatory signaling lipids.
-
Discovering the preference hypervolume: an interactive model for real world computational co-creativity
In this thesis it is posed that the central object of preference discovery is a co-creative process in which the Other can be represented by a machine. It explores efficient methods to enhance introverted intuition using extraverted intuition's communication lines.
-
Osteosarcoma: searching for new treatment options
Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen
-
Pattern mining for label ranking
Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: C.M. Soares, A.J. Knobbe
-
Developing metabolomics for a systems biology approach to understand Parkinson's disease
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), are increasing in prevalence due to the aging population. Despite extensive study, these diseases are still not fully understood and the lack of personalised treatment options that can target the cause of the diseases, rather than the symptoms,…
-
Cholesterol metabolism and hematopoiesis interaction in atherothrombosis
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.
-
Open-world Continual Learning via Knowledge Transfer
This thesis investigates Open-world Continual Learning (OWCL), a learning paradigm designed for intelligent systems operating in non-stationary environments with persistent exposure to unknown data.
-
Flow and Vasculature in Organ-on-a-Chip systems
Drug development critically depends on preclinical models that mimic human physiology, yet traditional two-dimensional cultures and animal models often lack predictive power.
-
Jo-Hannah Plug -
Time Domain Imaging of Transient and Variable Radio Sources
This thesis focuses on the study of transient and variable radio sources in the universe.
-
Search for cosmic neutrinos with ANTARES
Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong, Co-Promotor: A.J. Heijboer