447 search results for “plant and media” in the Staff website
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Social media
Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.
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Experts in the media
Leiden University appreciates it if you explain your work to a wider audience every now and then. We encourage media contributions and have people and tools to help you with this.
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Media Guide for Researchers
Leiden University appreciates it if you as a researcher take the time every now and then to explain your work to a wider audience.
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Research in the media
How can you ensure that your research hits the headlines? How can you bring your research output, such as PhD research or a publication, to the attention of the public?
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Chris FlintermanFaculty of Humanities
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Research in the media
How can you ensure that your research hits the headlines? How can you bring your research output, such as PhD research or a publication, to the attention of the public?
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Guidelines for ‘In the media’ pages
If a researcher has appeared on the TV or radio or in a newspaper, for example, you can create an ‘In the media’ page referring to this. How do you write a good ‘In the media’ page? Below are some guidelines.
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Robert ChesalFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Media in education: practical advice and useful resources
Didactics
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Addie de MoorFaculty 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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Ellen CieraadFaculty of Science
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Lenny van Rosmalen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Experts in the media
Leiden University appreciates it if you explain your work to a wider audience every now and then. We encourage media contributions and have people and tools to help you with this.
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Pepita HesselberthFaculty of Humanities
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Janine PrinsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tressia ChikodzaFaculty of Science
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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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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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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Barbara GravendeelFaculty of Science
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an introduction to sharing your research via social and traditional media
Communication, Outreach, Transferable skills
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Kiki SpaninksFaculty of Science
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn BezemerFaculty of Science
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Revolutionizing plant protection strategies: Ding lab receives 2.4M grant to investigate plant immunity
Plant biologist Pingtao Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), has received a 2.4 million European grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers allows him to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which plants resist…
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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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Sticky insects: plants protected with biological glue
Drained leaves and plants stripped bare. Insects can completely destroy crops. Soon, these situations may be behind us, with the new pesticide developed by Leiden and Wageningen researchers. With their plant-based ‘insect glue’, insects are incapacitated.
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke ElfferichFaculty of Science
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Sofia GomesFaculty of Science
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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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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.
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Daisy SmeetsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Plant stress increases: New research with bacteria offers hope
Soil that is too wet, or too dry. Or with a lot or few nutrients. Due to climate change, the differences are becoming bigger, and plants must increasingly be able to adapt to survive. How do you make plants more stress-resistant? For this purpose, researchers from Leiden, along with other universities,…
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Peiyan QinFaculty of Science
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Kevin BretscherFaculty of Science
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Peng SunFaculty of Science
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Frederic LensFaculty of Science
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Xinya PanFaculty of Science
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Han van Konijnenburg
Faculty of Science
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Siamak AnvaritutunchiFaculty of Humanities
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Farzad AslaniFaculty of Science
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Tommy van AvermaeteLeiden University Libraries
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Victor PosthumaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities