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Exhibition Aquatic and riparian plants from Flora Batava Event - 3 April 2023
Exhibition

Remko Offringa Professor of Plant developmental genetics
Faculty of Science

Zoe Zeng Plant biotechnician
Faculty of Science

Johan Memelink Professor emeritus of Plant cell physiology
Faculty of Science

Working in a living museum News - 23 August 2023
Roderick Bouman is collection manager of the Leiden Hortus botanicus. He keeps track of which plants there are in the garden, where they come from and makes sure visitors can find the right information about them. ‘We are like a regular museum,’ says Bouman. ‘Except that our objects are alive. That…

Wood formation further explored by NWO-XL grant News - 7 September 2022
Leiden researchers, Professor Remko Offringa and co-applicants Salma Balazadeh and Frederic Lens received an NWO-XL grant (2.5 million euros). Together with researchers in Wageningen and Groningen, they will study the genetic and environmental drivers of woodiness. From plant to molecule, the groups…

What Darwin couldn’t see: Expedition to uncover invisible life in Galápagos News - 22 March 2023
An international research team is to search for invisible life in the Galápagos Islands. The diversity of bacteria and other microscopic organisms may not be evident to the naked eye, but it is essential to nature. To the islands' giant daisies, for instance: unique endemic plants that are currently…

Four hundred and fifty trees for Leiden University’s 450th anniversary News - 24 March 2025
Leiden and The Hague have an extra 450 trees thanks to a special campaign to mark the 450th anniversary of the Relief of Leiden and Leiden University’s foundation. Over the past few months, Stadslab Leiden has worked on an initiative to plant young trees with the residents of the two cities.

Green islands around the University buildings to entice threatened insects News - 21 September 2021
The number of insect species is plummeting, which is why the University is creating a more biodiverse environment around its buildings. Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, planted the first bee-friendly plants in the front garden of Oude UB on 20 September.

A computational tool that will transform bacterial genome analysis News - 26 April 2024
Whether a microbe is beneficial or harmful to a plant can now be predicted with high accuracy thanks to bacLIFE. This bioinformatic tool with an intuitive interface makes it much easier to unlock the secrets of bacterial genomes. A group of Leiden biologists presented it in Nature Communications.

How oak seedlings teach us more on dune restoration News - 8 February 2024
What is the best way to restore dune ecosystems? The project TERRA-Dunes researches the role of soil microbes in the development of natural dune areas. Recently, the project went into a new phase: planting 412 oak seedlings grown in different type of soils.

Barbara Gravendeel appointed new scientific director of Hortus Botanicus Leiden News - 12 March 2025
Barbara Gravendeel has been appointed as the new scientific director of Hortus botanicus Leiden. Additionally, she has been named Professor of Plants and Society. Gravendeel succeeds Paul Keßler, who held the position for nineteen years. Currently, she works as a group leader at Naturalis Biodiversity…