Tracing the evolution of the molecular gas content in galaxies is critical for a complete understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, as it provides the direct fuel for star formation. Studies of high-redshift (z>1) molecular gas reservoirs, most commonly traced by carbon monoxide (CO), have seen…

Antibiotic resistance, caused by widespread use of antibiotics, leads to bacterial infections that are difficult, if not impossible, to treat and is a major worldwide health concern.

Promotor: A. Kros

The mycorrhizal symbiosis is among the most widespread species interactions on Earth⁠. This thesis focuses on orchid mycorrhiza, a unique mycorrhizal type that has caught scientists’ attention for centuries⁠.

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

The type-IV secretion system (T4SS) is a machinery able to transfer DNA and proteins between bacteria and in certain cases also to eukaryotic cells.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Co-Promotor: N.S. Pannu

To meet the rising demand for minerals driven by the global shift to clean energy technologies, ensuring responsible and resilient supply chains is critical. Minerals like cobalt, lithium, and nickel for batteries, neodymium and zinc for wind turbines, and indium for solar panels are essential.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Prof.dr. M. van Heel

The focus of this thesis is how stars like our Sun and planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth are formed.

Plants are colonized by an astounding number of microorganisms that can provide different life-support functions, including nutrient acquisition and protection against (a)biotic stresses like drought or pathogen attack.

This thesis investigates the contribution of quantum computers to machine learning, a field called Quantum Machine Learning. Quantum Machine Learning promises innovative perspectives and methods for solving complex problems in machine learning, leveraging the unique capabilities of quantum computers…

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a tomographic 3D imaging technique used for specimens in the millimetre scale.

The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.

Dr. Helen Pluut heeft een artikel gepubliceerd in het gerenommeerde tijdschrift Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP). Dit in samenwerking met Remus Ilies (National University of Singapore), Petru Curşeu (Open Universiteit en Babeş-Bolyai University) en Yukun Liu (University of…

Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Mariana Gkliati het proefschrift 'Systemic Accountability of the European Border and Coast Guard'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. P. Rodrigues en prof.dr. L. Besselink (UvA).

My work focuses on a class of astronomical objects called protoplanetary disks.

The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

LLInC ondersteunt innovatief en hoogwaardig onderwijs, binnen de Universiteit Leiden en in samenwerking met onderwijs- en maatschappelijke organisaties.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: R.S. de Jong

The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Prof.dr. J.C.T. Eijkel (Twente University)

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotor: T.J. de Jong

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Heck, Co-Promotor: B.P. Tighe

Promotor: Prof.dr. E Gittenberger, Co-Promotores: C.H.J.M. Fransen, B.W. Hoeksema

Ethiopian wolves are endangered diurnal Afroalpine rodent hunters. I investigated the interaction between wolves, rodents and human land use in Borena Sayint National Park (BSNP), Abune Yosef and Aboi Gara in Ethiopia.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

Promotors: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. B. Sendhoff (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

The research described in this thesis focused on the use of bioorthogonal antigens to investigate immunological processes in antigen presenting cells. Bioorthogonal antigens are antigenic proteins produced through recombinant expression in a methionine auxotrophic E. coli strain.

This thesis focuses on developing wafer-scale two-dimensional (2D) materials by combining synthesis, transfer, characterization, and device integration of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and BN-doped amorphous carbon.

This dissertation presents the synthesis and evaluation of antibody recognition for various capsular polysaccharide (CP) fragments of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus).

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Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Omdat het archief van de oude Nederlandse West-Indische Compagnie (WIC, 1621-1674) bijna helemaal is verdwenen, is er niet veel bekend over de schepen en bemanningen van deze compagnie. In dit project beginnen we met de reconstructie van basisinformatie door gebruik te maken van nieuwe digitale technieken…

Dit programma, een initiatief van het Instituut voor Geschiedenis in samenwerking met Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta. Richt zich op het bestuderen van meer dan 20 kilometer Nederlands archiefmateriaal in Nederland, Indonesië, India, Sri Lanka en Zuid-Afrika.

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

Hij bepleitte volkssoevereiniteit, was tegen de aristocratie en voor een bewapende revolutionaire garde. Maar hoe radicaal was leider van de patriottenbeweging Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) eigenlijk? En waarom is hij cruciaal voor de ontwikkeling van onze democratie? Zijn biograaf Dirk Alkemade geeft het…

MA History specialisation Governance of Migration and Diversity at Leiden University

Onderzoek naar de bijdrage van tolken, informanten, jagers en gidsen aan de totstandkoming van koloniale wetenschappelijke kennis.

Deze bundel onderzoekt hoe westerse landen historisch onderscheid hebben gemaakt tussen categorieën migranten - zoals arbeidsmigranten, vluchtelingen, gezinsmigranten en postkoloniale migranten. In de bijdragen, die Frankrijk, de Verenigde Staten, Turkije, Canada, Mexico, Nederland, Zweden en Denemarken…

Beelden van de Indonesische oorlog. Veel van dit materiaal is, naast foto's en verzamelingen van oral history, terechtgekomen in de collecties van het KITLV en uiteindelijk de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden. MA-studenten geschiedenis Sander van der Horst, Linde Lammers & Melle van Maanen inventariseerden…

De master Arts and Culture van de Universiteit Leiden biedt je een topniveau kwalificatie op maatwerk op het gebied van kunst en cultuur.