Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotores: N.R. Mustafa, A.E. Schulte

Veel docenten in het voortgezet onderwijs houden rekening met verschillen tussen leerlingen. Uit het promotieonderzoek van Saskia Stollman (ICLON) blijkt dat zij hierbij ruimte om te experimenteren en ondersteuning van de school(leiding) nodig hebben.

Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is responsible for light absorption and excitation energy transfer in plants and photosynthetic algae, while in high light it undergoes conformational changes by which it quenches excitations to prevent photodamage.

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…

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

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.

The emergence of complex diseases resulting from abnormal cell-cell signaling and the spread of infectious diseases caused by pathogens are significant threats to humanity. Unraveling the dynamic mechanisms underlying cell-cell signaling and infectious disease spreading is crucial for effective disease…

Promotor: A.H. Meijer, Co-promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

Op 31 januari 2024 verdedigde Alex Schilin zijn proefschrift 'United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Economic and Monetary Union during the Sovereign Debt Crisis'. Wat motiveerde hem om dit onderwerp te onderzoeken en hoe heeft hij dit project aangepakt?…

The main aim of this thesis was to unravel the signaling and regulatory networks that drive tumor cell migration during breast cancer metastasis.

Houd meer rekening met de verschillen tussen gemeenten. Daarvoor pleit Geerten Boogaard, bijzonder hoogleraar Decentrale overheden. De Gemeentewet zou, bijvoorbeeld ten aanzien van een gekozen burgemeester, een keuzemenu kunnen aanbieden. Boogaard houdt zijn oratie op 6 maart.

This dissertation contains four works during my PhD. Different biomaterials have been designed based on coiled-coil peptides. These biomaterials have a range of applications, inclusing drug delivery, cell sorting to cell-cell fusion.

Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a group of acute diseases caused by highly infectious viruses including Ebola, Lassa, Dengue viruses. Its high mortality rate poses high risk to public health, however, studies on VHF have been hampered due to the non-availability of proper models and incomplete knowledge…

Carbohydrates are present on the surface of bacteria making them suitable antigen candidates for vaccine development. This thesis deals with the synthesis of two carbohydrate-based components; the capsular polisaccharide of S. aureus type 5 and teichoic acids from staphilococci and enterococci speci…

In this thesis, the focus lies on studying glucocorticoid receptor dynamics in living cells with the aim of understanding how this transcription factor finds its DNA target sites to regulate transcription.

The overall theme of this thesis is to complement the electrochemical data acquired in fuel cell research with in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS).

Details kunnen zien van een zieke of gezonde cel, dat is mogelijk met de supermicroscoop van het consortium Cyttron. Niet alleen de microscoop is vernieuwend in zijn soort: ook de vorm waarop de partijen samenwerken past in de huidige tijd. “Toegang tot elkaars techniek, daar draait het om in ons samenwerkingsverband”,…

Met de nodige maatregelen starten onderzoekers hun werkzaamheden in verschillende laboratoria weer deels op. Het Leidse Cell Observatory is één van de plekken waar wetenschappers sinds 11 mei hun labwerk hervatten.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Healthy aging is one of the prime goals in today's society and atherosclerosis is among the greatest causes of morbidity in elderly. Cardiovascular disease patients receiving treatment are often of advanced aged and have an aged immune system, which limits translating experimental findings to the pa…

In this thesis, the role of mast cells in atherosclerosis and novel therapeutic strategies to inhibit atherosclerosis progression are discussed. The first part of the thesis specifically focuses on the relation between mast cells and advanced human atherosclerotic plaque characteristics.

Atherosclerosis is the most prominent underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease and an important cause of major adverse cardiovascular events.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

Amaya Verschuur en Maarten Stam, eerstejaarsstudenten van de opleiding Molecular Science & Technology (MST), ontvingen op 30 september officieel hun Topsector Chemiebeurs. De uitreiking vond plaats in de Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, tijdens de World of Technology & Science beurs.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

Promotor: B. vd Water, T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Scattering of light in the presence of nano-structured materials, i.e. with features in the order of the wavelength of the light or smaller, reveals details of how light interacts with matter at the nanoscale.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Decentralized plug and play systems for energy production are the future picture of our society. Artificial photosynthetic systems are used for this purpose.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks

This thesis describes our search to identify and understand possible regulatory mechanisms of integrin α6β4 in cell-matrix adhesion and intracelular signaling.

In this thesis, the researcher developed a nanosystem based on the metallophilic Interaction between cyclometalated complexes.

Streptomyces present a valuable platform for natural product discovery. Lugdunomycin is a novel angucycline-derived polyketide from Streptomyces sp QL37, with unprecedented skeleton and antimicrobial activity.

Bacterial biocatalysis constitutes a sustainable alternative for high-value chemicals production by enabling the utilization of renewable feedstocks.

This dissertation combines the use of defined microenvironments, high-resolution fluorescence microscopy, and time-resolved analysis, to study intracellular and cellular motility.

The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most pressing challenges that humanity faces in the coming decades.

In summary, the collective results described in this thesis show that nanoparticulate vaccines can be delivered intradermally by coated and hollow microneedles and evoke antigen-specific immune responses.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

Onderwijsvernieuwingen komen en gaan, maar er is één onderwijsideaal dat altijd zal blijven bestaan: studenten uitdagen op hun eigen niveau om diepgaand na te denken over en met de leerstof.

Naar zelfregulerend leren bij spreek- en gespreksvaardigheid in moderne vreemde talen in het voortgezet onderwijs: een adaptieve en praktische aanpak.

Juist bij het vak Engels in het tweetalig onderwijs is er sprake van grote onderlinge niveauverschillen tussen leerlingen. Deze leerlingen moeten snel op een hoog niveau worden gebracht om de vakken te kunnen volgen die in het Engels gegeven worden. Ook zijn de eisen die worden gesteld aan het vak Engels…

In eight chapters, the thesis of Rafaël Vos covers the effect of temperature and pressure on the electrochemical CO2 reduction.

Wat is het effect van digitale leeskilometers op de leesvaardigheid van beginnende lezers in groep 3?