Wij voeren multidisciplinair onderzoek uit op het niveau van moleculen, cellen en organismen binnen de dierkunde. Ons doel is om fundamentele kennis te vergroten over gezondheid en ziekte.

Houden en fokken van proefdieren voor onderzoeks- en onderwijsdoeleinden.

Op 10 oktober 2019 verdedigde Janneke Vink haar proefschrift 'The Open Society and Its Animals'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P.B. Cliteur.

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Brendan Carroll verdedigde op donderdag 30 oktober zijn proefschrift:

Animal diet studies are critical for understanding ecological processes such as trophic interactions, energy flow, and nutrient cycling. By examining what animals consume, ecologists gain insights into species specialization, predator-prey relationships, and ecosystem management.

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

The mission of our group is understanding how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. We believe better science communication can improve our society and engage many different groups with science, also improving science.

Op 16 december 2019 verdedigde Jan-Harm de Villiers zijn proefschrift 'The Anthropomorphic Hegemony of Subjectivity: Critical Reflections on Law and the Question of the Animal'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P. Cliteur.

In dit artikel onderzoeken Bart Schuurman & Sarah Louise Carthy de verschillen tussen geradicaliseerde individuen en de algemene bevolking.

There is a need for alternative methods to replace, reduce and refine (3R) animal experimentation. Combining experimental data from high-throughput in vitro studies with in silico modeling is a promising approach to unravel the effect of chemicals on living cells and to gain a better understanding of…

This thesis develops a method for direction dependent calibration of the ionosphere in radio interferometric data.

Schneider

Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

Obesity may alter how a person absorbs, distributes, metabolizes or excretes medication. This thesis describes how obesity affects drug levels in the blood for antimicrobial agents, such as ciprofloxacin and fluconazole.

The database research community has made tremendous strides in developing powerful database engines that allow for efficient analytical query processing.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

In dit proefschrift wordt gekeken naar de produktie en consumptie van het reality-tv-programma ‘Nieuwe Wijze Oom’. Deze show, uitgezonden op het entertainmentkanaal van de provincie Shanghai, draait om mediation in conflicten tussen burgers. ‘Nieuwe Wijze Oom’ is geliefd bij het publiek én bij de autoriteiten.…

The ultimate goal of cosmologists is to find a cosmological model able to explain the current observational data.

In populations with a seed-bank, individuals can temporarily become dormant and refrain from reproduction until they can become active again. The repository of all dormant individuals in the population is called the seed-bank. Seed-banks are observed in many taxa, including plants, bacteria and other…

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

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Improvements of weak gravitational lensing shape measurements are presented and some used for data analysis.

Bussmann

In vitro disease models play a fundamental role in drug research. They enable the systemic identification and validation of disease mechanisms and the discovery of possible drug targets. However, more than often, drug candidates that are identified in vitro fail in the later clinical stages of drug…

Webinar, Q&A, discussion

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong, Co-Promotor: A.J. Heijboer

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Een virtuele hand die voelt alsof het je eigen hand is. Je vrolijker voelen omdat een virtueel gezicht samen met jou glimlacht. Psycholoog Ke Ma ontdekte met virtual reality dat ons lichaamsgevoel flexibeler is dan gedacht. Ke Ma: ‘We kunnen fantastische applicaties bedenken.’

We explored the Universe using weak gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that occurs when light from distant galaxies is bent by the gravitational fields of closer cosmic objects, much like how a lens distorts light.

Promotors: C.A.J. Knibbe, Anthonius de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M.J. van der Vorst

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

Radio jets are important to the evoultion of galaxies. However, it is still not fully understood how a radio jet can be triggered.

With the rise of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens, the possibility of a post-antibiotic world is quickly becoming reality.

Op donderdag 16 november 2017 heeft Lalin Kovudhikulrungsri haar proefschrift ‘The Right to Travel by Air of Persons with Disabilities’ verdedigd. Haar promotoren zijn Prof.dr. P.M.J. Mendes De Leon en Prof.mr.dr. A.C. Hendriks.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, A. Iovita

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

This thesis focuses on the application of lipid-based nanomedicine in drug delivery, including small molecular antitumor drugs and biomacromolecules including mRNA, and evaluates their biological performance.

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

CrO2, a half-metal ferromagnet, has shown great promise for superconducting spintronics applications for nearly two decades.

This thesis deals with the use of sound in interactions in the context of participatory systems and data sonification. We investigate an interactive environment where participants perceive information of the data through sound elements.

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

Molecular materials have been a subject of interest in fundamental research and applications for decades, and have been studied as bulk crystals, (thin) films and as individual molecules, due to the large variety in their properties. This dissertation explores pentacene crystals near the two-dimensional…

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester

In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…