Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Sociale Wetenschappen, Politieke Wetenschap

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

Does roadside management in the mid-west USA increase invertebrate diversity similar to practices in Europe?

Balsaminaceae is a diverse plant family characterized by a huge floral morphological diversity.

Promotores: J.A.van Veen, P.L.G.Klinkhamer. Co-promotor: E.E.Kuramae

What are trait-trait relationships in wetlands? To what extent the so-called leaf economics traits deviate from terrestrial ecosystems? How traits specific to wetland plant relate to plant strategies? What’s the relationship between wetland plant traits to the ecosystem functioning (e.g. productivity,…

Promotor: Erik F. Smets, Co-promotores: Barbara Gravendeel, Niels Raes

The study of orchid flowers, fruits, and inflorescences is crucial due to the remarkable diversity of orchid species and their unique adaptations to pollinators and seed dispersers. However, our understanding of the evolution and development of these organs within the orchid family remains limited.

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

Themabijeenkomst Leiden Empowerment Fund

Taalkundige Willem Adelaar is op 1 oktober benoemd tot Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. Hij is dan op de kop af 43 jaar verbonden aan de Leidse universiteit, waarvan twintig jaar als hoogleraar. Adelaar heeft een indrukwekkende staat van dienst op het gebied van Zuid-Amerikaanse, inheemse,…

Informatie over de diversity committee en LIAXX, het vrouwennetwerk van het Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) is beschikbaar in het Engels.

Wat is mijn bijdrage aan onze wereld? Dat is de vraag die studenten en onderzoekers van het Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) zichzelf dagelijks stellen. Ze willen in hun onderwijs en onderzoek stappen vooruitzetten op het gebied van de vier global challenges ‘Peace and justice’, ‘Sustainability’,…

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Het Expertisebureau D&I werkt nauw samen met de faculteiten van de Universiteit Leiden.

Een groep internationale astronomen heeft het toonaangevende tijdschrift Astronomy & Astrophysics ervan overtuigd om een naamswijzigingsbeleid voor transgender personen en anderen in te voeren. ‘Het is echt frustrerend dat zo'n grote organisatie een initiatief van buitenaf nodig had om haar beleid inclusiever…

In de masteropleiding Linguistics (specialisation) van de Universiteit Leiden kun je kiezen uit acht thema's: Applied Linguistics; Comparative Indo-European Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Language and Communication; Language Description and Documentation; Language Processing and Cognition;…

Promotie

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.

Plants and soils from natural ecosystems harbor great diversity of soil microorganisms, which could potentially contribute to the sustainability of horticulture. The knowledge about using wild plant species and soil from natural ecosystem to improve the crop health will advance the application of ecological…

Soil is a home for an unbelievable diversity and abundance of microbial life that is essential for supporting life on our planet.

In this thesis it is posed that the central object of preference discovery is a co-creative process in which the Other can be represented by a machine. It explores efficient methods to enhance introverted intuition using extraverted intuition's communication lines.

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…

This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…

Lezing

Given the accelerating appearance of antimicrobial resistance, there is an urgent need for more fundamental research into novel antibiotic strategies. The work in this thesis helps to address this global problem by developing new antibiotic compounds, inspired by the antibacterial mechanisms of the…

This thesis describes the role of pollution, specifically neonicotinoid insecticides, as an actor of the ongoing biodiversity decline.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

Diversiteit en inclusie zijn kernwaarden van de Universiteit Leiden.

Op 9 september 2009 viert de opleiding Life Science and Technology (LS&T) haar tienjarig bestaan.

World Teachers Festival 2024 - Celebrating and exploring language, culture, diversity and criticality in teaching and learning

This book aims to be a point of reflection and debate for journalists, academics and students to recognize a fundamental task in the duty of the communications professional, which is to influence through their daily work and their routines in order to achieve a more inclusive and plural society, through…