M. Danhof, Co-promotores: J. Freijer, A. Yassen

Het Leids Academisch Kunstcentrum biedt een groot aantal korte en langere cursussen beeldende kunst aan. Het gevarieerde aanbod is zowel voor beginnende cursisten, als meer gevorderden cursisten toegankelijk. In de lessen wordt rekening gehouden met de verschillende ervaringsniveaus. Voor het LAK…

Er waart een spook door het Westen, niet dat van het communisme, maar van het cultuurmarxisme.

Het Leids Academisch Kunstcentrum biedt fotografie voor beginners en gevorderden aan. Tijdens de fotografiecursussen verken je de mogelijkheden van de camera die van belang zijn om de creatieve mogelijkheden van fotografie ten volle te kunnen benutten. Aan het eind van elke les wordt een opdracht gegeven…

De YAL laat zich horen over beleidskwesties.

Dankzij een slimme nieuwe techniek zijn Leidse astronomen er voor het eerst in geslaagd om de atmosfeer van een exoplaneet gedetailleerd te onderzoeken. De resultaten van hun onderzoek worden op 28 juni gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Nature.

De kwaliteit van de zorg voor onze ouderen kunnen we verbeteren. Met oog voor de biologische, sociale en management aspecten biedt deze master belangrijke inzichten voor verbeteringen. De master Health, Ageing and Society zet je aan het denken, zet je aan het werk en geeft richting aan je carrière.

Van 7-9 juni 2023 organiseert Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) haar tweede internationale conferentie in Den Haag. Deadline voor inzendingen: 15 februari 2023.

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…

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

What is the mechanism of action preceding a physiological effects induced by metallic nanoparticles?

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

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…

Promotor: Koen Kuijken Co-promotor: Henk Hoekstra

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Glucocorticoids are potent anti-inflammatory drugs widely used clinically to treat various inflammatory and immune conditions. However, two main clinical problems limit their use. GCs trigger severe side effects and they induce acquired glucocorticoid resistance, especially during chronic systemic treatment…

Promotor: T.H. Oosterkamp

This thesis explores different avenues to develop insurmountable antagonists for CC Chemokine Receptors, such as CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5.

The research of the Applied Mathematics cluster is concerned with such diverse topics as dynamical systems, representation theory, differential equations and pattern recognition.

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

This thesis is is made of three parts. The first part describes a generalization of the Chabauty's method, that can be used to determine the rational points of a curve such that s+g>r+1, where g is the genusof the curve, r is the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of the jacobian of the curve and s is…

In meta-analysis, heterogeneity often exists between studies. In such cases, it is essential to investigate the sources of heterogeneity and understand the relationship between effect size and study characteristics (i.e., moderators).

In this work, we attempt to answer the question:

Op 23 juni 2020 verdedigde Santy Kouwagam haar proefschrift 'How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. A.W. Bedner en prof.dr. C.E. von Benda-Beckmann.

Glycosidases are important enzymes in the turnover of polysaccharides and glycoconjugates, and are involved in a range of human pathologies including genetic disorders such as Gaucher and Pompe disease, but also in various cancers.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

Promotor: Prof.dr. V. Icke, Co-Promotor: T.I. Madura

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

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

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.A.L. Biessen, Prof.dr. T.J.C. van Berkel

Promotor: F.P. Israel, Co-Promoter: R. Meijerink

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

The main goal of the research described in this thesis was the development of new photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) ruthenium(II) complexes bearing a non-toxic photolabile ligand.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a gram-negative plant pathogen belonging to the family Rhizobiaceae, is the causative agent of crown gall disease, which can affect many plant species including agronomically important ones.