368 search results for “leiden empowerment fungi” in the Public website
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Peeking into the future: Fungi in the greening Arctic
Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml
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Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in China and Indonesia
A political-legal study of rights invocation by pollution victims in China and Indonesia
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Heterogeneity in spores of food spoilage fungi
This project intends to provide the required knowledgebase for the design of novel mild intervention protocols to prevent fungal food spoilage.
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Fungi of the greening Arctic: compositional and functional shifts in response to climatic changes
Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml
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Do fungi differ? Understanding the mechanisms of mycorrhizal fungal impacts on soil C sequestration
How presence, abundance and enzymatic activities of AM and EM fungi differently affect soil carbon sequestration processes?
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Paths through slavery: urban slave agency and empowerment in Suriname, 1700-1863
How did slaves in the eighteenth century manage to empower themselves and their kin, and why did this become all the more difficult in the nineteenth century?
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Listening to Silence: Silence as Empowerment in contemporary Dutch decolonial memory activism
In Dutch society’s discussions about remembering the colonial past, voice is often used as a metaphor for empowerment ('we must raise our voices'), whereas silence is often used as voice’s negative counterpart, signifying a loss or lack of power ('we will no longer be silenced'). Yet, silence is expressive:…
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Ladies-only! Empowerment and Comfort in Gender-segregated Kickboxing in the Netherlands
The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…
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Using fungi to produce renewable energy
Ebru Alazi ‘hacked’ an enzyme-producing system in the fungus Aspergillus niger in order to produce renewable energy more easily. She manipulated the fungus, making it produce more pectinases: enzymes mainly used in the food industry and in the production of renewable energy, such as biofuels. Promotion…
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Soudzilovskaia wins prestigious German research prize for international fungi research
Environmental scientist Nadia Soudzilovskaia has been awarded the prestigious, international Bessel-Forschungs prize issued by the Von Humboldt foundation. This German award is issued to outstanding foreign mid-career scientists that collaborate with German researchers. ‘The combination of different…
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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate change
A special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate change. However, the amount of carbon stored in soil is decreasing as a result of human activity. This is what researchers say in a publication in Nature Communications.…
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Fungi add flavour to vanilla
Fungi living in vanilla plants play a role in the development of the taste and smell of vanilla, according to Shahnoo Khoyratty of the Institute of Biology Leiden. PhD defence on 27 October.
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An artistic view on the hidden fungi in the soil
Music from a compostable cello, photographs and scents of fungi and a woven tapestry. With her upcoming multimedia project Super Organism, visual artist Suzette Bousema enables people to experience the underground fungal network with all their senses. Environmental scientist Nadia Soudzilovskaia and…
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Global distribution patterns of distinct mycorrhizal types and ecological drivers of these patterns
What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?
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New database reveals plants' secret relationships with fungi
Leiden researchers have compiled information collected by scientists over the past 120 years into a database of plant-fungal interactions. This important biological data is now freely available for researchers and nature conservationists. Publication in New Phytologist.
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Carel Stolker to retire: donate to the Leiden Empowerment Funds
Carel Stolker will retire as Rector Magnificus of Leiden University on 8 February. As a retirement gift he is setting up a fund for first-generation students and academics. You too can donate.
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Sjoerd HuismanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hazal KandemirScience
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Ecological functioning of bacterial chitinases in soil
Promotores: Prof.dr. H. van Veen & Prof.dr. W. de Boer (Wageningen University)
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Cell architecture and pathways for parallel secretion in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger
Research aims: Identification of key genes involved in programming the cellular architecture of A. niger & Genetic engineering of A. niger in order to improve its secretory capacities and rheological behavior under industrial fermentation conditions.
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Cell Wall Dynamics in Aspergillus niger
This functional genomics project aims at understanding the biology of the underlying mycelium differentiation and autolysis processes in much more detail.
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Esther van Leeuwen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Emilia HannulaScience
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Antiquities of the rainforest: evolution of mycoheterotrophic angiosperms growing on Glomeromycota
Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: Dr. V.S.F.T. Merckx
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Ludo WaltmanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ana Parrón CabañeroFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Weilin HuangScience
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Sanne KellijFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Improving the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger as cell factory for starch degrading enzymes
We aim to develop A. niger strains that produce more starch degrading enzymes even in the absence of starch.
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Impact of insect herbivory and microbial inoculants on the rhizosphere microbiome and volatilome
This thesis aims to investigate the effect of tripartite interaction between microbial inoculants, the plant, and herbivore insects on the rhizosphere microbiome and volatilome. We investigated the rhizosphere microbiome and volatilome of tomato plants exposed to insect herbivory and/or inoculated with…
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Targeted Informed consent: empowering young participants in medical-scientific research
Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries
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Functions of autophagy in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger
What are the functions of autophagy in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger?
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Véronique OngenaeScience
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Witnessing the Process of Bacterial Cell Death: Novel Antimicrobials and Their Mechanisms of Action
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…
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Simone DobbelaarFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Linda van Leijenhorst
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nikki NibberingFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Chris VerhoevenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Robert-jan de RooijFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Janna Marie Bas-HoogendamFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aleksandrina SkvortsovaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Juan Claramunt GonzalezFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Judith SchomakerFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Involvement of host and bacterial factors in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation
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.
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The mechanism of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of eukaryotic cells
We aim to unravel the molecular mechanisms involved in the transformation of eukaryotic cells by Agrobacterium.
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Modelling the role of mycorrhizal associations in soil carbon cycling: insights from global analyses of mycorrhizal vegetation
In this PhD study, I aim to deepen our understanding of the influence of major mycorrhizal types, namely arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) and ectomycorrhizae (EM), on the global soil carbon cycle and their potential distribution changes under future environmental shifts.
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Microbial protection of food crops and human health
We investigate bacteria and fungi to understand their malicious or beneficial impact on food crops and their pathogenic or antibiotic role in human health.
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Development of new antibiotics from plant-originated products
Utilization of plant-originated products as new antibiotics
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Gerlov van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
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Arthur RamScience