140 search results for “ouder-kind interaction” in the Staff website
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Research projects launched into biodiversity in food and horticulture production
Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started thanks to funding from the Dutch Research Council's KIC research programme.
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Bacteria stunt with established plant-soil feedback theory
‘What I find most alluring about soil life is that you can steer it,’ researcher Martijn Bezemer of the Institute Biology Leiden (IBL) reveals. ‘You can ask: What do you want? And then I can transform the soil into something you need. At least, that is what we thought.’
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Jos Raaijmakers nominated for Huibregtsenprijs 2022
The research project of Jos Raaijmakers is nominated for the Huibregtsenprijs 2022. The researcher of NIOO, with a guest appointment at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), is one of six nominees. On the Evening of Science & Society (Dutch: Avond van Wetenschap & Maatschappij), 10 October 2022, the…
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Carlotta Rigotti at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024
On 13 May 2024, Carlotta Rigotti took to the stage at WOROBET 2024, a workshop dedicated to robot ethics as part of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024 in Yokohama (Japan). Her presentation was entitled 'Ensuring sexual safety in human-machine interactions', based on a…
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Exploring the interactions of M dwarf winds and cosmic rays
PhD defence
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Enzyme-substrate interactions in the processive enzyme xylanase
PhD defence
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Marie Schwed Shenker to present at International Conference on Social Robots (ICSR 2024)
We are excited to announce that Marie Schwed Shenker's research paper, co-authored with Dr Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (Associate Professor at eLaw) and Professor Bart Custers (Professor of Law and Data Science), has been accepted for presentation at the 16th International Conference on Social Robotics…
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Research cluster workshop: collaborative research and stakeholder interaction
Course, Workshop
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Leiden biologists get awarded 730k NWO grant
Salma Balazadeh, Víctor Carrión, and Jos Raaijmakers, biologists at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), have successfully applied for an NWO grant and got awarded 730.000 euros. The board of NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences awarded funding for their project within the Open Technology Programme…
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Interaction of syntax and information structure: Focus-driven T-to-C movement of modal auxiliaries
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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India in the World: Interaction with Rahul Gandhi and Sam Pitroda
Lecture, Event
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Carlotta Rigotti attends Global Digital Intimacies conference
With ongoing discussions on digital intimacy in mind, Carlotta Rigotti presented preliminary findings on the regulation of sex robots through the AI Act. On 27 and 28 June 2024, Carlotta participated in the Global Digital Intimacies conference hosted by the University of Amsterdam. This international…
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Plant-soil interactions determine ecosystem aboveground and belowground processes in primary dune ecosystems
PhD defence
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Field Notes: An Interactive Session on Housing, Land, and Property in Global Hotspots
Debate
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Scholarship in Interaction: Case Studies at the Intersection of Codework and Textual Scholarship
PhD defence
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Modelling the Interactions of Advanced Micro- and Nanoparticles with Novel Entities
PhD defence
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Studies into Interactive Didactic Approaches for Learning Software Design Using UML
PhD defence
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inoculants and microbial volatiles on belowground microbe-plant interactions
PhD defence
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Global metabolomics and lipidomics approaches to probe virus-host interactions
PhD defence
- Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Above- and belowground interactions in Jacobaea vulgaris: zooming in and zooming out from a plant-soil feedback perspective
PhD defence
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behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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Depressed teens appear to be extra sensitive to parental criticism
Teens with depression appear to be more sensitive to criticism from their parents than their healthy peers are.
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Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
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Parental criticism hurts: a glimpse inside the adolescent brain
It may seem as though adolescents do as they please, but they are more sensitive to their parents’ opinions than they would appear. The adolescent brain reacts strongly to parental criticism or praise. These are the results of a study by an interdisciplinary research group of psychologists and neuroscientists…
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synthesis of metal-based chemotherapeutic agents for targeted DNA interactions or DNA repair pathway modulation
PhD defence
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Archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina worked on long-term landscape MOOC: ‘Everyone can learn something new from this course’
As part of the TerraNova project, a European research initiative on the study of landscape histories and futures, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) was developed. Anastasia Nikulina was one of the main chapter coordinators who worked on this course, and she worked on the part about modelling in landscape…
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A unique defence: Bacteria lose cell wall in the presence of virus
Bacteria temporarily live without their cell wall if dangerous viruses are near. A remarkable feature, as the cell wall is a sturdy barrier against threats. Still, the discovery has a logical explanation ánd might be of a consequence for fighting pathogenic bacteria, according to Véronique Ongenae,…
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Emerging Parenthood
PhD defence
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Alex Geurds receives NWO Vici grant for investigating human-environmental engagement across Central America & Colombia
During pre-Columbian times, the Central American isthmus was marked by dynamic exchange and human mobility. Despite this, indigenous communities were archaeologically stable between AD 300 and the 16th-century Spanish colonisation, contrasting with the cycles of florescence and decline of neighbouring…
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Awaken sleeping antibiotics with ERC Advanced grant
To facilitate the search for new antibiotics. That is the aim of Gilles van Wezel, professor molecular biotechnology at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). He wants to do this by looking at similarities in the DNA of antibiotic-producing bacteria. Van Wezel has been awarded an ERC Advanced grant…
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China Fashion Power - Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Rethinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer
Lecture, China Seminar
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[CANCELLED] A dynamic interaction between morphosyntactic structure and constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Record number of registrations for PhD course microscopy
‘Microscopy is by far the least understood, most inefficiently operated, and the most abused of all laboratory instruments,’ reads the quote on the office wall of microscopy unit supporters Joost Willemse en Gerda Lamers. It describes exactly why the two developed the microscopy course for starting…
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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'I have always worked for a better world. Here at Biology we do the same'
The new institute manager of the IBL studied biology for six months, but went in a completely different direction: development cooperation and the financial sector. Three decades later, Resi Janssen is making a radical career switch. Or isn’t she? 'In ten years’ time I want IBL to be in a new, sustainable…
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Abortion, Law, and Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
Conversation
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga awarded ERC Starting Grant
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enables talented early-career scholars to start their own pioneer project, lead a research team, and implement their best ideas at the frontiers of their…
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