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- Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting 2024
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Tuning in to star-planet interactions at radio wavelengths
Low-mass main-sequence stars like our Sun are continuous sources of outflowing hot magnetised plasma. In the case of the Sun, this is known as the solar wind, whereas for other stars they are called stellar winds.
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Science Communication & Society
The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.
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Through the magnifying glass
Although nanoparticles are extensively used in various applications like consumer products and have most probably entered the environment, little is known about the effects of these particles on living organisms.
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Functional analysis of agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence protein VirD5
Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas
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Uncovering the ingredients for planet formation
This thesis discusses the physical and chemical processes than influence the composition of forming planets.
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Inducing spin triplet superconductivity in a ferromagnet
Promotor: J. Aarts
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Arithmetic of affine del Pezzo surfaces
In this thesis integral points on affine del Pezzo surfaces are studied.
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Environmental footprints: assessing anthropogenic effects on the planet's environment
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs
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On transport properties of Majorana fermions in superconductors: free & interacting
Majorana fermions in superconductors are the subgap quasiparticle excitations that are their own antiparticles.
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Cavity quantum electrodynamics with rare-earth ions in solids
Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood
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Inferno Worlds
A remarkable population of short period transiting rocky exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures on the order of 2,000 K has recently been discovered.
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Pharmaceutical Aspects of Subvisible Particles in Protein Formulations
Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe
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Enriching official economic statistics using data-driven modelling techniques
Netherlands Statistics (CBS), Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam have started a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Enriching official economic statistics using data-driven modelling techniques'.
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Zebrafish xenograft model: identification of novel mechanisms driving prostate cancer metastasis
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancer in males.
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Optical properties of DNA-hosted silver clusters
Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft
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Liposome-based synthetic long peptide vaccines for cancer immunotherapy
Promotores: Wim Jiskoot; Ferry Ossendorp
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Precision modeling of breast cancer in the CRISPR era
The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.
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Faint Quasars at Very Low Frequencies
In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?
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Nuclear magnetic resonance force microscopy at millikelvin temperatures
Promotor: T.H. Oosterkamp
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The ecological relevance of chemical diversity in plants
Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder
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Statistical methods for microarray data
Promotores: J.C. van Houwelingen, S.A. van de Geer
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Chaotic dynamics in N-body systems
Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart
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Infrared spectroscopy of astrophysically relevant hydrocarbons
This thesis is about the study of hydrocarbons via infrared spectroscopy.
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Better Predictions when Models are Wrong or Underspecified
Promotor: P.D. Grünwald
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Coiled-coils on lipid membranes: a new perspective on membrane fusion
Promotor: J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-Promotor: A. Kros
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Phenotypic engineering of photosynthesis related traits in Arabidopsis thaliana using genome interrogation
Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal
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Credible sets in nonparametric regression
Promotor: Prof.dr. A.W. van der Vaart
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Suppressing a Sea of Starlight: Enabling technology for the direct imaging of exoplanets
Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik
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Filter-based reconstruction methods for tomography
Promotor: K.J. Batenburg
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Growth-induced self-organization in bacterial colonies
Mechanical forces are known to play an important role in bacterial colonies. In this dissertation, we study the self-organization at various stages of growing bacterial colonies, and focus on the mechanical effects of cell growth.
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Probing Gravity at Cosmic Scales
The theoretical explanation of cosmic acceleration is nowadays one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.
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Current challenges in statistical DNA evidence evaluation
Promotor: R.D. Gill, F. Taroni
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Shaping Massive Galaxies: the structural evolution of galaxies across
Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.
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Global distribution patterns of mycorrhizal associations
Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.
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High-Contrast Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks
To study how planetary systems come into existence we study much younger systems still in formation.
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Weighing the Dark: Cosmological Applications of Gravitational Lensing
Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra
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Calcium-dependent regulation of auxin transport in plant development
The plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development through polar cell-to-cell transport-generated maxima and minima. PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers determine the direction of this auxin flow through their asymmetric placement on the plasma membrane (PM).
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In de media en onderzoek
Hieronder vind je een overzicht van hoe onderzoekers van de faculteit Governance and Global Affairs en hun onderzoeken in de media verschijnen, en lees je meer over onderwerpen waar de faculteit zich mee bezighoudt.
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Materials Innovative Technologies Assessment (MIN-TEA)
How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?
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Non-target effects of GM potato: an eco-metabolomics approach
Promotores: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, P.M. Brakefield, Co-Promotor: M. Bruinsma
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Development of a Dynamic Substance Stock Model
Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.
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Dynamic organization of bacterial chromatin by DNA bridging proteins
Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.
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CarbonCap
In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.
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Calcas: Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability
Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.
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Flexing the Slot Regime
Op 16 december 2021 verdedigde Lisanne van Houten het proefschrift 'Flexing the Slot Regime'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof. L. Pierallini (Luiss University Of Rome).
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Diagnostics for mechanical heating in star-forming galaxies
Promotor: F.P. Israel, Co-Promoter: R. Meijerink
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Pharmacology based toxicity assessment: towards quantitative risk prediction in humans
Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof
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Integrative taxonomy of araneomorph spiders: Breathing new life into an old science
Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.
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Sterile neutrinos in the early Universe
Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky