The function of TLRs in innate immunity has aroused worldwide attention soon after its discovery. Because of the broad functions of TLR2 in innate immunity, the drive for the development of TLR2-targeted vaccines or therapeutic treatments has accelerated in the last decades.

Aoife Fleming is als Jongerenvertegenwoordiger aanwezig bij de VN Klimaattop in Glasgow. Onlangs rondde ze de master Financieel Recht af. Vanuit Glasgow praat ze ons bij over wat ze daar doet.

In het Nederlandse tv-programma 'NOS Amalia en Caribisch Nederland' vertelt Stacey over de impact van klimaatverandering op de kust, het koraal en de cultuur op Bonaire.

Carbon dioxide capture and utilization technologies are necessary to create a truly circular economy. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formate is an appealing carbon utilization method as it can be performed at room temperature and pressure, it only requires two electrons, and it has…

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml

HEPGAME is a research project that combines the world’s fastest computer algebra system for High Energy Physics equations, FORM, with insights from artificial intelligence. The name combines High Energy Physics and Games.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel

Solar energy harnessed by plants and algae has great potential to be converted into biofuels for future generations.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

Alumnus en oud-lid Raad van Advies Kees van Lede, oud-topman van AkzoNobel, is op 78-jarige leeftijd overleden. De heer Van Lede overleed op 22 december jongstleden aan de gevolgen van corona.

Bijzonder Hoogleraar Public Affairs Arco Timmermans werd samen met Martijn Vonk geïnterviewd over hun vakgebied Public Affairs voor de rubriek 'Junior Meets Senior'.

What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?

Effectiveness and Side-effects.

This paper describes the development process of voting behavior in Chile; particularly the relationship between the class voting theory and the theory of cultural post-materialist vote is investigated. This research deals with Chile as a case study, a developing country with a relatively stable democracy…

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management

In the search for sustainable energy solutions, the idea of artificial photosynthesis has been proposed as an approach with which to use water and sunlight to produce hydrogen.

In this thesis,

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn & Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

Clinical development of drugs for central nervous system (CNS) disorders has been particularly challenging and still suffers from high attrition rates.

In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.

Even though more than 4000 extra-solar planets are known today, only a small fraction of these has been captured in an image. To better understand the planet formation mechanisms in solar-like environments we started the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES).

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

Promotor: C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, Co-promotor: Sandra de Weert

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

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

Pulsars were first discovered in 1967 and since then the population has grown and expanded over several wavelengths.

Bij de MuseumJeugdUniversiteit geven diverse Leidse wetenschappers college aan kinderen, over onderwerpen als de oudheid, de ruimte en nepnieuws.

Universitair Docent Tazuko van Berkel bespreekt bij Spraakmakers verschillende ideeën over de economie in de Griekse oudheid. Ze vertelt hoe het vergelijken van het 'economische denken' tussen toen en nu heel leerzaam kan zijn.

Een uitgebreid en multidisciplinair team van verouderingsexperts krijgt ruim 8,5 miljoen euro voor een grootschalig onderzoek naar factoren en oplossingen die bijdragen aan het gezond ouder worden en het vergroten van vitaliteit. Onder andere het LUMC en het Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research…

In de opleiding Griekse en Latijnse taal en cultuur leer je het Grieks en Latijn optimaal te beheersen. Je ontwikkelt inzicht in de wijsbegeerte, geschiedenis en literatuur van de klassieke tijd en leert antieke thema’s herkennen in de schilderkunst en literatuur van nu. Ook zie je hoe de antieke cultuur…

Van alle vormen van etnisch en raciaal vooroordeel heeft het antisemitisme verreweg de langste geschiedenis. In zijn nieuwe boek analyseert Chris Quispel het anti-semitisme over vijfentwintig eeuwen.

Wat betekent het om “gerechtigheid te brengen” in een overgangsperiode? Gerechtigheid voor wat, gerechtigheid voor wie, en met welk doel?

Overzicht van de belangrijkste papyrologische websites

In this course, you will develop an understanding of evolutionary processes and their formative power. You will see how evolution has shaped biodiversity, and continuously influences our daily life.

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

Op 11 mei 2016 ontving het Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law Robert Pickel voor de elfde Hazelhoff Guest Lecture, getiteld ‘The Deadliest Sin of the Financial Crisis’.

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?