Arco Timmermans, bijzonder hoogleraar Public Affairs, werd gevraagd door Argos op tv om een reactie te geven op de alcohollobby. Ook bij NPO Radio 1 geeft hij een interview over het beleid van de alcoholindustrie.

Studievoorlichting, Q&A-sessie

Op vrijdag 2 december 2016 heeft een internationale onderzoeksconferentie plaatsgevonden in Leiden. Deze was georganiseerd door de onderzoeksgroep van Coherent Privaatrecht. De conferentie droeg de titel “Private law and market regulation – interaction, interference or inconsistency?”. Het centrale…

uman skin equivalents (HSEs) are in vitro 3D-skin models that mimic many aspects of the native human skin (NHS) and can be a valuable tool.

Since its beginnings, Leiden University has been home to scholars with a broad and diverse expertise in the histories, languages, literatures and material cultures relevant to the study of Jews and Judaism from antiquity to modern times.

Cursus, Verdiepingsleergang

Afgelopen week bleek dat Cora van Nieuwenhuizen wilde aanblijven als minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, terwijl ze al een baan had aanvaard als lobbyist. Arco Timmermans, Hoogleraar Public Affairs aan de FGGA, gaf zijn visie op de situatie in een artikel van de Volkskrant.

The ultimate aim of this project (initiated by the European Law Institute) is to design a framework that will enable the further development of coherent and functional rules for business rescue in Europe.

Afstudeerceremonie

Het Instituut voor Geschiedenis feliciteert Manon van der Heijden met het verkrijgen van een VICI-subsidie voor het onderzoek 'Crime and Gender 1600-1900: a comparative perspective.'

Afstudeerceremonie

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

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.

The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.

This thesis describes the synthesis and biochemical evaluation of a variety of cyclophellitol based activity-based probes and inhibitors targeting various endo- and exo-acting retaining glycosidases. In the last two decades a variety of probes and inhibitors for (hemi)cellulose degrading enzymes have…

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

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).

The overarching clinical aim of this thesis was to improve pharmacological pain management by characterizing the pharmacodynamics of analgesics. This promotion has been awarded the predicate cum laude.

Promotor: P. J. J. Hooykaas Co-promotor: B. S de Pater

In the last decade, the redox interconversion between metal thiolate and disulfide compounds has been extensively investigated for copper, but not for other transition metal ions.

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

To this day, all cyclophellitol-based inhibitors and ABPs have been close analogues of their natural substrate counterparts. As a result, these probes showed high selectivity towards their target glycosidases.

There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

This thesis is dedicated to the exploration of the primordial dark ages: unknown physics during the earliest stages of the Universe’s expansion that have not yet been directly probed by observations. Cosmic inflation is a burst of exponential expansion of space after the “Big Bang”.

The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.

Phosphorylation affects all four major biomolecules – proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids – and plays a pivotal role in the most fundamental cellular functions.

A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…

Cholesterol influences many pathways, including serving as precursor for adrenal steroidogenesis. Imbalance of cholesterol levels has been implicated in several diseases including cardiovascular diseases and its underlying pathology, atherosclerosis.

The PID-directed shift in PIN polarity has been broadly accepted as one of the essential mechanisms for the regulation of auxin transport polarity.

De in de introductie geschetste ontwikkelingen leiden ertoe dat huishoudens meer verantwoordelijk gaan dragen voor sociale risico’s, meer zelf moeten plannen, over een langere periode en onder meer onzekerheid.Dit geldt niet alleen in Nederland, maar ook in andere westerse landen. Dit leidt tot de onderstaande…

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

Tracing the evolution of the molecular gas content in galaxies is critical for a complete understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, as it provides the direct fuel for star formation. Studies of high-redshift (z>1) molecular gas reservoirs, most commonly traced by carbon monoxide (CO), have seen…

Alles met betrekking tot politiek, bestuur en communicatie valt samen in dit domein. Als cursist voor de bekende Public Affairs basis- en verdiepingsleergang wordt de verbinding tussen de politieke en maatschappelijke omgeving gelegd en krijg je inzicht in politieke en bestuurlijke processen. Daarnaast…

De universiteit streeft ernaar dat alle studenten in hun opleiding kennismaken met duurzaamheidsthema’s en -vraagstukken, die zoveel mogelijk aansluiten bij de inhoud van hun opleiding.

Het LLC draagt bij aan zowel initieel onderwijs over publiek leiderschap in de bachelor, master en honours programma’s, als aan post-academische opleidingen voor professionals.

Het onderwijs binnen het Instituut Bestuurskunde richt zich op de studie van het openbaar bestuur in brede zin, inclusief de semi publieke sector, lobbyorganisaties, het maatschappelijk middenveld en relevante private organisaties. Het onderwijs vertrekt hierbij vanuit een interdisciplinaire en theoretisch-empirische…

Wij dagen studenten uit hun talenten verder te ontwikkelen. Binnen de universiteit en opleiding zijn hier verschillende mogelijkheden voor, waaronder uitwisseling via het EMPA-netwerk, Master Honours Classes & Challenges en het Leiden Leadership Programme.

The research described in this Thesis was aimed at designing and synthesizing nature-inspired compounds as part of TB vaccine discovery.

The class-imbalance problem is a challenging classification task and is frequently encountered in real-world applications. Various techniques have been developed to improve the imbalanced classification performance theoretically and practically.

An overview is given of the flows of chlorine and chlorinated hydrocarbons through the Europian Union.

Single-Molecule Microscopy (SMM) techniques constitute a group of powerful imaging tools that enable researchers to study the dynamic behavior of individual molecules.

In this study the flows of PVC and its additives through the Swedish Society were followed from the cradle to the grave (from production to waste treatment).

‘We moeten oppassen dat respect voor politiek pluralisme niet leidt tot het accepteren van een essentialistisch verschil tussen “West” en “Oost” als het aankomt op menselijke waardigheid,’ waarschuwt universitair docent Casper Wits in NRC.

Geen enkele natiestaat kan de huidige mondiale uitdagingen alleen oplossen. In de specialisatie International and European Governance krijg je een diepgaand inzicht in de interactie tussen de internationale, EU- en (sub)nationale governancesystemen en hoe deze interactie de capaciteit van openbare autoriteiten…