There is no heritage without emotional sharing and clashing. This article explores the involvement of divergent emotions in heritage making by discussing the debate series of Imagine IC and the Reinwardt Academy and zooming in on the commemoration of slavery and imagery of ‘Black Pete’ in the Netherlands.…

Three major cosmology-focused missions are planned for the next decade: the Euclid space telescope, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Een internationaal team van astronomen, waaronder Leidenaar Christian Ginski, heeft nog nooit eerder waargenomen structuren ontdekt in een stofschijf rond een nabije ster. Publicatie in Nature op 8 oktober.

Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.

Promotor: Bas Edixhoven, Promotor: Qing Liu

This PhD-thesis presents a study on micron-sized particles, so-called colloids. By controlling the chemical and physical properties of these particles, such as the interparticle interaction and the particles’ shape, colloids can act as building blocks that self-assembly into larger structures.

Wil jij je mening laten horen over de opleiding, de faculteit en de universiteit en lijkt het je leuk om met een bestuurder in gesprek te gaan? Geef je op en misschien ben jij een van de studenten die wordt geselecteerd voor de lunchbijeenkomst op 5 juli 2017 met assessor Aurelie van ’t Slot en vice-decaan…

Promotor: M.A.G.J. Orrit

Sociaaleconomisch Beleid: Empirische Analyse, een nieuw vak voor bachelorstudenten Bestuurskunde die de richting Economie, Bestuur en Management volgen.

What is leadership? Can it be taught, and if so, how? The International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP) helps students find their own style, say ILLP graduate Marko Simovski and his former coach Annah Neve in an interview: 'It’s about you, discovering you.'

Ruim zeventig promovendi uit Leiden en Delft kwamen op 13 juli bijeen op het strand van Katwijk voor een workshop van de Casimir Research School: ‘So you have a degree in Science. Now what?’

Climate change is one of the largest challenges faced by humanity. To combat this research into alternatives to fossil fuels is ongoing. Dihydrogen is considered a good alternative fuel, since its burning only forms water.

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

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).

ACPA biedt keuzevakken in kunst, muziek en film. Als student van de Universiteit Leiden maar ook als student van de Hogeschool der Kunsten Den Haag(Koninklijk Conservatorium en Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag) kun je via ACPA deze keuzevakken volgen.

This dissertation contains four works during my PhD. Different biomaterials have been designed based on coiled-coil peptides. These biomaterials have a range of applications, inclusing drug delivery, cell sorting to cell-cell fusion.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

We have studied the impact of particle shape anisotropy, multivalent interactions and flexibility on systems of micron-sized colloidal particles.

Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen

Over several decades, a variety of computational methods for drug discovery have been proposed and applied in practice. With the accumulation of data and the development of machine learning methods, computational drug design methods have gradually shifted to a new paradigm, i.e. deep learning methods…

Scherpe nieuwe opnamen laten opvallende structuren zien in de planeetvormende schijven rond jonge sterren. Daarover publiceren verschillende teams astronomen, onder wie Leidse sterrenkundigen Jos de Boer en Christian Ginski.

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

In this thesis, the focus lies on studying glucocorticoid receptor dynamics in living cells with the aim of understanding how this transcription factor finds its DNA target sites to regulate transcription.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Every organisms in the tree of life faces the same challenge: the length of its DNA exceeds the volume of the cell it needs to fit in. Several strategies have evolved to solve this problem, one of them being the expression of proteins that bind and organize the DNA.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Synthesis and application of chemical biology tools to study immunomodulatory signaling lipids.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper, Prof.dr. P.H.A. Quax, Co-promotor: I. Bot

Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas Co-Supervisor: R. Offringa

Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.

This thesis consists of two main parts. The first part (Chapters 2 and 3) deals with a class of Markov process called Quasi-Skipfree (QSF) processes.

Synthetic hydrogels that mimic the natural extracellular matrix in the biophysical and biochemical cues it provides to cells are in high demand, however the cell phenotypes as they are observed in vivo in numerous cases have yet to be attained.

What is movements and corridors of the Bornean pygmy elephant in Sebuku forest? What is the nature of human-elephant conflict in Nunukan District in time and space? What are the diets of the Bornean elephants related to crop raiding?

This thesis presents the first synthetic peptides ADP-ribosylated on serine, threonine, tyrosine, arginine and cysteine.

Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.

In this thesis, classes of strongly interacting quantum field theories, have been studied.

The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

In this thesis, we describe the latest advances in SQUID-detected Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM).

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), one of the largest families of membrane proteins, are responsive to a diverse set of physiological endogenous ligands including hormones and neurotransmitters.

This thesis explores different avenues to develop insurmountable antagonists for CC Chemokine Receptors, such as CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5.

Bacteria have the ability to alter their morphology in order to adapt to changing environments.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper