Op 7 februari 2019 verdedigde Helena Ursic-Vrabec haar proefschrift 'Uncontrollable: Data subject rights and the data- driven economy'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. S. van der Hof.

The work in this thesis describes the fundamental role of Lkb1 as a conductor of metabolism-related processes in zebrafish larvae.

High-angular-resolution observations of the circumstellar material have uncovered numerous and very diverse substructures in protoplanetary discs, raising the question of whether they are caused by forming planets or other mechanisms.

Glucocorticoids (GCs) are widely prescribed as anti-inflammatory drugs due to their well-established immunosuppressive effects.

Op 11 februari 2020 verdedigde Clara van Dam haar proefschrift 'Guidance documents of the European Commission in the Dutch legal order'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. W. den Ouden en prof.dr. J.E. van den Brink (UvA).

Op 9 januari 2019 verdedigde Willem van der Muur zijn proefschrift 'Land rights and the forces of adat in democratizing Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. A.W. Bedner en prof. dr. J.M. Otto.

In this thesis, a system pharmacology approach, integrating metabolomics, pharmacology and chemical biology, was applied to understand and modulate the endocannabinoid system across different model systems (cells, zebrafish, mice and humans).

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets

Dit project onderzoekt het coördinerend vermogen van de EU in ernstige crises.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh

Matthias Haentjens, Jouke Tegelaar en Dorine Verheij schreven het hoofdstuk Financial Market Regulation and Supervision, dat recentelijk is gepubliceerd in het belangwekkende handboek The Law of the European Union (voorheen Kapteyn & VerLoren van Themaat).

The research described in this thesis shows that hypercholesterolemia, a well-established risk factor for atherosclerosis, can impact skin lipid pool and barrier function already at young age. In the field of atherosclerosis, we showed that the small peptide Lyp-1 can be used as a targeting molecule…

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

Langetermijnontwikkelingen, zoals het verouderen van de bevolking, de toename in de gemiddelde levensverwachting en de gevolgen van de recente financiële crisis, hebben bijgedragen aan de discussie rondom de houdbaarheid van het pensioenstelsel.

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

Promotor: G. van Dijk

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Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

Sobral

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.

In this thesis, topics relating to the optimization of high-throughput pipelines used for imaging are discussed. In particular, different levels of implementation, i.e., conceptual, software, and hardware, are discussed and the thesis outlines how advances on each level need to be made to make gains…

Wat kunnen de talen die vandaag gesproken worden op de Kleine Soenda-eilanden ons vertellen over de geschiedenis van de verschillende bevolkingsgroepen?

Promotor: Prof.dr. V. Icke, Co-Promotor: T.I. Madura

Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, B. Erez, Co-promotor: L. Taelman

Promotie

Op 19 februari 2020 verdedigde Richard Jiang zijn proefschrift '‘Greening’ the WTO Ban on China’s Export Duties'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. M.C.E.J. Bronckers.

An algorithm is discussed to compute the exponential representation of principal units in a finite extension field F of the p-adic rationals.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, L.D.J. Taelman

The European Council and the European Commission have a similar role in agenda setting. Both place issues on the EU agenda. However, these institutions have distinct designs. They have different political attributes (the European Council has considerably more political authority) and information-processing…

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

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?

Dissochaeta Blume (Melastomataceae, tribe Dissochaeteae) is well-known as a scrambling plant genus found in Southeast Asia, where it is an inhabitant of the tropical rainforests or evergreen forests.

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

Trigonostemon Blume is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 59 species.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.T.F. den Hollander

The Sun and all the stars in the night sky reside in the Milky Way galaxy. In the at-rest reference frame of the Galaxy, typical stars travel with velocities of about 100-200 kilometres per second.

In this course, you will explore the organs involved in our food digestion and discover the common causes of abdominal and pelvic pain. The latest graphics and animations will give you new insights and understandings of this part of the body.

Welke rol spelen ouder-kind interacties bij het ontstaan, in stand houden en de behandeling van depressieve klachten van jongeren?

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

In 2019 hebben het Europees Parlement en de Raad de Richtlijn Preventieve Herstructurering (2019/1023) aangenomen, die voorziet in minimale harmonisatie van onder andere preventieve herstructureringskaders (preventive restructuring frameworks, 'PRF'). Dit boek biedt verdiepende analyses van de implementatie…

The expanding population and economic activity are driving up global energy consumption. Simultaneously, there is an urgent need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources to mitigate the climate crisis, primarily caused by fossil fuel combustion.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

Bas Rietjens en zijn collega's onderzochten de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne en onderzochten deze veelvoud aan facetten en hun onderlinge verbanden.

Het symposium wordt georganiseerd door de afdeling Jeugdrecht van de Universiteit Leiden ter gelegenheid van de 30e verjaardag van het VN-Kinderrechtenverdrag

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

Streptomyces are multicellular, Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum of actinobacteria which produce a high amount of bioactive natural products of which the expression is tightly coordinated with the life cycle.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg