Eerder onderzoek toonde al aan dat extreme verlegenheid erfelijk is. Maar omdat ‘verlegenheid’ zo’n breed concept is, is het moeilijk om specifieke genen te vinden. Anita Harrewijn ontdekte bepaalde hersenmaten die hierbij kunnen helpen. Promotie op 18 januari.

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Onderzoek naar flora en fauna met oog voor economische belangen én samenwerking met de lokale bevolking. Dit is allemaal gebundeld in een samenwerkingsprogramma van de Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname en Universiteit Leiden. Samenwerken op basis van gelijkheid staat voorop. ‘Een lastige uitdaging,…

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

Hoogleraar ontwikkelingspsychologie Eveline Crone is per 1 januari 2017 benoemd tot lid van de Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Raad (SWR) van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW).

In onderzoek wordt vaak theoretisch gesproken over jongvolwassenen en hun sociale mediagebruik. John Boy wil sociale mediaplatformen onderzoeken door mét gebruikers te praten in plaats van over hen.

How can we quantify the density of species within a community through environmental DNA concentrations?

Course Program 2023-2024

Describe and identify what dosimetry parameters are of importance to interpret dose-response relationships (eg., mortality, sub-lethal, growth or reproduction inhabitation, DNA damage and reactive oxygen species, etc. ) for metal-based nanoparticles? How to develop quantitative models that enable to…

How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

Research

The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

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

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

De YAL laat zich horen over beleidskwesties.

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.

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’.

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H. van Veen & Prof.dr. W. de Boer (Wageningen University)

Promotor: R. Cramer

Streptomyces are bacteria abundant in soil that participate in diverse and complex interactions. These bacteria are the main producers of the antibiotics we currently use in the clinic.

Promotor: I. A. G. Snellen, Co-promotor: M. A. Kenworthy

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

The spindle-assembly checkpoint (SAC) is a safety mechanism which secures accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis.

Streptomyces bacteria are a valuable source of natural products, many of which are used in the clinic or in biotechnology.

Hydrocarbonylation of alkenes with carboxylic acids in synthesis of carboxylic acid anhydrides is relatively less explored. We herein present a study and optimization of a palladium-catalyzed hydrocarbonylation reaction of alkenes using carboxylic acids as the nucleophile, by which acid anhydrides can…

Does a high quality prairie restoration in an urban/agricultural landscape provide invertebrates necessary for a sustainable ecosystem?

In this thesis we investigated the ability of two-photon multifocal microscopy for single-molecule microscopy in live cells and organisms.