In light of climate change, it is crucial to determine whether plant species can adapt to future climates to avoid extinction. Plants adapt to various conditions by altering their functional traits, such as leaf size or photosynthetic rate. Some traits appear linked and vary together between species,…

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

Shape and biological function are tightly connected. Physical descriptions are used to connect the shape of a biological system with its function.

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

If mankind wants to survive into the 22nd century, we will need to change the way we live drastically. The human impact on our planet is everywhere, we are changing the atmosphere, the oceans and the land, leading to global warming, climate change, loss of biodiversity and pervasive pollution. There…

Congres/symposium

Op donderdag 26 oktober vond op het Europa Instituut de vierde ‘Meet the Author’ bijeenkomst plaats.

Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is responsible for light absorption and excitation energy transfer in plants and photosynthetic algae, while in high light it undergoes conformational changes by which it quenches excitations to prevent photodamage.

Organic amendments applied to agricultural fields can partially offset our carbon emissions to the atmosphere and improve the resilience of agriculture to the effects of climate change. Driving these benefits, however, are complex and poorly understood interactions between organic amendment properties,…

Bij eLaw verzorgen we een aantal vakken voor de master Jeugdrecht en voor de master International Children's Rights (Advanced LL.M.)

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

Material outflows from industrial economies.

Op 28 juni verdedigde Jakob Tobing het proefschrift 'De essentie van de constitutionele hervorming van 1999-2002 in Indonesië: het vormgeven van de Negara Hukum. Een rechtssociologisch onderzoek'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door Jan Michiel Otto en Adriaan Bedner.

Development of scenarios for 2050 detailed in an IO framework

CONSENT (Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy) is a research project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. The question central to this research is whether recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed…

Promotie

Promotie

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

The outbreaks of AIDS and COVID-19 showed clearly how infectious viruses can influence people’s lives. Investigating the changes in the host metabolism may provide a paradigm shift to consider immune-metabolic interactions as therapeutic targets.

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

De masteropleiding Governance of Sustainability leidt studenten op tot toekomstig 'change agents'. Zij leren bestuurlijke oplossingen ontwikkelen en zetten deze in bij complexe uitdagingen op het gebied van milieuduurzaamheid.

The thesis explores how interstellar chemistry evolves as a function of time and changing physical architectures during the formation of stars.

This thesis aimed to investigate the impact of exposure dynamics, relative contributions of ENPs(particle) and ENPs(ion), and dosing regimens on the toxicity of ENPs varying in different physico-chemical properties, on the composition and functioning of soil microbial communities.

Vinasse is a major by-product generated by the sugarcane biofuel industry. It is a source of microbes, nutrients and organic matter and often it is recycled as fertilizer.

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…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M de Groot, Co-Promotor: A. Alia

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

De eerste lichting masterstudenten Governance of Sustainability is geslaagd. Tijdens een feestelijke ceremonie in Wijnhaven op 17 september, ontvingen zij hun diploma. En ze zullen niet de laatsten zijn: De masteropleiding neemt alleen maar in populariteit toe. ‘We zijn erg trots op deze eerste lichting…

Esteban Szmulewicz, PhD verbonden aan de afdeling Staats- en bestuursrecht, Universiteit Leiden en deskundige op het gebied van decentralisatie, gaf een online-presentatie aan de subcommissie Politiek Stelsel, Grondwetsherziening en Staatsvorm in Chili en rapporteerde dat 'centralisme een zeer ernstig…

Lezing

Vrijdagochtend 8 juni was Thijs Bosker te horen in het NOS radio 1 journaal. Bosker (Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden) beantwoorde vragen over zijn expertise microplastics.

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

In this thesis population pharmacokinetic and physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) approaches were applied to investigate the influence of glomerular filtration (GF) and active tubular secretion (ATS) on renal clearance in children.