Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate, Co-promotor: H.W. Slabbekoorn

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

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

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.

This thesis is concerned with the constitution of chiral responsive matrix assemblies that may undergo light-driven conformational changes and self-select vibrations to develop vibronic states for driving semi-classical coherent transfer with nearly 100% yield in a lossless NCAP process.

Bicarbonate buffer is largely found in nature due to its ability to regulate pH variations around neutral values. As the pH changes, so does the speciation of the buffer.

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

Spectroscopic studies on fluorescent single molecules in organic condensed matter does not only provide information about the molecule itself, but also its near environment. By suppression of phonon-induced broadening of spectral lines through cooling to low temperatures, small changes in the spectral…

Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) have been detected in objects across different stages of stellar evolution.

Geometric phases lead to a nontrivial interference result when an electron's different quantum mechanical paths choices encircle a magnetic coil in an Aharonov-Bohm experiment.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

One of the effects of climate change is the phenomenon of desertification, a process that occurs in semi-arid and arid areas and causes land degradation as well as vegetation loss. Due to the lack of resources, vegetation self-organizes to sustain itself by forming large-scale spatial patterns.

In a typical glycosylation reaction, a donor is activated to form a (variety of) electrophilic species which can react with a nucleophilic acceptor, following a reaction mechanism having both SN1 and SN2 character.

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

Volg een keuzevak in beeldende kunst, design of muziek!

A dense region of a gaseous and dusty cloud collapses to form a protostar surrounded by a disk and an envelope. This thesis uses both observations and models to study physical and chemical conditions of these protostellar systems which are likely where planets start to form.

Congres/symposium

Bio-energie met koolstofafvang en -opslag is een veelbelovende methode om CO2 uit de atmosfeer te halen en tegelijkertijd energie op te wekken. Maar deze methode is controversieel, omdat er veel grond en water voor nodig is.

Is dat appje bot of juist vriendelijke bedoeld? In geschreven taal ligt een misinterpretatie altijd op de loer. Universitair docent Lauren Fonteyn legt in Trouw uit hoe dit komt.

How are borders drawn? More specifically, how do diplomatic actors manage the implications of changes in state sovereignty for international borders?

GLOBOX is a spatially differentiated multimedia fate, exposure and effect model. It is used for the calculation of spatially differentiated LCA characterisation factors on a global scale.

Arjen Doelman (Universiteit Leiden), Max Rietkerk (Universiteit Utrecht), Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) en Isla Myers-Smith (University of Edinburgh) ontvangen voor hun RESILIENCE-project een ERC Synergy-subsidie van 10 miljoen euro. De wetenschappers gaan onderzoeken of en hoe we…

Op 19 november promoveerde Tuqa Jirmo Huqa, verbonden aan zowel het Centrum voor Milieukunde als het instituut Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie op zijn onderzoek over de ecologische gevolgen van klimaatverandering.

Op 20 juni sprak Armin Cuyvers op de Riga Graduate School of Law tijdens de slot conferentie van het Jean Monnet project fundamental rights at the frontiers of the European Union – looking for a new balance.

De YAL laat zich horen over beleidskwesties.

Het onderzoek valt onder het facultaire thema coherent privaatrecht.

Lezing

Barrier function is the natural role of the skin. The lipid matrix present in the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum is important for this function.

As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).

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.

A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile

Freshwater and brackish water ecosystems are arguably the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth, due to concentrated human developments in and around them. The Pontocaspian (PC) region located at the border of Europe and Asia contains a variety of brackish water ecosystems and unique inhabitants, known…

Childhood obesity is an increasing health issue. In the first part of this thesis comorbidities in children with obesity were studied, concerning the diagnostic process and dosing regimens.

In the Schouwburgstraat, LUGO is currently redesigning the back-garden in order to increase biodiversity and make it a more beautiful space. Throughout October 2023 until March 2024, we will be making changes to the garden with our team of volunteers.

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

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.

The prevalence of obesity (BMI >40 kg/m2) has increased rapidly over the recent years, not only in adults, but also in children and adolescents.