Jingshu Zhu verdedigde haar proefschrift op woensdag 21 februari 2018.

Op 5 oktober verdedigde Katherine Filesia het proefschrift 'Speaking the same language: de invoering van de Anglo-Amerikaanse trust in het Nederlandse recht'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door Pim Huijgen en Frans Sonneveldt.

The lipid membrane is a basic structural component of all living cells. Embedded in this nanometer-thin barrier, membrane proteins shape the membrane and at the same time respond to the shape of the membrane.

The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.

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.

Comparing the global warming potential (GWP) of the service provided by an iRex Digital Reader to the same service provided by an office printer using a scanning LCA.

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

How can we, together international experts, define future needs of R+D contributions for innovations in the field of risk-based management of chemicals and products in a global perspective using alternative testing strategies to minimize animal tests?

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Promotor: Prof.dr. H.A.G. Wijshoff

Curved single crystals provide variable, but well-defined surface structures.

The work in this thesis demonstrates how to obtain an atomic-scale picture of a diverse set of complex surface structures observed using STM, under disparate conditions.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

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Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas

This thesis describes the implementation and on-sky demonstration of high-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for extreme adaptive optics systems that are used to find and characterize exoplanets.

Promotor: Koen Kuijken Co-promotor: Henk Hoekstra

Supervisor: S.F. Portegies Zwart Co-Supervisor: A.G.A. Brown

Promotor: R. Gill, Co-promotor: P. Massart

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy.

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

A large diversity of exoplanetary systems has been found, but it is still unclear what drives this diversity.

Transplantation of labial salivary glands to the eyelids for patients with dry eye appears to give excellent results clinically.

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Promotores: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, P.M. Brakefield, Co-Promotor: M. Bruinsma

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: D. Claessen

The studies presented in the work show the potential of the integrative use of biophysical data in defining the structural basis of protein interactions.

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: T.H. Reijmers

In this work, we illustrate unconventional approaches towards the fabrication of edge functionalized graphene nanostructures and bidimensional architectures in polymeric and metallic supports, with an outlook towards molecular sensing devices.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

For each living organism health is ensured by correct functioning of its cells. Cells therefore have elaborate methods for regulation of their proteins.

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

Drug development is a time- and resource-consuming process that starts with the discovery and validation of a (protein) target that contributes to pathogenesis or disease progression.

The specialisation Science Communication and Society (SCS) concerns science communication in a broad sense. The program focuses on the link between science and society and covers knowledge and skills in the field of science communication.

Mining time series is a machine learning subfield that focuses on a particular data structure, where variables are measured over (short or long) periods of time.

Promotor: P. J. J. Hooykaas, Co-promotor: R. Offringa

In this thesis we classify the pairs (p,G), where p is a prime number and G is a finite p-group possessing an intense automorphism, i.e. an automorphism that sends each subgroup of G to a G-conjugate, that is non-trivial and whose order is coprime to p.

This dissertation studies the Asymptotics of Bayesian nonparametric inference for Gaussian linear models.

The applications of studying the early development of insects range from agriculture to material science.

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

Classical statistical methods, such as p-values, are difficult for researchers to apply correctly. They for example do not allow drawing conclusions from a study early, or for extending a study with extra research groups that want to make their data available later.