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Alexander van Oudenhoven Discoverer of the year 2016 10 January 2017
Environmental scientist Alexander van Oudenhoven has been chosen as Discoverer of the year of the Faculty of Science. Vice Rector Magnificus Hester Bi...
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Pam Engelberts receives the “Kees Bakker Award” 10 January 2017
Leiden Biology student Pam Engelberts received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2016 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fon...
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A clear picture of bacteria 10 January 2017
Freezing bacteria super fast to gain a true-to-nature image of the internal and external structure. Ariane Briegel Professor of Ultrastructural Biolog...
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'In an ideal world we would recycle everything' 06 January 2017
Merijn Tinga hit the headlines in 2016 as the Plastic Soup Surfer. In force six winds, the Leiden biologist ventured across the English Channel on a h...
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European project ImageInLife has started 06 January 2017
The Horizon 2020 project ImageInLife has started on 1 January, followed by a kick-off meeting at the coordinating University of Montpellier at the end...
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‘Decolonise the botanical treasure house’ 05 January 2017
The treasure houses of Leiden's University Library and Naturalis house wonderful historical collections with dried plants and botanical drawings. Prof...
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Leiden biologist receives National Zoology Award 22 December 2016
Maurijn van der Zee, evolutionary biologist at the IBL, received the National Zoology Award for his research on the evolutionary success of the insect...
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Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China 16 December 2016
The Faculty of Science has reinforced the collaboration in China during a group trip late November. Representatives from four institutes visited ten C...
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NWO grants two IBL-proposals by interdisciplinary research consortia 15 December 2016
Recently, NWO has decided to grant two interdisciplinary research proposals for national and international consortia submitted by researchers from the...
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Mysteries in snake venom evolution 08 December 2016
A new analysis of the king cobra genome by Michael Richardson, Christian Henkel (IBL) and collaborators at the IBL and Naturalis, Helsinki and Singapo...
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Delegation of Holland Rijnland visits the Institute of Biology 29 November 2016
On Thursday the 24th of November, Tseard Hoekstra and Jeroen Ververs (members of the delegation Holland Rijnland), Geert de Snoo (Dean Faculty of Scie...
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Most species-rich coral reefs are not necessarily protected 22 November 2016
Coral reefs throughout the world are under threat. After studying the reefs in Malaysia, Zarinah Waheed concluded that there is room for improvement ...
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Opening PoreLab 21 November 2016
PoreLab is officially opened on November 1st, 2016. This new lab located at the Sylvius Laboratory will be working with the latest DNA analysis techno...
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Break-through in the genetic modification of plants 15 November 2016
A collaboration between the IBL and LUMC has resulted in the discovery that the polymerase theta enzyme is essential for the integration of Agrobacter...
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Better and faster ways of searching for antibiotics 27 October 2016
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a major problem worldwide. Molecular biologist Changsheng Wu explored innovative methods of developing new antibioti...