434 search results for “cell chemistry” in the Staff website
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Lies Bouwman
Science
bouwman@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4550
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Willem Fibbe
Faculteit Geneeskunde
w.e.fibbe@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 2271
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Dennis Claessen
Science
d.claessen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5052
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Micha Drukker
Science
m.drukker@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6271
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Spatio-temporal aspects of antigen cross-presentation in dendritic cells
PhD defence
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Evani Lachmansingh
Science
e.t.lachmansingh@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Alexander Kros
Science
a.kros@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4234
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Douwe Atsma
Faculteit Geneeskunde
d.e.atsma@lumc.nl | +31 70 526 2020
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Marie-Jetta den Otter
ICLON
m.den.otter@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1672
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Making the invisible visible with ‘click chemistry’
Sander van Kasteren (Professor of Molecular Immunology) makes the invisible visible. He will explain more in his inaugural lecture.
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The career choices of cells
How does an embryonic stem cell decide if it becomes a heart cell or a kidney cell? That’s the question computational biologist Maria Mircea studied for her PhD research. She looked at the inside of individual cells to analyse how they change. This is what she discovered.
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How bittersweet sugar chemistry targets pathogens
The challenge is considerable, but so is the satisfaction when it succeeds: creating complex sugar molecules that play a role in biology.
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Frank Schaftenaar
Science
f.h.schaftenaar@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5134
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Willie Peijnenburg
Science
peijnenburg@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5172
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Bacteria without cell wall gobble up DNA from environment
A bacterium hiding from the immune system and picking up bits of DNA from its environment. The result: gaining new traits, such as better protection against antibiotics. Fortunately, we have not found such a damning scenario yet. However, PhD student Renée Kapteijn did find the first clues, which…
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How cells talk by pulling on a fibre network
Mechanics play a larger role in blood vessel formation, and other developmental biology, than previously thought. Cells appear to respond to mechanical signals, such as pressure. Through the extracellular matrix, a network of fibrous proteins, cells can supposedly exchange those mechanical signals over…
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Véronique Ongenae
Science
v.m.a.ongenae@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5075
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300 million euros for new international stem cell consortium
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Danstem Institute from the University of Copenhagen and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne have received 300m euros from the Novo Nordisk foundation. The aim of this new international consortium is to bring stem-cell based therapies…
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Arjan de Koning
Science
koning@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5653
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Femke Reidsma
Faculteit Archeologie
f.h.reidsma@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1680
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Nicola Thome
Science
n.u.thome@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4395
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Lars Jeuken
Science
l.j.c.jeuken@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4755
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Sander van Kasteren
Science
s.i.van.kasteren@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Modified caffeine molecules help medical research move forward
Before researchers can develop targeted drugs, they need to know exactly how a disease works. Biochemist Bert Beerkens created molecules that allow them to find out. He used caffeine as the basis for new molecules that enable research into certain receptor proteins on cells.
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Christine Mummery
Faculteit Geneeskunde
c.l.mummery@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 9300
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Tessa Vergroesen
Science
t.m.vergroesen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4912
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Ewa Snaar-Jagalska
Science
b.e.snaar-jagalska@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Erik Danen
Science
e.danen@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4486
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Noortje Dannenberg
Science
n.dannenberg@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5075
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Joost Beltman
Science
j.b.beltman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4323
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Apply for the Lorentz Center Chemistry Workshop competition
Research
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Arthur Ram
Science
a.f.j.ram@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4914
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry
How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She defends her thesis on 6 December.
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Stewart McDowall
Science
s.c.mcdowall@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marjolein Crooijmans
Science
m.e.crooijmans@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5075
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How cells determine the fate of proteins (and can we do it too?)
Cells in our bodies are often threatened by errors in our own proteins. The FLOW consortium, comprising scientists from various institutions including Leiden, is poised to meticulously map out for the first time how cells control proteins, correcting or removing faulty ones. This endeavour holds promise…
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Young, sleeping memory cells are crucial in fighting a reinfection
Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Oncode have created a tracking system that can reveal how often cells have divided. This allowed them to find a yet undiscovered population of immune cells: young memory cells that behave like stem cells.…
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Sander van Kasteren: from molecule builder to Professor of Chemical Immunology
Sander van Kasteren only noticed some small, subtle changes since he was appointed professor on 1 May. Still, he has to get used to the idea, even though he had been working towards the professorship for a few years. ‘I don't quite see myself as a professor yet.'
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forming embryo to cancer metastasis: the significance of collective cell movement
Luca Giomi has the first results of his ERC consolidator grant. He discovered that epithelial cells move collectively but in different ways, depending on the scale you look at. It is hexatic at small scales, and becomes nematic at larger scales: it is a multiscale order. This collective movement of…
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Tunnel vision alarm in the search for more efficient hydrogen cells
A tenacious postdoc researcher persuaded Professor Marc Koper to research the oxygen reduction reaction. In Koper's eyes, there was little of interest there. But they promptly discovered a whole new way to improve fuel cells on hydrogen and oxygen. Their article appeared in Nature Catalysis on 07 Ju…
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Francesco Buda
Science
f.buda@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5723
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Mario van der Stelt
Science
m.van.der.stelt@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4768
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Roxanne Kieltyka
Science
r.e.kieltyka@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4441
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Madeline Kavanagh
Science
m.e.kavanagh@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3527
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Saloni Saxena
Science
s.saxena@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4950
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Natalia Ortiz – Winner of the 2019 - 2020 KNCV Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology thesis prize
Natalia Ortiz (Division of Drug Discovery and Safety) has been awarded the 2019-2020 PhD-thesis prize by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology, from the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV-MCCB). The KNCV-MCCB thesis prize is a biannual award which is granted to the best PhD thesis…
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Inexhaustible source of human heart muscle cells allows strong reduction of animal testing
Researchers at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) have managed to culture human heart muscle cells on a massive scale. This is an exceptional achievement because it is very difficult to replicate heart muscle cells outside the body. Using a special technique, the researchers have now created…
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Stiffness and viscosity of cells differ in cancer and other diseases
During illness, the stiffness or viscosity of cells can change. Tom Evers demonstrated this by measuring such properties of human immune cells for the first time. ‘The stiffness of certain cells could be a way to make a diagnosis,’ Evers said. He defended his thesis on March 26th.
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T-cells more important in the fight against the COVID-19 virus than initially thought
A COVID-19 vaccine that specifically instructs the immune system to produce T-cells rather than antibodies is shown to provide good protection in a mouse model, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) researchers report in Nature Communications. According to them, the alternative vaccine may offer a…
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LUMC will administer first Dutch stem cell gene therapy to patients
Researchers and clinicians at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are about to begin a milestone clinical study. It will be the first time a stem cell gene therapy developed in the Netherlands is used in a clinic. The therapy will be used to treat children with SCID, a rare disorder where children…