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How to make an old antibiotic a hundred times more potent
Nathaniel Martin, Professor of Biological chemistry, wondered what would happen if you take an antibiotic that has been known for 70 years and try to improve it with the latest tools of modern chemistry. Turns out it can become up to a hundred times more potent and prevent the growth of some drug-resistant…
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Nutrition and fasting for the brain: why the Keto diet shows promise
Autism, Alzheimer’s, and bipolar disorder: can the development of these mental health conditions be influenced by the ketogenic diet? Increasingly, research suggests it might. 'For those it helps, it can be life-changing,' says neuroscientist Eline Dekeyster.
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‘Pharmacogenetics will become part of patient care’
Does medicine make patients feel better or worse? We are getting better at predicting this from people’s DNA profiles, says Professor Jesse Swen. ‘It never fails to fascinate me how one DNA base pair can have such a huge effect on treatment with medication and the outcome.’
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Purple Friday (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Workshop Academic Writing (basic skills)
Study support
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Orientation meeting Honours College: Science & Society
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
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Honours College Science, Society and Self
Information session
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Today’s experimental quantum research at Leiden University: from the microscopic to the macroscopic
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Towards a Muslim Futurist Movement: On the Power of Imagining, Space Building, and Community
Lecture, LUCIS Meets | Masterclass
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Evaluation Metrics and Model Performance Workshop
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'ALICE': Understanding SLURM: Simplifying High-Performance Computing
Workshop
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What is the AI in Game AI?
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, seminar series
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Transfer Learning and Practical Applications Workshop
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Tensors Workshop
Workshop Series
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ASCL Seminar: Plotting human-plant futures in Uganda
Lecture
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop Series
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What's Next? - Alumni in Tech
Lecture
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Political Social Networks in Indonesia Workshop
Workshop
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Images as Data: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Data Loaders Workshop
Workshop Series
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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Single Linear Neuron Models and Training Loop Workshop
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Multi-Layer Models and Activation Functions Workshop
Workshop Series
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Dutch Bio Science Week
Event
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’
From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science as the common denominator. The university’s Data Science Research Programme (DSO) has proven so successful that after five years on a start-up grant it…
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community
Buurtlab 070 is a new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together on climate, sustainability and biodiversity solutions. What do they expect of the lab?
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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens
With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock, and our thoughts are with his wife and children, other family, and friends. Harold was at the heart of our institute, as a researcher, as a supervisor,…
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‘When I leave the lecture and students are still discussing, I know I did a good job’
‘It was the biggest bunch of flowers I’d ever seen,’ says Emily Strange about the moment she won the Leiden Teaching Prize 2022. The judge praised the conservation biologist for her passion, engaging personality, and the way she motivates her students. On the Dutch Day of the Teacher, we get to know…
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…
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André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship
André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-creation of an international multidisciplinary online learning environment around Frugal Innovation'. André is academic coordinator of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus…
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CML talents receive Stans Award 2024
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best student thesis, best PhD paper and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominated students and colleagues and this year’s jury Prof.dr.ing. Jan Willem Erisman and Prof.dr.ir Willie Peijnenburg made the final decision.
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The quest for the magic angle
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science still can't explain how something so magical can happen, but physicists use special equipment to reveal what is taking place under the surface.
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Information meeting Honours Governance and Global Affairs
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
Lecture
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Leiden Translation Talk 9 May: Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools
Lecture
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When Critical Thinking Goes Wrong: Civic Reasoning in a Polarised World
Lecture
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Museum Talk: The Future Museum: Digital Replicas, Virtual Reality and Storytelling for a New Audience
Lecture
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Quantum & Society Research Colloquium Series: 'Quantum for High-School Students and Teachers'
Lecture
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Leiden Translation Talk 24 May: Creativity in different translation modalities and its reception by readers
Lecture
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HI The Hague Student Experience at Liberation Festival The Hague
Festival
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Student Talk: Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet
Lecture
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SRS seminar series: Deep history of violence and security
Seminar series
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Information meeting Honours Governance and Global Affairs
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Information meeting Honours programme Governance and Global Affairs
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate