This doctoral thesis is an effort to understand how lipid phase-separation induced by diacylglycerol analogues in lipid-based nanoparticles affects their in vivo behavior, leading to specific nanoparticle-protein communications and selective cell targeting.

Promotor: B. van de Water

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting millions of people world-wide.

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

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How are links between macro-invertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning influenced by anthropogenic pressures?

There are several committees within the IBL that are crucial for organizing and coordinating research, education and finances. Among the lesser-known of these committees is the IBL Institute Council (IC or Instituutsraad, IR). The purpose of the IC is to serve as a link between IBL members and management…

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In photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), a biologically active compound is caged by a light-cleavable protecting group.

Promotores: Prof. Dr. Th.J.C. van Berkel, Prof. Dr. M. van Eck

The objective is to develop in vitro antigen degradation assays in order to mimic the fate of the antigen in vivo.

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The specialisation enables you to understand the fundamentals of management and entrepreneurship alongside high quality Biology research.

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Organisation Institute of Biology Leiden

The PR-Committee aims at developing an optimal image of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) among future and current students, teachers of biology at high schools, academics outside and within the institute, journalists, interested laymen, Bioscience industrial parties and Leiden citizens.

Disseminating to the future generation of researchers the multidisciplinary working practices, expertise and scientific view that has been developed in research within the Plant BioDynamics Lab over the past years is an important objective in our collaborative efforts. The research papers of PBDL bring…

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The Green algae Chara as model system for intra and inter cellular transport processes.

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Exploiting metabolic vulnerabilities to identify anticancer compounds in zebrafish synthetic lethality screens.

Plants, algae and cyanobacteria have the amazing capacity to perform delicate photophysical and photochemical processes of light capture, excitation transfer, charge separation and catalysis in fluctuating living environments. As a consequence, photosynthetic proteins and membranes form dynamic architectures.…

Research projects for students of the University of Leiden and other Dutch Universities are often available at the MacBio group. The research lines are also described in the Research section. For details of specific projects contact the supervisor (Ubbink, Dame, Boyle, Jeuken or Wentink).

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Can we develop new enzymes and cell factories to upgrade current enzyme cocktails towards complete degradation of biomass?

Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria that have a complex multicellular life cycle and are well known for their ability to produce a wide range of bioactive natural products (NPs).

Worldwide resurgence of pertussis necessitates the need for improvement of pertussis vaccines and vaccination strategies.

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique used to visualize the inside of cells and to study specific protein complexes. Within this thesis, I describe the use of various cryo-EM techniques to gain insight into the structural changes of the human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, as it…

GitLab is a single application for the entire software development lifecycle. We use the Leiden University gitlab services

Our Division has created and maintains the Visualisation Core Facilities of the LACDR. This is a multi-user facility offering basic and advanced microscopic techniques to scientists of the LACDR.

The Joan van der Waals colloquium is an ongoing bi-weekly lecture series.

With a self-converted red camper van, biologists and twin brothers Kevin and Marvin Groen go on a nature adventure in Eastern Europe. Together, they search for wild animals, beautiful nature and places to sport. From a long search for a bear in the Slovakian wilderness to the discovery that pelicans…

The Organising Committee and the Scientific Committee consist of the following people:

Connect theory and practice of teaching through the application of your academic knowledge about Biology to issues of classroom practice.

Biology consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System (EC) points and includes courses and electives (30 - 60 EC) and and one or more research projects (60 - 90 EC).

In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.