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• Wild plants through the lens of a biologist News - 27 October 2025

  What started with an old Soviet camera and a darkroom in London grew into a lifelong passion. Developmental biologist Michael Richardson has been capturing nature - from wild coastal plants to microscopic details in the lab - since his childhood.

• Plants and planets News - 6 February 2025

  The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus botanicus on 7 February.

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  Ellen Cieraad Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  e.cieraad@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Unique ‘penis plant’ flowers at Hortus News - 22 October 2021

  Amorphophallus decus-silvae, or the ‘penis plant’ as it is known, has just flowered at the Hortus botanicus. It flowered for two days, and then the pollen, which the male flowers produced was collected. As far as the plant experts at the Hortus can tell, this was just the third time that this species…

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  Tressia Chikodza PhD candidate - external affiliation

  Faculty of Science

  t.chikodza@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Evolutionary change in protective plant odours News - 23 June 2021

  Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.

• Sticky insects: plants protected with biological glue News - 14 May 2024

  Drained leaves and plants stripped bare. Insects can completely destroy crops. Soon, these situations may be behind us, with the new pesticide developed by Leiden and Wageningen researchers. With their plant-based ‘insect glue’, insects are incapacitated.

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  Barbara Gravendeel Prefect/Professor Plants and Society

  Faculty of Science

  b.gravendeel@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | 06 10664277

• Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’ News - 10 March 2022

  For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of this spontaneous vegetation. Botanical artists reveal this beauty in an exhibition at Oude UB in Leiden.

• Giant penis plant is blooming at Hortus botanicus News - 14 July 2022

  The ‘Amorphophallus titanum’ at the Hortus botanicus Leiden is blooming. This Titan Arum, also known as the ‘giant penis plant’, last flowered in 2009.

• Leiden archaeologists uncover earliest evidence of plant food processing News - 7 January 2025

  A new study carried out by Leiden archaeologists Hadar Ahituv and Amanda Henry, together with international colleagues, reports the identification and analysis of 650 starch grains preserved on basalt percussive tools (anvils and hammerstones) found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These…

• Plant stress increases: New research with bacteria offers hope News - 4 March 2024

  Soil that is too wet, or too dry. Or with a lot or few nutrients. Due to climate change, the differences are becoming bigger, and plants must increasingly be able to adapt to survive. How do you make plants more stress-resistant? For this purpose, researchers from Leiden, along with other universities,…

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  Kiki Spaninks Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  k.spaninks@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274835

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  Kevin Bretscher PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  k.m.bretscher@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4384

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  Marieke Elfferich PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  m.elfferich@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5110

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  Sofia Fernandes Gomes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  s.i.fernandes.gomes@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5118

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  Peng Sun Guest PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  p.sun@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Peiyan Qin PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Science

  p.qin@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Martijn Bezemer Professor Ecology of Plant-Microbe-Insect Interactions

  Faculty of Science

  t.m.bezemer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5158

• Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants News - 4 April 2024

  Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…

• Plant-based party on campus: discover and enjoy during Meat and Dairy-Free Week Announcement - 25 February 2025

  Facility, Organisation

• Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week Announcement - 4 March 2024

  Facility

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  Jiaxin Zhang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Science

  j.z.zhang@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• What rare plants and animals can you find on campus? Join in the BioBlitz News - 21 May 2024

  Do you also love a city where nature can bloom, crawl and flutter freely and exuberantly? And do you fancy a challenge out in the fresh air? If so, grab your mobile and take part in the BioBlitz 'Higher Education is Flourishing' from 22 May.

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  Farzad Aslani Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  f.aslani@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Han van Konijnenburg Professor emeritus Prequatarnary paleobotany

  Faculty of Science

  j.h.a.van.konijnenburg-van.cittert@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Isabel Siles Asaff PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  m.i.siles.asaff@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Pascal Nuijten PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  p.nuijten@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4384

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  Frederic Lens Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

  f.p.lens@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xinya Pan PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Science

  x.pan@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Emily Strange Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  e.f.strange@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Jitske van Welsen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  j.van.welsen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tinde van Andel Professor History of botany and gardens

  t.r.van.andel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Plant cuttings fair Event - 11 April 2023

  Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt

• Plant cuttings fair Event - 13 June 2023

  Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt

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  Sandra Irmisch Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  s.irmisch@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Nienke Beets PhD student

  Faculty of Science

  n.beets@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275144

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  Paul Kessler Prefect / professor by special appointment of Botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia

  Faculty of Science

  p.j.a.kessler@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5235

• Plants & Pencils – Botanical drawing workshop Event - 8 April 2025

  Arts and culture

• Plant cuttings fair at the Hortus Event - 12 September 2023

  Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt

• Plant cuttings fair at the Hortus Event - 14 November 2023

  Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt

• This is the library you did not know you had been looking for News - 23 July 2024

  2,240 plant extracts from 1,299 different plant species of Dutch origin. That’s the collection of the Dutch Extract Library, which has recently been transferred to the Institute of Biology Leiden. To plant biologist and contact person for this library Pingtao Ding this is a true treasury. ‘To bring…

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  Salma Balazadeh Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

  s.balazadeh@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kees Libbenga Professor emeritus of General botany

  Faculty of Science

  k.r.libbenga@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275061

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  Bert van Duijn Professor of Plant electrophysiology

  Faculty of Science

  a.van.duijn@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274932

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  Roderick Bouman Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  r.w.bouman@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2180

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  Altay Temel Education and research staff member

  Faculty of Science

  a.temel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4833

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  Pingtao Ding Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  p.ding@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275306

• ASCL Seminar: Plotting human-plant futures in Uganda Event - 1 February 2024

  Lecture

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  Peter van Bodegom Professor of Environmental biology and Circular Horticultural Systems

  Faculty of Science

  p.m.van.bodegom@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7486