2,339 search results for “this week s discoveries” in the Public website
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Activity-based protein profiling for drug discovery
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP, also termed chemical proteomics), is one of the pillars of chemical biology, and at LED3 we have taken it to the next level. ABPP allows the assessment of protein function in live cells and tissues, which means that the activity of a complete protein family can…
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Proteins in harmony: Tuning selectivity in early drug discovery
This thesis describes the importance of being able to control the selectivity of potential drug candidates.
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Harnessing zebrafish xenograft models for ocular melanoma treatment discovery
The aim of this thesis was to develop novel treatment strategies for different types of eye melanoma utilizing zebrafish models. We first establish orthotopic and ectopic xenograft models for uveal and conjunctival melanoma by engraftment of the immortalized cells derived from these tumors into zebrafish…
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Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining from patient experience repositories
This project develops a scientific method to extract clinically relevant new information from patient forum websites that discuss patient experiences concerning e.g. medication, nutrition, co-morbidities, genetic factors etc.
- Open Science Week - at the Social and Behavioural Sciences Faculty
- Open Science Week - at the Governance and Global Affairs Faculty
- Week 4: 28 January–3 February
- Week 6: 10-16 February 2019
- Week 1: 8–14 January
- Week 6: 11–17 February
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Causal Discovery from High-Dimensional Data in the Large-Sample Limit
Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets
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SAVE THE DATE: Open Science Week 2024
Festival
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Discovery of novel Antibiotics from Actinomycetes by Integrated Metabolomics & Genomics Approaches
Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: Y.H. Choi
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Evani Lachmansingh
Science
e.t.lachmansingh@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Week 5: 3–10 February
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Systems microscopy-based drug target discovery in pathogen-meidated inflammatory respons signalling
Establishing human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) CRISPR-Cas9-based fluorescent reporter cell lines for NF-kB signalling. We will use this to enable studying the dynamic activation and downstream signalling of Toll-like receptor and cytokine signalling in iPSC-derived differentiated cells in a…
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Mortality and HyperImage: Visual analytics techniques for biomarker discovery in massive 3D-omics datasets
Over the past decade, several novel types of spatially resolved
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resources for Iberian empires: ecology and globalization in the age of discovery
An interdisciplinary and innovative research group combining History, underwater archaeology, GIS and wood provenancing methods.
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Afrooz Kaviani Johnson
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.kaviani.johnson@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Lies Punselie
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
e.c.c.punselie@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Week 2: 14–20 January
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Genomics driven metabolomics novel strategies for the discovery and identification of secondary metabolites
Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: R.J. Vreeken
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data into knowledge for intelligent decision-making in early drug discovery
Promotor: A.P.IJzerman Co-promotor: A. Bender
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Knowledge discovery from patient forums: gaining novel medical insights from patient experiences
Patients share valuable advice and experiences with their peers in online patient discussion groups.
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Introduction week
If you are about to embark on a master’s in Leiden and the city and university are completely new to you, you should seriously consider participating an introduction week.
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This week the National Antibiotic Development Platform, NADP, was officially launched via a meeting in Utrecht.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the major threats to human health. This week the National Antibiotic Development Platform, NADP, was officially launched via a meeting in Utrecht, with many of the stakeholders in the field present.
- Week 5: 2–8 February, 2020
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Introduction week
Will you be studying in Leiden University in The Hague? If so, join in the HOP introduction week and get acquainted with the city and its student life.
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Introduction weeks
Do you want to get your stay in Leiden or The Hague off to the best-possible start? If so, you cannot afford to miss Leiden University’s introduction weeks for international students. In addition to having lots of fun, you’ll make new friendships and start getting to know the University and the city…
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Introduction week
If you are about to embark on a master’s at Leiden University in The Hague and both the city and the University are new to you, consider participating in The HOP. This introduction week has been specially designed to help new students get acquainted with the city and its student life.
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Introduction Week
Do you want to get your stay in Leiden off to the best possible start? Then you cannot afford to miss OWL, Leiden University’s introduction week for international students. In addition to having lots of fun, you’ll make new friendships and start getting to know the University and the city.
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Discovery and development of inhibitors selective for human constitutive proteasome and immunoproteasome active sites
This thesis describes the design and development of subunit‐selective inhibitors of particular catalytically active subunits of human constitutive proteasomes and immunoproteasomes.
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Discovery and exploitation of the transcriptional regulatory system of pectinases in Aspergillus niger
Pectin is a plant cell wall polysaccharide made of mainly D-galacturonic acid (GA) subunits. The potency of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger to naturally secrete high amounts of pectinases to degrade pectin has been utilized for the industrial production of pectinases.
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Image-based phenotypic screening for breast cancer metastasis drug target discovery
The main aim of this thesis was to unravel the signaling and regulatory networks that drive tumor cell migration during breast cancer metastasis.
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of data: connecting large datasets with machine learning in a drug discovery envirionment
This thesis focuses on data found in the field of computational drug discovery. New insight can be obtained by applying machine learning in various ways and in a variety of domains. Two studies delved into the application of proteochemometrics (PCM), a machine learning technique that can be used to…
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SAVE THE DATE: Open Science Week - at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Festival
- Week 3: 20-27 January 2019
- Introduction Week
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Discovery of a NAPE-PLD inhibitor that modulates emotional behavior in mice, Nat. Chem. Biol. 2020
N-acylethanolamines (NAEs), which include the endocannabinoid anandamide, represent an important family of signaling lipids in the brain. The lack of chemical probes that modulate NAE biosynthesis in living systems hamper the understanding of the biological role of these lipids.
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PROTEOMINING: a novel proteomics-based pipeline for drug and enzyme discovery in filamentous actinomycetes
Can a new proteomics workflow be developed to link genes and gene clusters to bioactive molecules, identify novel compounds and enhance the production in the Streptomyces lividans enzyme?
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Kinetics for Drug Discovery: a Case for the Adenosine A3 receptor
Supervisor: Lizi Xia
- Week 2: 14-20 January 2018
- Week 4: 25 January–1 February
- Week 3: 21-27 January 2018
- Week 2: 15-21 January 2017
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Leiden University Academy Week
Study information
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Silkscreening (every other week)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Hans Aerts
Science
j.m.f.g.aerts@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4771
- Week 7-8: 19-28 February 2017
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Intro Week | Exchange Programme
The LUC Intro Week 2024 will take place from Monday August 19th through Friday August 23rd. The introduction week is your way to settle into LUC!