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Complexity Models to Prevent Financial Crashes
The financial system needs complexity theory to predict economic crises like the 2008 meltdown. An international team of scientists, including Leiden physicist Diego Garlaschelli, state this in a paper published in Science on February 19th.
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Why COVID-19 caused a pandemic (whereas other coronaviruses did not)
Epithelial cells play a crucial role in the lungs. PhD student Ying Wang researched the effects of cigarette smoke and viruses such as COVID-19 on these epithelial cells. ‘We hope to reduce the risk of pandemics in the future.’
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Sign up as a speaker at the ILS Lunch Seminars!
ILS organizes a new lunch seminar series where all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what researchers from other research programs and institutes are working on. During a seminar two or three speakers will present their research.…
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First ILS-seminar of the academic year
On Thursday 21 September the first monthly ILS lunch of the academic year took place. Prof. Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, from the Department for Criminal Law and Criminology, presented her research on “The Exercise of EU Criminalisation Powers after Lisbon”, showing an insight in the motives behind the harmonization…
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4th Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture – Constitutions and Ethnography by Prof. Scheppele
On Friday January 13 between 13.00 - 15.00 (room C 1.04 of the Old Observatory) there will be another Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture, entitled 'Constitutional Ethnography, Counter-Constitutions, and the Study of Form, Sediment and Trajectory'.
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Upcoming ILS Lunch Seminar: core rights, data and peace agreements
During this lunch seminar series all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what researchers from other research programs and institutes are working on. During a seminar two or three speakers will present their research.
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Last ILS Lunch Seminar before summer!
During this lunch seminar series all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what researchers from other research programs and institutes are working on. During a seminar two or three speakers will present their research.
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Chemical Biology Lecture: Functional supramolecular systems and materials
Lecture
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Remnants of the Semitic case system in Old Aramaic
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Leiden Wall Poems
Learn all about the writing systems used in the famous wall poems of the city of Leiden.
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Asia Beyond Boundaries
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a major multidisciplinary research project which aims to re-vision the history of Asia in one of its most significant periods. The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and…
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MARBLES - Marine Biodiversity as Sustainable Resource of Disease-Suppressive Microbes and Bioprotectants for Aquaculture and Crop Diseases
To explore the potential of marine microorganisms as producers of novel antimicrobial agents and as bioprotectants in aqua- and agriculture, using an integrative, ecology-based strategy for bioprospecting.
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Just Future
Which key factors contribute to effective land justice pathways for the protection of people’s land rights and prevention of conflict?
- Guest lecture: The United Nations human rights treaty body system
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Fast vaccine design and development based on correlates of protection (COPs) Influenza as a trendsetter
New and reemerging infectious diseases call for innovative and efficient control strategies of which fast vaccine design and development represent an important element.
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‘Food is the elephant in the room for human water use’
From treatment plants to hot showers, emissions from water use in the U.S. are equal to 50 million cars driving around for a year. In The Washington Post, staff writer Tik Root consults different experts to learn about ways to reduce our water consumption. He also speaks with Leiden environmental scientist…
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Advanced echocardiographic imaging in valvular and systemic diseases
PhD defence
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Systemic Treatment in Malignant Mesothelioma: Treat it or Leave it
PhD defence
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Happy ILS Lunching 2017! 30 January with Professor Joanne van der Leun
The first ILS Lunch Seminar of 2017 will take place on Monday 30 January. During this lunch seminar series all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what researchers from other research programs and institutes are working on. During…
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Multifaceted role of the complement system in health and disease
PhD defence
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Imaging the (un)imaginable of the Barrier Immune System
PhD defence
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Clinical aspects and pathophysiological mechanisms of (systemic) right ventricular failure
PhD defence
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Systemic Sclerosis: can we identify patients at risk?
PhD defence
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Novel regenerative therapies for the adaptive immune system
PhD defence
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Latest hardware for computer research on medical imaging
The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…
- Teacher of the Year 2017 throws students in at the deep end with supervision
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Conference ‘The Dutch Constitution Beyond 200’
On 11 November 2016, The Hague Law Labs and the department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, in collaboration with the Italian Association for European and Comparative Law, will organise ‘The Dutch Constitution Beyond 200: tradition and innovation in a multilevel legal order'.
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and the Transcendental: Husserlian Phenomenology in Intersubjective Systems Theory"
Lecture
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researchers: The development of National Researcher Categorization Systems in Latin America
Seminar
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Advanced MRI in aortic pathology and systemic interactions
PhD defence
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Exploring the Frontiers of International Law
The international legal order is in a process of transformation. But how transforms globalization the international legal order? This research programme provides a clearer framework to analyze this..
- Daring questions in Islam
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Van Marum Colloquium: CO2 Electrolysis Systems for Chemical and Food Production
Lecture
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Multimodality imaging in patients with valvular heart disease and systemic diseases
PhD defence
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Vera van Noort appointed “Van der Klaauw professor”
Vera van Noort, professor in Computational Systems Biology at the KU Leuven (Belgium), is appointed holder of the rotating chair “Van der Klaauw Professor” for the year 2015-2016 at the Institute of Biology. Holders of the chair bring inspiring research and teaching in theoretical biology to the University.…
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Amanda Foks receives Dekker grant from Dutch Hartstichting
Pharmacologist Amanda Foks is one of the ten talented scientists who received a Dekker grant from the Hartstichting. She receives €427,000 to find a way to rejuvenate immune cells to prevent infarcts. Foks was nominated as Discoverer of the Year in 2016.
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Digitalisation of civil justice systems in Europe and access to justice
Lecture
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Landscape change, community wellbeing and small island contexts
How has landscape and land use changed in these two case studies since independence? What has caused these changes, whether anthropogenic or natural? How do local communities in the areas of study perceive these changes? How can community knowledge be integrated with mapping tools (GIS) to contribute…
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Visualization of the maternal immune system at the maternal-fetal interface
PhD defence
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Text-mining real-world data to evaluate systemic anti-cancer therapy
PhD defence
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On the road to better care for patients with systemic sclerosis
PhD defence
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Systems biology as a compass to understand cancer-immune interactions in humans
PhD defence
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Treatment optimisation and pharmacogenetics of systemic and intraperitoneal chemotherapy in colorectal cancer
PhD defence
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VENI award for Anke Ramakers and Hilde Wermink
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to two researchers from the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Anke Ramakers and Hilde Wermink. This award offers these criminologists the opportunity to develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: ‘You can really get a closer look at the subject matter’
Are you interested in ancient Egypt, the rich cultural heritage of Mesopotamia or bliblical Hebrew and Aramaic? Students of all faculties can follow electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies without prior knowledge or special entry requirements. Archaeology student Annely Arends talks about her expe…
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Melanie Fink at round-table discussion on the foreign policy role of EU home affairs agencies
On 26 April 2017, Melanie Fink, PhD candidate at Leiden University and the University of Vienna, participated in a round-table discussion on ‘The “agencification” of EU foreign and defence policy: what role for the EU home affairs agencies abroad?’
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Carrot or stick: which is better motivation to exercise more?
Free cinema tickets or a step tracker paid for by your health insurance. Some insurers offer rewards to promote healthy behaviour. But does the threat of losing something like a deposit work better? And what do patients think? This is what PhD candidate David de Buisonjé researched.
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2012 Science4Arts grant for Maarten Jansen
On January 12 the Steering Committee Science4Arts awarded the application of Prof.dr. Maarten Jansen entitled:
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Insight in the role of lipids and other systemic factors in hand and knee osteoarthritis
PhD defence
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop