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424 search results for “chronic plant” in the Student website

• Studying with a chronic illness Studying with a disability

  A chronic illness is a long-term and persistent health condition that can impact your learning at Leiden University.

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  Antoinette van Laarhoven Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.vanlaarhoven@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276634

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  Jessy Terpstra Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.a.terpstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Prepared for pain? The impact of the nocebo effect on people with chronic pain News - 9 September 2024

  People who have negative expectations about a treatment actually experience more pain. Merve Karacaoglu discovered in her PhD research that anxious and pessimistic individuals are particularly susceptible to this nocebo effect. However, this sensitivity comes with a silver lining.

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  Veronique de Gucht Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  degucht@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273863

• Managing chronic pain? ‘With a data driven approach you can tailor treatment to the individual’ News - 5 September 2025

  Exercising less, skipping parties and struggling at work: the expectation of chronic pain and itching can lead to avoidance behaviour. But this is by no means the case for everyone with chronic pain, as PhD candidate Gita Nadinda discovered. What does this mean for healthcare?

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  Ellen Cieraad Guest researcher

  Faculty of Science

  e.cieraad@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 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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  Henriët van Middendorp Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  h.vanmiddendorp@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276333

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  Aminata Bicego Postdoc / Marie Curie fellow

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.bicego@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wei Ping Young PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Sofie Rasmussen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  a.s.b.rasmussen@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Barbara Gravendeel Associate professor guest

  Faculty of Science

  b.gravendeel@hortus.leidenuniv.nl |

• 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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  Tim Koppert Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.y.koppert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Isabelle Kaiko Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  i.r.kaiko@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kiki Spaninks Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

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

• 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.

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  Martijn Bezemer Professor

  Faculty of Science

  t.m.bezemer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275158

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  Sylvia van Beugen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.van.beugen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274047

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  Katja Cardol Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.k.cardol@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275697

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  Sofia Gomes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  s.i.gomes@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275118

• 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.

• How e-coaching helps people with chronic kidney disease to live more healthily News - 9 March 2023

  An e-coaching programme helps people with chronic kidney disease, particularly in areas that patients themselves want to work on. ‘A healthy lifestyle is important for patients with kidney disease: it can slow down the loss of kidney function and there will be fewer complications,’ Katja Cardol explains…

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  Marieke Elfferich PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  m.elfferich@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275110

• Studying and being chronically ill: how do you manage that? | Leiden University News - 13 July 2021

  Third-year cultural anthropology student Claire van Helder (24) says she can't be kept still. She has her own blog, is active on Instagram and recently started a YouTube channel. She is a member of the student party LVS, elected to the faculty council and will become the president of WDO in September.…

• 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.

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  Jos Brosschot Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  brosschot@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kevin Bretscher PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  k.m.bretscher@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274384

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  Peiyan Qin PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Science

  p.qin@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Peng Sun Guest PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  p.sun@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 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.

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  Frederic Lens Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

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

• 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…

• 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.

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  Farzad Aslani Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  f.aslani@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xinya Pan PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Science

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

• 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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  Han van Konijnenburg Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Science

  j.h.a.van.konijnenburg-van.cittert@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mariana Gliesch Silva Lecturer

  Faculty of Science

  m.gliesch.silva@cml.leidenuniv.nl |

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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

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  Emily Strange Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  e.f.strange@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Pascal Nuijten

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  Sandra Irmisch Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

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

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  Renske Onstein Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

  r.e.onstein@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Friedo Dekker Professor

  Faculty of Medicine

  f.w.dekker@lumc.nl | 071 5265230

• 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…

• Switch-It-Up Wednesday: choose plant-based and sustainable in our cafés Announcement - 23 March 2026

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

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  Tinde van Andel Professor

  Faculty of Science

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