26 search results for “metabolism” in the Staff website
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What makes us ill?
Genes predict whether you have a propensity for an illness but environmental factors often have the last word: nutrition, air pollution, lifestyle, stress. The exposome as both culprit and chance. Large-scale research is being carried out into this at Leiden. Thomas Hankemeier, Professor of Analytical…
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Lennart Schada von BorzyskowskiScience
l.schada.von.borzyskowski@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4561
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Hans AertsScience
j.m.f.g.aerts@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4213
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Leonie van SteijnScience
l.van.steijn@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Miranda van EckScience
eck_m@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6238
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Sandra IrmischScience
s.irmisch@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tomer FishmanScience
t.fishman@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Robert VerpoorteScience
verpoort@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4528
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Visualization of Vitamin A Metabolism
PhD Defence
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Chao DuScience
c.du@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5306
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series | Metabolic trajectories before the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Insights from modeling metabolism and amoeboid cell motility in the immune system
PhD Defence
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‘Sleep should play a greater role in lifestyle research’
Sleep disorders have a significant influence on our physical and emotional health. Sleep should therefore receive more attention within lifestyle medicine, says Professor Gert Jan Lammers. He will give his inaugural lecture on Friday 20 May entitled: ‘Getting to sleep’.
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Microcoil MRI of Plants and Algae at Ultra-High Field: An exploration of metabolic imaging
PhD Defence
- EUniWell Open Lecture Series
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Phenomix Field Lab offers promising healthcare solutions
In the Phenomix Medical Delta Field Lab, which was officially opened on Thursday 9 July, scientists, healthcare institutions and businesses work together to develop innovative applications in the field of metabolomics. This research field makes it possible to determine which drugs will be effective…
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Scientists find strong evidence that wasting syndrome is the same for all organisms
An interdisciplinary team of Leiden researchers has discovered that wasting syndrome, a severe byproduct of tuberculosis, is the same for all humans and animals studied. The discovery offers new opportunities to investigate the still insufficiently understood condition. The scientists also developed…
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Why plants in wetlands are highly productive
Environmental scientists in Leiden have found that the so-called leaf economics spectrum for plants can not only be applied to terrestrial ecosystems, such as forests and grasslands, but also to wetlands. Furthermore, they showed that wetland plants generally have a fast-return strategy, meaning they…
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300 million euros for new international stem cell consortium
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Danstem Institute from the University of Copenhagen and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne have received 300m euros from the Novo Nordisk foundation. The aim of this new international consortium is to bring stem-cell based therapies…
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This Week's Discoveries | 11 February 2020
Lecture
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Three LUF grants for talented Leiden Science researchers
Fighting against cancer, antibiotic resistance and disposable plastics: Ahmed Ali, Fredj Ben Bdira, and Valerio Barbarossa receive a LUF grant for their innovative and socially relevant research. These grants for academic talent are often an important step towards grants by NWO and other grant insti…
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Predicting and preventing serious COVID-19 symptoms
Scientists in Leiden are looking for signals in blood samples to predict whether patients will develop serious COVID-19 symptoms or not. Based on that knowledge, they will be able to propose targeted therapies to prevent serious symptoms. They hope to come up with the first results within the week.
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‘Like Don Quichot, you have to keep dreaming’
Having a bachelor, master and Ph.D in chemistry, Elena Sánchez López shifted to a more biological research for her postdoc. All of her studies she did at the University of Alcala, in Spain. Way back in medieval times, this city was the place of birth of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the world famous…
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Marine bacteria hold the key to a sustainable future
Lecture, This Week's Discoveries
- IBL Symposium 2022
- Van Leeuwenhoek Lectures on BioScience