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The role of auxin in somatic embryogenesis
What is the role of auxin in the initiation and process of somatic embryogenesis?
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The House of Orange-Nassau and Colonial History
At the initiative and expense of His Royal Highness King Willem-Alexander, Leiden University will be conducting a study of the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history. The project will run from 2023 to 2026.
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About Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science is located at the Leiden Bio Science Park. It was founded more than two centuries ago and currently, more than 8000 people are working and studying at the eight institutes.
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Resampling Methodology for Longitudinal Data Analysis
How does the cluster bootstrap procedure in combination with various types of linear models perform in the analysis of longitudinal data, compared to other methods.
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Towards solving the missing heritability in pharmacogenomics
PhD defence
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Corry Donner on her retirement: 'I’ll definitely miss the intellectual stimulation, but what I want most now is to get out of my head.'
As Board Secretary, Corry Donner aims to be a ‘spider in the web’; someone who keeps a watchful eye on and brings together all the different perspectives of the institute’s board. Now she's left her carefully woven web at the university and transfer her tasks to her successor. Last September, we talked…
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New release: The Pied Piper Of Hamelin And Other Melodramas
Jed Wentz realized a unique concept: 19-th century melodramas for voice and piano.
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Towards a comprehensive understanding of (facilitating) teacher professional development
What are ‘missing links’ in research on teacher professional development trajectories? We focus on the role and development of teacher facilitators in designing and implementing (collaborative) professional development trajectories.
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Approved Excavation Projects
We are happy to announce that the following missions have been approved by the Ministry of Antiquities, pending final security confirmations:
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Teacher meeting on Physics research and education
On the evening of Tuesday January 31st, the physics institute organizes its triannual meeting for over seventy high school teachers. The program consists of lectures on developments in modern physics and the latest initiatives in the world of education.
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Past Events
Welcome to our event page! Here you can find all the past events of LUGO that have taken place online. Have you missed some of our events and want to watch it back? You are in the right place! Furthermore, we have included all the relevant information corresponding with the events. This can include…
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Imperial Legacies in Early-Modern South India. Dynastic Politics in the Vijayanagara Successor States
This research deals with the royal houses of the Vijayanagara Empire and four of its successor states: Ikkeri, Tanjavur (under both the Nayaka and Bhonsle rulers), Madurai, and Ramnad. This study is thus concerned with dynastic politics and imperial legacies in south India between the 14th and 18th…
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For whom
Would you like to learn more about a particular subject under the guidance of enthusiastic academics? Or would you like to take a look at a study you are considering and experience what it is like to attend the university?
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Rule Reversal Revisited: Synchrony and diachrony of tone and prosodic structure in the Franconian dialect of Arzbach
This dissertation provides crucial but as yet missing empirical data on the tone accent opposition in the so-called
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Focus and ellipsis
This project aims at investigating the syntactic role of focus in ellipsis across languages.
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Information for parents/guardians
Participation in the Pre-University College Leiden involves a number of practical matters. For instance, a contribution to costs is requested and it is important that participants can be in Leiden on Monday afternoons.
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Algorithm for Structural Variant Detection
Structural variants (SVs) are the hidden architecture of the human genome, and are critical for us to understand diseases, evolution, and so on.
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Conclusion & Certificate
If you pass a PRE-Class and do not miss any lectures, you will be awarded a certificate. This certificate states how many study load hours you earned with the PRE-Class.
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Knowledge from now
Osteoarchaeologists help forensic scientists solve crimes. They also study bone material from the Second World War in order to identify victims.
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Haunted Europe. Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media
Haunted Europe offers a comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland…
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Newsletter
Through our quarterly newsletter, we keep you informed on all honours programmes at Leiden University. Our newsletter is also available in English. Sign up now via the link below!
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LUGO Packaging Event
Product packaging is essential. It prolongs shelf-live and highly influences purchasing decisions. However, it’s also a big source of waste, especially single-use plastic. Have you ever felt conflicted choosing a product due to the material it’s packaged in? Or opted for a different product due to its…
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Applied Psychometric and Sociometric Modeling
This research team is concerned with the measurement and modelling of behaviour, cognition, and unobserved traits (e.g., latent variables, missing data). Central aims include the distillation of a complex set of features into lower-dimensional representations (e.g., factor analysis, IRT), determining…
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The underwater Hobbit – a new shrimp species
‘In a hole under water there lived a hobbit’: a new species of shrimp named after Bilbo Baggings. Biology student Werner de Gier described this newly discovered species during his bachelor internship at Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
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Dutch researchers uncover hidden supermassive black hole
An international team of astronomers led by Violeta Gámez Rosas (Leiden University) has observed a supermassive black hole hidden in a ring of dust. This discovery fits the idea that the so-called active centers of galaxies are much more similar than observations show, because the viewing angle from…
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The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Law & Governance in a World of Multilevel Jurisdictions
Is the legitimacy of law and governance of multilevel jurisdictions diminishing? What is the significance of (diminishing) legitimacy for the effectiveness of law? These kinds of questions about the legitimacy of the supranational formation of law, its application, and the policy and governance based…
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About the programme
In the South and Southeast Asian Studies programme you gain a strong foundation in the academic, language and critical thinking skills essential to understanding the history, culture and modern context of this dynamic, fast-growing region.
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Luuk van Middelaar speaks at Copenhagen conference on “EU Constitutional Imagination”
On 1-2 November, Professor Luuk van Middelaar spoke at the Academic Conference “EU Constitutional Imagination: Between ideology and utopia” at the University of Copenhagen.
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Lecture Adam Zamoyski - What were the Napoleonic Wars really about?
On 27 september historian Adam Zamoyski held a captivating lecture on his new book Napoleon: the Man behind the Myth. During this lecture, which was an initiative by Polen in Beeld and the Central and Eastern European Studies Center, Zamoyski answered the question: ‘what were the Napoleonic Wars really…
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The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Handling missing data, selection bias and measurement error in observational studies
PhD defence
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Frequently Asked Questions
On this page we have listed the most frequently asked questions about the Pre-University Classes for you. Is your question not listed? Then please send us an e-mail!
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Leiden student city
Leiden is a lively university city that’s brimming with history and boasts a student culture that’s tangible just about everywhere. Read on to discover what Leiden has to offer and get a foretaste of what you can expect.
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Methodological obstacles in causal inference: confounding, missing data, and measurement error
PhD defence
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The scholarly self: character, habit, and virtue in the humanities, 1860-1930
Why did 'character', 'habit', and 'virtue' serve as key terms in late 19th and early 20th-century scholarly correspondences, biographies, and obituaries? Why did scholars around 1900 display so much interest in the working habits and character traits of what they called the 'scholarly self'?
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Healthy University @Home
What can we do to ensure we study and work at home in a healthy and responsible way? Leiden Healthy University, part of the international healthy universities network, has put together some tips and tools to help you.
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Exploring novel regulators and enzymes in salicylic acid-mediated plant defense
Salicylic acid (SA) is a plant hormone, which is involved in the defense responses to pathogens and to abiotic stress, and in the regulation of plant growth and development.
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The Capacity to Innovate: Cluster Policy and Management in the Biotechnology Sector
In this book, Sarah Giest, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, provides insight into the collaborative and absorptive capacities needed to provide public support to local innovation through cluster organizations.
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Editorial comments
The following editorial comments were recently published in the Common Market Law Review.
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Studying dark matter using weak gravitational lensing : from galaxies to the cosmic web
Of all the mass in our Universe, 80% is thought to consist of a hypothetical and invisible substance called dark matter (DM).
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Expanding the coverage of ecosystem services in life cycle assessment: an interdisciplinary venture
To contribute to the body of knowledge aiming at a better coverage of ecosystem service assessment in LCA studies, this thesis dives into the challenges of incorporating existing ecosystem service methods within the impact assessment phase of the conventional LCA framework.
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Tapping into Semantic Recovery
On May 31st, Bobby Ruijgrok succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Bobby on this great result.
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‘For good measure’: data gaps in a big data world
Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels, both Assistant Professors at Leiden University, researched the quality and coverage of the data being collected for policiymakers to be used, specifically pertaining to minority groups.
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Sweat Room
Have you not yet had the chance to sign your signature on the walls of the Sweat Room? Or would you like to pay a digital visit to the famous room?
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The Chilean Model of Pension Reform as a Lopsided Exportschlager
In this paper, the authors outline how the UK and USA adopt the Chilean pension model without proper attribution, potentially distorting the lessons.
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Grave Reminders
Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory
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High throughput microscopy of mechanism-based reporters in druginduced liver injury
Promotor: B. van de Water
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AI for Healthcare Robotics
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Hadassah Drukarch from eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, recently published the book ‘AI for Healthcare Robotics’, published by CRC Press from Taylor and Francis Group in their AI for Everything Series.