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May 2013 - Predicting birdsong from space
A new study published online in Evolutionary Applications reports on a remarkable tool to use remote-sensing data to predict animal behaviour (birdsong), across vast spatial scales.
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May 2013 - Prof. Steven Pinker gave the Niko Tinbergen lecture 2013
Many students, employees, alumni and interested people in general attended the Niko Tinbergenlezing on the 3rd of this month. The yearly lecture in honor of Nobel laureate and ethologist Niko Tinbergen was given by Prof. Steven Pinker of Harvard University.
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March 2013 - More than 100x antibiotics in the classroom
More than 100 teaching packages of our outreach project Antibiotica Gezocht! (Wanted: Antibiotics!), from the Molecular Biotechnology group, have found their way to Dutch and also some Belgian schools. Some 65 secondary schools have ordered one or more practical packages since last September.
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March 2013 - Zebrafish models for human immune diseases
In two recent papers, published in Disease Models and Mechanisms and in The Journal of Immunology, IBL researchers report on new zebrafish models for studying human infectious diseases and immune disorders.
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February 2013 - In Memoriam Dr. Frans Witte
On the 12th of February, our colleague Frans Witte died suddenly after a long battle against the cancer that had troubled him for many years. Frans had been a staff member of Leiden Biology since 1977.
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January 2013 - Strategy meeting IBL
IBL scientific staff members came together in Noordwijkerhout to talk about the strengths and structure of the institute, research strategies and teaching plans for the coming years.
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January 2013 – Wouter Halfwerk received prize for the best thesis of the Science Faculty 2012
Wouter received the C.J. Kok prize for his study on: ‘Tango to traffic, a field study into consequences of noisy urban conditions for acoustic courtship interactions in birds’.
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December 2012 - Molecular Biotechnology moves to the Sylvius laboratories
The research group Molecular Biotechnology (MBT) has moved in the second week of December to the fourth floor of the Sylvius laboratories. Through the move of the group of Professor Gilles van Wezel the Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology groups of Leiden University will be united in a unilocation, which will strongly enhance interaction and facilities.
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December 2012 – Journal about Dune Research (Holland’s Duinen) celebrates its 40th birthday
The journal Holland’s Duinen (in Dutch) started as a cooperation between Leiden University and the water company (Dunea) that manages the dunes north and south of The Hague. Fourty years ago the first issue of Meijendel Mededelingen saw the light.
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November 2012 – IBL- student Annebelle Kok won the 2012-LISF award
The LISF award is a prize for the best MSc-report on a project abroad funded by the Leiden University Fund (LUF). Annebelle Kok reported about her fieldwork in Malaysian Borneo and the results of her study on growth and development in Opisthostoma snails at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
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