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May 2012 – Prof. Timothy Birkhead visited Leiden for the 2012 Niko Tinbergen lecture
Prof. Timothy Birkhead from the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, England visited Leiden and the IBL for the 2012 Niko Tinbergen lecture. During his lecture he spoke about the study of animal behaviour addressing paradigms and progress with historical perspectives, examples from his own work on mate choice and sexual selection in birds, and some viewpoints about the future.
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May 2012 - Former IBL-employee Gerrit de Leeuw Knighted
Former IBL-employee Gerrit de Leeuw received the honor of becoming a “Knight” in the Order of Orange-Nassau (Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau) for his life-time achievements as an employee and volunteer.
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March 2012 - IBL scientific director Carel ten Cate received an Open Competition NWO Grant
IBL-scientific director Carel ten Cate received an Open Competition NWO Grant in the Humanites to study the evolution of language by comparing birds with humans together with main applicant Claartje Levelt (LUCL – LIBC) and Jelle Zuidema (ILLC, UVA).
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February 2012 - NWO funds a flexibele high-throughput genotyping line
A consortium of researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), and the Leiden University Medical centre (LUMC) received an Investment Subsidy NWO Medium grant.
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February 2012 - Symposium: Roadside Ecology of Bird Song
The symposium will be held on the occasion of Wouter Halfwerk’s dissertation defense on the 1st of March 2012.
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February 2012 - Proefstuderen IBL attracted many potential students
Over fifty highschool students visited the IBL on Friday the 10th to check out whether they liked Biology and whether they liked Leiden for their study start of next year.
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January 2012 - Prof. dr. Rob Verpoorte received an Honorary Doctorate at Uppsala University
On Friday the 27th, Prof. dr. Rob Verpoorte from the Natural Products Laboratory of the IBL received an Honorary Doctorate at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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January 2012 - Maurijn van der Zee wins teaching award 2011
Evolutionary Biologist Maurijn van der Zee was elected Teacher of the Year 2011 by the students of the Science Faculty. In a short period of time, Dr. Van der Zee became a significant teacher in Evolutionary Biosciences.
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January 2012 - Wouter Halfwerk receives a Rubicon grant
Behavioural biologist Wouter Halfwerk has been awarded a 2-year outgoing Rubicon-grant from NWO. He will be working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with bats and frogs to understand the evolution of multimodal communication.
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November 2011 - New funding for advanced microscopy using gold nanorods
A consortium of researchers from the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), and the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) received a FOM program grant to develop a novel way of studying individual proteins inside a cell using gold nanorods.
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