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July 2011 - “Kees Bakker” prize 2010 for Renate Helwerda
On the 4th of Juli 2011, Renate Helwerda received the annual prize for the best BSc-student in the Evolutionary Biosciences from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fonds”.
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June 2011 - Understanding the Bicyclus anynana genome
An international group of evolutionary biologists gathered on the 23rd of June for a morning symposium and an afternoon discussion at the event of the thesis defense of Arjèn van ‘t Hof. Five butterfly experts, specialized in Lepidoptera evolution and genetics, presented a selection of their work in the large lecture hall of the Sylvius building.
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June 2011 - Team Leiden reaches the finals for the “Academische Jaarprijs”!
Researchers from Leiden University have reached the finals in a prestigious competition organized by The Dutch institution "Academische Jaarprijs" which aims to connect academic research and scientific ideas to the general public. The three finalists will present their ideas on Dutch TV, and compete to win a prize of 100.000 euro to realize their plans.
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May 2011 - Yeasterday 2011
On the 20th of May, the Yeasterday annual meeting of Dutch and Belgian yeast research groups was organized by Dr. Paul van Heusden of the Institute of Biology of Leiden University.
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April 2011 - Researchers confirm West and Central African lion is different from other lions
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and the Leiden Institute of Biology have recently published the findings of their genetic research on lions, which reveals a remarkable difference between lions in West and Central Africa and lions in East and southern Africa.
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March 2011 - Effects of underwater sounds on fish and marine mammals
New IBL-funding has been awarded for a large-scale collaborative project to assess the effects of anthropogenic underwater sounds on fish and marine mammals in the North Sea.
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February 2011 -  Injecting zebrafish at high speed
Zebrafish are extremely suitable for studying tuberculosis. Leiden researchers have succeeded in automating critical experimental steps using zebrafish embryos; their findings appear on the February 16 issue of the scientific journal PLoS ONE. Their work will enable a faster, better understanding of tuberculosis progression, and how it may be halted.
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February 2011 - New funding for the development of a metabolomics resistance test at the IBL
Researchers from the Plant Ecology and Phytochemistry group at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) received an STW (Stichting Technologische Wetenschappen) grant for applied studies in plant herbivore resistance with potential for a novel resistance test.
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January 2011 - Dr. Annemarie Meijer discoverer of the year
Annemarie Meijer of the IBL Molecular Cell Biology group has been voted discoverer of the year 2010 for the Leiden Faculty of Science. She received the honour for her molecular work on the immune system of zebra fish (Danio rerio).
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December 2010 - TNO-IBL thesis defense Dr. Braaksma
Machtelt Braaksma, associated with our Molecular Microbiology group, successfully defended her thesis on: ‘A functional genomics study of extracellular protease production by Aspergillus niger’.
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