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October 2010 - Dr. Christian Tudorache received an NWO-VENI-grant
Dr. Christian Tudorache received an NWO-VENI-grant to work on eel migration within the IBL research group of Molecular Celbiology.
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October 2010 - New funding for anti-cancer studies at the IBL
A consortium of researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) and the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) received an interdisciplinary TOP GO grant for fundamental studies with potential for novel cancer treatments.
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September 2010 - How butterflies use hormones to predict the future
Not only teenagers in their puberty are ruled by hormones. Insects also have hormones that regulate behaviour, growth and reproduction in order to be and do the right thing at the right time. Vicencio Oostra and Maaike de Jong (Evolutionary Biology) just published a paper showing how hormones regulate the adaptation to seasonal variation in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana (Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Online 8 Sep 2010).
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September 2010 - Prof. Carel ten Cate appointed to Scientific Director
The faculty board appointed professor Ten Cate with effect from September 1, 2010 for a period of four years in the position of Scientific Director of the Institute of Biology Leiden.
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August 2010 - Gerrit Jan de Bruyn appointed ‘Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’.
On August 31, Gerrit Jan de Bruyn (1931), a former staff member of the biology department was appointed ‘Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’.
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August 2010 - Invitation Open House Sylvius Laboratorium
IBL staff and biology students have left the Van der Klaauw and Clusius laboratories one year ago and have moved into the renovated Sylvius laboratory. We want to introduce our customers and friends to our research and housing, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and educational rooms.
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June 2010 - Kirsten Leiss wins Jan Ritzema Bos Award
On June 16, Kirsten Leiss of Leiden University has won the second Jan Ritzema Bos Award for the presentation of her work on ‘An eco-metabolic approach to study host plant resistance’.
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May 2010 - Fish sounds and anthropogenic noise
Leiden researchers have published an important literature review in Trends of Ecology and Evolution (TREE), one of the leading journals in the field. In the review, they call for attention for the role of underwater sound in the life of fishes and the potentially negative impact of anthropogenic noise.
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May 2010 - White blood cells in transparent embryos
Leiden molecular cell biologists in the group of Annemarie Meijer have discovered novel early macrophage-specific genes in zebrafish, including a signal transducer pivotal for the migration of macrophages in the innate immune response to bacterial infection. Their findings were published on April 27 in the medical journal Blood, with postdoc Anna Zakrzewska and PhD student Chao Cui as shared first authors of the paper.
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April 2010 - Cees van den Hondel appointed ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’
Cees van den Hondel, IBL-professor and 2010 Programme director of the Fungus programme of the Kluyver Centre received the royal distinction "Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau" on March 31 at the day of his retirement in Noordwijkerhout.
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