http://fwncwww14.wks.gorlaeus.net/index.php en ralf.boland@gmail.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-17T13:49:21+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/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. 2012-02-17T12:49:21+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/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. 2012-02-17T12:32:00+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/january_2012_prof._dr._rob_verpoorte_received_an_honorary_doctorate/ On Friday the 27th, Prof. dr. Rob Verpoorte from the Natural Products Laboratory of the IBL received an Honorary Doctorate at Uppsala University, Sweden. 2012-02-07T12:32:24+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/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. 2012-01-19T18:23:05+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/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. 2012-01-13T13:50:11+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/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. 2011-11-28T08:32:53+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/november_2011_christina_may_wins_unilever_research_prize/ On November 24th, Christina May, a masters graduate of the IBL received the 2011 Unilever research prize for her theses work in the Evolutionary and Behavioral Biology groups of the IBL. 2011-11-21T12:56:31+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/ibl_symposium_2011_systems_biology/ This year's theme of the IBL symposium is “Systems Biology: from cells to ecosystems”. Holistic systems approaches are being adopted increasingly in biology. But what is that exactly, "Systems Biology"? And do we really need it when we want to understand the complexity of organisms and their interactions? With the help of four invited researchers from the Netherlands and eight scientists of the IBL we want to shed some light on this fascinating but sometimes confusing concept. We will discuss recent applications as well as future directions: from gene regulation to cell signaling, from physiology to ecology. 2011-11-03T13:50:18+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/november_2011_-_marie_curie_initial_training_network_for_the_institute_of_b/ Dr. Annemarie H. Meijer at the Institute of Biology will be coordinator of a new Marie Curie Initial Training Network receiving 3.7 million euro funding from the European Seventh Framework People Programme. The four year project, starting January 2012, is called “FishForPharma: Training Network on Zebrafish Infection Models for Pharmaceutical Screens”. 2011-11-01T08:16:20+00:00 http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/ibl/newsitem/antibiotics_wanted_wins_academic_year_prize/ Secretary of State Zijlstra slowly opened the large gold envelope containing the name of the winner of the Academic Year Prize 2011. It had been an exciting finale. But there could be only one winner. And that honour went to the Leiden team of molecular biologist Gilles van Wezel and IBL-researcher Dennis Claessen with ‘Antibiotics wanted!’ 2011-10-27T12:20:25+00:00