IBL symposium 2024 started! ⁦Gilles van Wezel 💙💛⁩ kicking off the day full of science related to the institute - harnessing biodiversity for health

great to have Bradley Moore over to speak about amazig natural product discovery from marine biodiversity at our annual symposium LeidenBiology LED3 hub (inactive account)

use of the plant extract library by Nathaniel Martin to screen for bioactive molecules. Great story at the annual symposium LeidenBiology

DEEL II van de vraag van Maarten (24) "Hoe lossen we het micro-plastics probleem op?" 🔬🦠 💬 Bekijk het antwoord van Jo-Anne Verschoor, plastic afbraak onderzoeker aan de Universiteit Leiden LeidenBiology @leiden @ClaessenLab #leidenkennisstad #vraaghetleiden #vraag #microplastics

Thanks to LeidenBiology and Leiden Science for highlighting our paper: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Congratulations to Shixiong Cheng for winning the Netherlands Evolutionary Biology 2023 Prize for the work: A life-history allele of large effect shortens developmental time in a wild insect population published in Nature Ecology and Evolution! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Glad to share our newest publication in Nature Communications 🎉🎉🎉… summarizing about a decade of work how Bacillus subtilis adapt when challenged with Aspergillus niger Enhanced surface colonisation and competition during bacterial adaptation to a fungus nature.com/articles/s4146…

📆Image of the month: June - "World Without Walls" by Joost Willemse, Leiden University 🦠A glimpse into the emergence of L-form bacteria in an E.coli biofilm 🔬 Jeol 7600 #SEM (JEOL EUROPE), Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) Microscopy unit, Leiden University (Leiden University)

today during my official farewell as Director of LeidenBiology I was honoured with my own beer named "Community". What an incredible gift! Special thanks to the Biospirits and esp. Thijn for the label and christina kamerman for the beer selection. It tastes amazing!!

Meet the new iGEM Leiden team!!

Ethylene glycol is widely used as monomer of the plastic PET. It is therefore highly relevant as sustainable feedstock for microbial biotechnology. In our new preprint, we discover and characterize efficient enzymes for ethylene glycol oxidation: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

One in five bacteria can break down plastic: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Today, the Provincie Provincie Zuid-Holland visited IBL for the transfer of the Dutch Extract Library Library (DEL). This plant extracts collection contains 2240 unique extracts and will continue to be available for companies and academic collaborations. linkedin.com/posts/institut…

A nice little write-up on the Leiden University news portal describing our next-generation bacitracins published this week in PNAS. Leiden Science LED3 hub (inactive account) LeidenBiology Ned Buijs Stephen Cochrane Tanja Schneider universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

A well-written news written by Manon about our Dutch Extract Library library available LeidenBiology Universiteit Leiden We're actively looking for collaborators and users. Want to know more? 👇 This is the library you did not know you had been looking for universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Een universitair diploma halen, maar toch gaan ondernemen. Biologie-alumna Erna Barel en haar man richtten 30 jaar geleden samen @BaseClear op. Inmiddels hebben ze een succesvol biotechbedrijf op het LeidenBioSciencePark. Bekijk hier haar verhaal: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… LeidenBiology

The first ERC Synergy grant for chronobiology has been awarded to Microclock to investigate the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock. MicroClock is a collaboration between Martha Merrow, Antony Dodd & Akos T Kovacs Universität München John Innes Centre Leiden University European Research Council (ERC) #ERCSyG

Bacterial cell wall, biofilm and morphology enthusiasts - our new preprint shows how E. coli manages to survive without its essential cell wall! Check it out 👇#microbiology #bacteria LeidenBiology The Claessen Lab Han de Winde @handewinde.bsky.social