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Invasive freshwater crayfish research
Imported for restaurants, private ponds, or benefiting from the recent connection between Rhine and Danube river basins exotic crayfish are still establishing themselves in Dutch surface waters today. The latest inventory states t ...
Supervisor: Ivo Roessink (WENR), Edwin Peeters (AEW)
Department: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group

Assessing water quality using citizen science data
Citizens are becoming more and more important in collecting data about their own environment. There are projects running that generate citizen science data about water quality. Are those data reliable? Provide they additional info ...
Supervisor: Edwin Peeters
Department: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group

Investigating the role of phytohormone cytokinin in lateral root development under salt stress
Saline soils are becoming an increasing threat to agriculture world wide. In contrast to animals that can move to avoid stressful conditions, plants are literally bound to their location. In response to unfavorable conditions they ...
Supervisor: Kilian Duijts
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Prediction and testing of protein dimerization using structural modeling and in vitro validation.
Soil salinity is an increasing problem for agriculture worldwide. To understand how plants deal with this stress we study the development of their root systems under salinity stress. In this thesis you will be studying the dimeriz ...
Supervisor: Kilian Duijts, Dr. Aalt-Jan van Dijk, Prof. Dr. Christa Testerink
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of

Impact of institutional contexts on forward-looking decisions
How do different governance contexts address uncertain long term challenges such as climate change with their current decisions? ...
Supervisor: Wieke Pot
Department: Public Administration and Policy

Embedding long-term decisions in public and private sector organizations
How can organizations balance short-term interests and long-term needs? How can we solve organizational myopia without losing touch with todays’ customers or citizens? What can be learned from private sector literature and cases? ...
Supervisor: Wieke Pot
Department: Public Administration and Policy

Itchy 'tropic potato' -- diversity and evolution of taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.)] and its itchiness
Taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott (Araceae), is widely consumed worldwide. Although taro is one of the oldest crops, it’s regarded as an underutilized and understudied ‘orphan crop’. Global taro acceptance is limited by acridi ...
Supervisor: Eric Schranz
Department: Biosystematics Group

Can buckwheat cultivation contribute to wild pollinator conservation?
Buckwheat is a crop of the old days, but is gaining more ground due to an increase of demand and the biodiversity benefits it has. It is flowering for 100 days, and very rich in nectar and pollen. In the current agricultural lands ...
Supervisor: Thijs Fijen
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Precision-Fit Yeast: Accelerating Sustainable Bioproduction with CRISPR-Cas
Yeast is a powerful platform for the sustainable production of pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, cosmetic ingredients, and other fine chemicals. By engineering yeast strains to produce target compounds at high yields, we can redu ...
Supervisor: Stefan Hoffmann, Carina Nieuwenweg
Department: Systems and Synthetic Biology

Sustainable Development Goal on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment – Its Evolution and Impact
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be adopted by all countries around September 2015 and capture the aspirations for what should be achieved by 2030 for the world to be a better place. Number 5 of the 17 proposed goals ...
Supervisor: Dr Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen (PAP), Dr Chizu Sato (SCH)
Department: Public Administration and Policy

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