Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences

The Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES) aims to perform world leading research in order to understand the response of the natural environment to human impact. With this knowledge, the institute contributes to mitigating ecosystem degradation and finding solutions to restore the natural environment.

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Sophie Raterman met begeleider Juriaan Metz in de Zebravis faciliteit

More insight into craniofacial malformations through zebrafish research

13 March 2023 Research news item

In a publication in Frontiers, PhD candidate Sophie Raterman and her colleagues have shown that a specific gene has an important function in the development of the facial skeleton.

Een meting van medicijnresten in het Nijmeegse riool in 2019.

Prioritisation and Risk Evaluation of Medicines in the EnviRonment (PREMIER)

Research

Pharmaceutical residue can cause environmental damage. Much of the medicines that we use are released into the sewer via excretion. That is why a European research consortium is developing a system that analyses the environmental risks of medicines.

Longitudinal Training Dams (LTDs) as Nature-based Solutions

Friday 31 March 2023, 12:30 pm PhD defence

Natasha Y. Flores of the Animal Ecology & Physiology research group of RIBES will defend her dissertation: Longitudinal training dams (LTDs) as nature-based solutions. Improving riverine habitats in multifunctional heavily modified rivers.