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-# Allan Lab Website
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-This is the website of our academic research group at Leiden University.
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-This website is powered by Jekyll and some Bootstrap, Bootwatch. We tried to make it simple yet adaptable, so that it is easy for you to use it as a template. Plese feel free to copy and modify for your own purposes.  You don't have to link to us or mention us (but of course we appreciate it).
-
-Go to *aboutwebsite.md*  to learn how to copy and modidy this page for your purpose. 
-
-
-Copyright Allan Lab. Code released under the MIT License.
 
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   enable_coderay: false
   parse_block_html: true # default for kramdown is false. This will enable using Markdown links
 
+
+theme: jekyll-theme-time-machine
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