Science Week 2008
Schools Events and Science Week 2008
Professor Elizabeth Smythe
- Cell'r'Us: Y5 and Y6 classes at Halfway Junior School, Sheffield
- Chromatography of Smarties: Y2 classes at Gremoside Primary School
- Cells'r'Us: Y5 at Royston Parkside Primary School, Barnsley
- Cells'r'Us: Y7 at Royston High School, Sheffield.
Dr Louise Robson
- 4th February: Genes and Disease, Springwell Community School, Chesterfield
- 13th February Matters of the Heart, Royal Society of Chemistry event, Burnley Football Club
- 3rd March: Genes & Disease, Bradfield School, Sheffield
- 5th March: Genes & Disease, Chesterfield College
- 10th March: Matters of the Heart, Brinsworth Junior School, Rotherham
- 11th March: Genes & Disease, University of Sheffield Masterclass
- 13th March: Genes and Disease, Thomas Rotherham College, Rotherham
- 17th March: Matters of the Heart, Lydgate Junior School, Sheffield
- 18th March: Matters of the Heart, Lydgate Junior School, Sheffield
- 15th May: Humans: bags of electricity, Sheffield High School Junior Department
- 21st May: Lungs, Sheffield High School Junior Department
- 30th June: Genes & Disease, Lancaster Girls Grammar School, Lancaster
Dr Alex Whitworth
6th February 2008: Interviewed by BBC Radio Sheffield on the Norman Pressman show about research into Parkinson's disease that is sponsored by the PDS.
Dr Steve Renshaw
April 2008: "Design an Immuno-bot" workshops delivered to schools in Science week.
Professor Marysia Placzek
March to September 2008:
Science is fun! Lydgate Infant School
Eggs, Embryos and Babies, Lydgate Junior School
Cloning: What? Why? Whether? Notre Dame High School, Tapton Secondary School, King Edward Secondary School
Dr Oliver Bandmann
May 2008: Gave a talk to the Charity "Help the Aged/Research into Ageing" about "New strategies to identify disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson's Disease".
Dr Vincent Cunliffe
June 2008: Spending a morning at a local junior school looking at wild-type zebrafish embryos.