Public engagement


2018

What’s it like to be a PhD student at the LMB?
Check out Eva’s video, on the LMB YouTube channel.

Find out about Yee Lian’s recent Neuron article
Watch her video abstract on the LMB YouTube channel.

Worms go to school!
Today Denise, Yee Lian and Eva took “Worms are cleverer than you think!” to Bellbird school, Sawston, for their science club. We had great fun introducing them to our worms and, of course, playing the sweet-finding game!

Worms go to Cambridge Science Festival
An extremely busy day for “Worms are cleverer than you think!” at Cambridge Guildhall. Bill also took part in “Meet the scientist”.

School challenge project – Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology
Denise, Kristin and Eva have been taking part in this 8 week challenge project, introducing year 11 students to chemotaxis and helping them to design, test and present their own experiments.

The “Worms are cleverer than you think!” website is live!
Find out more about our activities:


2017

Big Biology Day
“Worms are cleverer than you think!” had a great day Cambridge Big Biology Day, a fantastic annual event hosted by Hills Road Sixth Form College.

London International Youth Science Forum visits our lab.
Today Denise hosted 18 LIYSF students, who looked at worms under the microscope, played the mutant matching game, and heard about the sorts of experiments that we are able to do and why worms are such a powerful model organism. Find out more about their visit here:

LMB open day
As part of the MRC Festival of Medical Research, the LMB opened its doors to thousands of visitors. The worms were busy, and Bill was interviewed on local radio. Find out more, and spot the worm costume and Kristin’s brain hat, in the video!

Worms go to school!
Denise visited Newnham Croft Primary School, to introduce Year 4 students to worms! They played the mutant matching game, and learned about genes and mutations.

Cambridge Science Festival
“Worms are cleverer than you think!” debuts at Cambridge Science Festival Kristin and Denise have been busy designing a new public engagement activity, to explain how we can use C. elegans to study neuroscience, and today we had a great day taking it to the Science Festival! The activities include looking at live worms down a microscope; matching mutant worms (uncoordinated, roller, long…) to their names; playing our sweet-finding game to learn about the importance of senses; and the final activity, designed by Soudi Imanikia and Josh Newman in Rebecca Taylor’s lab, explains how we can use worms to study aging and age-related diseases.