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Day 2 – Microbe Safari Public Outreach Event

10/3/2018

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Throwback to learning about how clean your hands are and a giant inflatable E. coli!

As part of the Florey Institute launch celebrations (#TDDW), our scientists took a ‘Microbe Safari’ to the Winter Garden in Sheffield City Centre. We hosted a range of activities, all overseen by the giant inflatable E. coli.

With lots of fun interactive activities on offer, it was the perfect opportunity for members of the public to learn more about bacteria, infectious disease and the work we do at the Florey Institute.

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Activities included an opportunity to see how many bacteria grow on your hands.  For the results of these experiments, please visit: ‘What's growing on YOUR hands’. There was also the chance to see how good your hand washing technique really is with the help of special UV dust!

To show the diversity, and beauty, of bacterial cultures, our scientists bought along agar plates containing lots of different types of bacteria. There was also the chance to learn about microscopes and see how we use different models to carry out our research. With these activities and more (including an opportunity for our younger visitors to ‘make a microbe’), it was lovely to meet so many people interested in our research.

Thank you to everyone from the Florey who volunteered their time to help out, and to everyone who visited our exhibits!

See #MicrobeSafari for more images of the event!
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Hazel Owens link
26/6/2018 11:53:00 pm

That's interesting that to do some public outreach on microbes that they had scientists bring agar plates with different types of bacteria. It seems that kids would really like this event to see what all the different kinds of bacteria look like. I'll have to look into what kind of public outreach events are near me to see if my kids will like any.

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Andrew Fenton
27/6/2018 01:50:56 pm


Kids (and adults) loved our plates - which were all 'not-so scary' versions of disease causing microbes. We did have to make sure they all stayed in their 'cages' though :)

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