Science week school visit - team Stafford

On Friday 8th March, a team of intrepid microbiologists, led by Dr Graham Stafford ventured into the classrooms of Sheffield with their microbiology workshop.

Science Week project

The team discussed issues around Bacterial and caries, handwashing and some microbial cell morphology with Years 1 and 2. The 1hr sessions with 4-classes involved building bacterial models, 'meet our microbes' microscopy and an experiment testing the potency (or otherwise) of a branded handwash.

The sessions were ably run by Dr Liz Court and PhD students Alice Seleiro, Katherine Ansbro and Ashley Gains alongside Dr Staffford.

The children were a joy to work with and a credit to their school and parents and we hope have now had their eyes open to easily the most interesting scientific discipline in the universe.

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