2024 Science Fair

During the 2024 edition, the IBS proposed actions towards a school public (workshops in primary schools and workshops in its laboratories for high school students) and a conference for the general public.

Workshops, aimed at a hundred high school students, were designed to help them discover NMR, protein crystallography and cryo-microscopy. The students were able to carry out a quality control by NMR spectrometer. Some of them discovered crystallogenesis, diffraction and 3D visualization at the synchrotron on a beamline operated by IBS. Others discovered bacteriophages through electron-microscopy.

Distant high schools were not forgotten : they could attend videoconferences on professions in research. Another hundred high school students were able to question a researcher and a doctoral student from the Institute.

Ateliers lycéens 2024

Our volunteers also visited two schools in Grenoble and Saint Martin d’Hères to lead workshops on fluorescent proteins and banana DNA, which delighted 93 children aged 10 year old.

Ateliers CM2 2024

Finally, on Saturday 12 October, three of our researchers gave a conference ’Understanding microbes for better care’. They presented their work on the cellular mechanisms that allow microbes to contaminate living beings and how to fight viruses and also antibiotic resistance.

About 35 volunteers were involved in these actions, we thank them all for that !