Fourth Girls` Day at BIOSS

Looking at fluorescent molecules with a laser microscope: Girls from the fifth grade up got to explore signalling research at BIOSS’s headquarters, Signalhaus Freiburg.

For this year’s Girls Day – an event held every April – a group of schoolgirls spent the day at BIOSS, excited to visit three laboratories and look through a microscope.

Twenty-three pupils from the fifth grade up visited the laboratories of Dipl.-Biol. Lora Braun, Jun.-Prof. Dr Max Ulbrich and Dr Georgios Pyrowolakis at Signalhaus Freiburg, where the girls learned just how broad the range of focuses and facets of signalling research can be.

Laboratory research live and up close 

The 23 participants were divided into three groups that took turns at the stations “Look into my eyes, fruit fly!”, “Bacteria DNA up close” and “Looking at fluorescent molecules with a laser microscope”.

The idea was not only for the girls to learn something new in the presentations, but also for them to try out their own experiments in the laboratory. The young visitors were therefore given the chance to put what they learned into practice with the most state-of-the-art microscope in the Signalhaus.

Girls’ Day in Germany 

Girls’ Day is a fun event organised every year throughout Germany. The goal is for girls to find out what it’s like to work in the natural sciences, IT and technology. Visiting the researchers at BIOSS is just one of the many activities schoolgirls can choose from.

For more information about Girls’ Day, please visit: http://www.girls-day.de/