{"id":1031,"date":"2015-04-13T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:33:51","slug":"crystal-based-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2015\/04\/13\/crystal-based-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal based outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/04\/Science-Fair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1034\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/04\/Science-Fair.jpg\" alt=\"Science Fair\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/l.govada\">Dr Lata Govada<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/n.chayen\">Prof Naomi Chayen<\/a> participated at an outreach event at the British Crystallographic Association\u2019s stand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebigbangfair.co.uk\/View\/?con_id=2964\">\u2018The structure stuff is sweet\u2019<\/a> in the UK\u2019s biggest Science and Engineering event, The Big Bang Fair at Birmingham NEC Arena.\u00a0They gave an overview of the importance of protein crystallization and its applications, followed by hands on setting up of crystallisation experiments by the audience with real protein and watching crystals grow. The visitors to the exhibition were fascinated to watch the crystals form in real time and were keen to take them back home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/l.govada\">Dr Lata Govada<\/a> has also been involved in the mentoring of Year 12 students in a programme organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishscienceassociation.org\/crest-awards.\">The British Science Association Crest Awards<\/a>.\u00a0The project under investigation was: Can crystals of Piezometric protein be used as a vaccine for malaria?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lata Govada and Prof Naomi Chayen participated at an outreach event at the British Crystallographic Association\u2019s stand \u2018The structure stuff is sweet\u2019 in the UK\u2019s biggest Science and Engineering event, The Big Bang Fair at Birmingham NEC Arena.\u00a0They gave an overview of the importance of protein crystallization and its applications, followed by hands on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}