Hi everyone!
It's been a hectic first 4 days
at our little scientific bubble! Take a look at what we have been up to! ;)
NanoDocs
During the last few days we
learned about the minor differences between cancer cells and healthy cells and
how we can use those differences to target only cancer cells. In short cancer
cells tend to overexpress CD47 ("don't kill me") receptors which tell
the white blood cells that they are healthy. The problem here is that unlike
with bacteria whose receptors are fundamentally different from ours the ones on
the membranes of cancerous cells exist in healthy ones as well, which is why
chemotherapy destroys a lot of healthy cells as well. This problem can be
alleviated with the use of multivalent nanoparticles. Using a program (in
Python) which we made we are trying to design nanoparticles that can enable us
to target much more cancer cells than healthy cells. We are having a lot of fun
getting to know each other in the team and learning new things and new
approaches in cancer treatment.
Stinkers 48
Hello! This is (from the left)
Dora, Patricia, Pawel and Tesa. Together we create the Stinkers 48 and we fight
against stereotypes and discrimination of bacteria living in and on our
body. So far we have grown bacteria from
our armpits, befriended a dead insect Fluffy (our mascot) and started an
experiment that filled the whole room and also the hallway with a wonderful
smell of fresh garlic and onion. This is the origin of the first part of our
name. The second one you can see on the picture in our hands: all mighty and
antibacterial gel named ‘48’. Hope to smell you soon!
Hello everybody!
Team Laser-Benders has been enjoying our time in Požega in the past 2 days.
After we got to know each other better on
Saturday, our leaders started to introduce what would our workshops look like.
It turns out, we were about to go on an exciting journey learning about how
awesome fractals are!
We started off learning about the idea of
fractals and where we can find them in nature. After going over the math
between them, we calculated the dimension of the Norwegian and South African
coastline and learn how to use the computer to figure it out. After spending
some time learning some theory and how fractals are applied to optics, we
needed some practical work. We spend the afternoon playing with lasers in the
dark, and look what we got!
After dinner, we joined the other teams in the
library and listened to a lecture by Ivan Đikić, famous scientist of Croatian
desecnt, from Goethe University in Frankfurt. We learned about ubiquitin and
how to make a difference in science.
Tuesday is an important game for
the team, since we’re about to learn more about waves so we could do even
cooler things playing with lasers later! Everybody’s tired because of the game
that nobody actually watched all that much because nothing was happening for
the most of the time. But, we learned you gotta make sacrifices for fractals,
so we are ready to keep on working!
Bye for now, from the coolest
team that’s having a lot of fun here,
Pozdrav and a warm talk to you
later,
Team LB!
The SEQuers
Jelena & Matilda: Awesome
starting days here at S3! So far a lot
of hard work, but a lot of fun as well! We dived into depths of genomics,
sequencing and programming, but hopefully, we’ll have some nice results already
before our first briefing :)
Jovan: Great day today, lot of
useful but also challenging stuff learned. I am sure that knowledge I gained in
last two days will help me in my future career. Looking forward to
Tin: It was a completely new
experience to get a brief introduction into the bioinformatics through Linux.I
am sure this will help me in my future career. Also, looking forward to learn
some other programs than Linux. :)
Martina: I had a great time
today. I like biology more than computing, so I liked theoretical part
more. I was so afraid of Linux, but it
turned out well.
Ana: It was really interesting to
learn how to use Linux and how to use some of the commands as I have never done
anything like this before. Looking forward to learning more in the following
days :)
Sara: - It‘s really cool to hear
about what it’s like to work as a bioinformatician, and about new ideas such as
storing regular data with DNA etc, but we survived the programming part as well
:D
Antonija
Out of all my organisational efforts Cokolino
with haselnut and keksolino have proven to be the biggest hits – you can conquer
the world with chocolate ;)
Teaching is the best possible thing on the
planet! Seeing people getting enthusiastic about the science that they're doing
is priceless, amazing and so beautiful – feels like being wrapped in a
scientific bubble where even the sky is not your limit – but it's an
interesting topic to study, as we will see in one of our following lectures.
Home is where the heart is – Summer School of Science, it feels incredible to be back home.
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