As a part of Researchers’ Night Festival events, we provided two workstations for people to be acquainted with work in a real lab.
Workstation no 1 – What does UV radiation does with your skin? on Sept 25th at 17.00-18.00 in Biomedicum (Ravila 19, Tartu).
Participants could observe cells, both damaged by UV radiation and healthy ones. They colored cells with fluorescent compounds and observed them through a fluorescent microscope.
Workstation no 2 – DNA visualization and observation of epithelial tissue on Sept 25th at 18.00-19.00 in SIME (Translational Medicine Centre, Ravila 14b, Tartu).
Participants had the opportunity to have some hands-on activities – DNA spawn visualization, separation of DNA, DNA quality and quantity valuation were taking place. Epithelial cells were taken from cheek, colored and investigated through light microscope.