We know it has been a while since April, but let us tell you about La Fira de la Recerca en Directe, an amazing Science Fair in which we were involved (yes, in April… these have been very busy months!). During 4 days, we were at the CosmoCaixa Science museum, showing our research and doing some hands on activities with high school students and the general public. It was great!
Only twelve research groups had the chance to participate, and we were very happy that, after a voting process and a selection committee, we were among the chosen ones.
We had an excellent opportunity to show the importance of mitochondria, to teach about the biological basis of mitochondrial disease, and to explain to the students and public why it is so important to try to cure it. A really cool part involved participants observing under the microscope their own mitochondria, looking at their very own cheek cells! (and bacteria in some cases, we won’t look at anyone! :D)
We hope they learned a lot and enjoyed the experience as much as we did!
Thanks to the Parc Científic de Barcelona for organizing it, and to ThermoFisher, for lending us the microscope we used!