Tissue Repair Postgraduate Training Programme

Tissue Repair workshop on macrophages at Midlothian Science Festival 2017

Tissue Repair students presented workshop ‘Macrophages - the unsung heroes of tissue repair’.

During the Midlothian Science Festival 2017, which ran during the Autumn school holiday, Tissue Repair PhD students presented the workshop ‘Macrophages - the unsung heroes of tissue repair’. Suitable for an audience ranging from primary and secondary school children to adults, the workshop informed visitors about the role of this type of immune cell in tissue repair. Activities included a video showing macrophages repairing a wound in zebrafish, a card game about immune cells, and creating your own macrophage using play-dough.

 

Tissue Repair stand at science festival

The Tissue Repair students were joined by colleagues from the 2 other Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD programmes run by the University of Edinburgh, the Translational Neuroscience PhD programme, who presented ‘Brains; the basics ‘ and the Host, Pathogens and Global Health PhD programme, who presented ‘Parasites, bugs and health’.

 

The outreach activities by the Wellcome Trust students were very well received, and the presenters received lots of positive feedback from the visitors.