Over the past 3 nights the Pint of Science festival has taken over five pubs around Manchester. A geomicrobiology session called “Putting Microbes to Work” was held yesterday at The Albert Club in Didsbury. Many members of the Geomicro group were there to support our very own Professor Jon Lloyd, who talked about “Extreme biology: Can microbes clean up our nuclear waste?”. In addition, Professor Barrie Johnson travelled from Bangor University to present a really interesting material on “Biomining – the green future for the minerals sector?”. Both talks presented novel and interesting ways that microbes can be used in the industrial sector.
Professors Lloyd and Johnson and the Pint of Science audienceA casual evening of pints, learning and prizes (for the winner of the geomicro quiz) was enjoyed by all so thanks again to our speakers and also Ellen and Lynn for helping organise it!
By Adrian Cleary
As part of a Future First initiative, I was kindly invited to give a lunchtime careers talk at St Benedict’s Catholic Upper School in Bury St Edmund’s, Suffolk, of which I am an alumnus. Students from Year 10, Year 11 and the Sixth Form attended my talk on “Careers in Environmental Science”. I took them […]
During the summer, members of the Geomicro research group took our ‘Life at the Extremes’ learning experience to Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank, where festival goers have the opportunity to explore the realms of music, science, art and culture. Here is a link to a review that Dr Naji Bassil has written for the Microbe […]
In the centre of Manchester, a café turned bar for the night was the setting for the recreation of the death of the dinosaurs, a sobering tale of retreating glaciers, and an exciting insight into the world of microorganisms. This was Manchester’s latest edition of a ‘Pint of Science’, where members of the public gather […]
On Saturday 16th June 2018, the University of Manchester hosted its annual Community festival. This was a fun filled event where we show cased all of our exciting research to the local community. A team of people from the Geomicrobiology research group ran a ‘Life at the Extremes’ stall located in Manchester museum. Earth is […]
