Breadcrumb

Home
Learning
Training and events

Event Public engagement

EI at Norwich Science Festival

Get hands on with genetics and all things biology.

Start date: 24 October 2016

End date: 29 October 2016

Time: 11h00 - 17h00

Venue: The Forum, Norwich

Enquiries:

info@theforumnorwich.co.uk

Registration deadline: 29 October 2016

Cost: Varies across events

Explore

About the event
Organisers
Programme
Further information

About the event

Biology Day

Monday 24 October 2016

Earlham Institute will be taking part in Norwich Science Festival’s Biology Day. Come and investigate genetic structure and base pairs with our scientists by taking part in our Message in a Bracelet Activity. Can you guess what the message is?

Solving Problems with Science - presented by Norwich Research Park

Saturday 29 October 2016

Earlham Institute will be taking part in Norwich Science Festival’s Solving Problems with Science Day. Come and have a go at conducting your own fruit DNA Extraction and chat to our scientists about the type of work they do at the institute.

Organisers

Jamie Edwards

Programme

Day 1 - 17 October 2016

Time Topic

14:31 - 14:31

Further information

All activities are family friendly and for ages 6+, parents will need to supervise children with DNA Name Bracelets and DNA Extraction Activities. All EI-related activities are free to take part in and open to everyone. Some of the other events across the festival have a small charge. You can find more information about the festival programme and ticket prices on the Norwich Science Festival website.

Register today.

Registration deadline: 29 October 2016

Participation: Open to all

Explore

Genetic integrity needed for Biodiversity Net Gain to flower

It’s one of the most ambitious plans to rebuild the natural environment in Europe – but will Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) lead to an influx of poor-quality wildflower seeds?

EI at Norwich Science Festival

About the event

Biology Day

Solving Problems with Science - presented by Norwich Research Park

Organisers

Programme

Day 1 - 17 October 2016

Further information

Register today.

Related reading.

Genetic integrity needed for Biodiversity Net Gain to flower

Light-up plants and tunable roots signal new solutions for climate crisis

How the latest platforms are scaling-up our impact in aquaculture

The fish, the fungus, the grass, the bee - and the brassica

COPO: providing context through metadata

Standout innovation contributes to knowledge exchange

Applying spatial transcriptomics in plants

Collaborating for our future

Focus on fungi helps fight global threat to our food

New genome assembly finds yeast variant is distinct species

Science and Technology Secretary announces Engineering Biology investment

Identifying criminals from a single cell

£3m funding for project to chart cellular diversity on Earth

Mysterious microbiomes to get makeover under transformational £5.4M grant

Purple Bar moth is 1,000th species sequenced in landmark project

Scientists one step closer to rewriting world’s first synthetic yeast genome

Keeping it in the family – new study into how we share the best of our microbiomes with family members

EI at The Big Bang Fair 2014

EI at Science in Norwich Day 2014

I'm a Scientist, Get Me out of here

Women in Bioinformatics Day

Robert Kett Junior School Visit

EI at Science in Norwich Day 2015

EI Schools Programme at Fascination of Plants Day

London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF)

Inside Science