A little late update, but at the end of last year a press note was published by our Institute highlighting Magda’s work on the electrochemical properties of TDMQ20, a molecule that has been proposed as a potential drug for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The press note concerns the two papers […]
Outreach activites
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During the summer, our institute published a press note about our recent publication in ACS Sensors about a smartphone-based sensor for CRP. The press note is written by the fantastic scientist and science populariser Dr Magdalena Osiał, with photos by Grzegorz Krzyżewski. Unfortunately, Meen could not be included in the […]
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting 25 young electrochemist at IChF for the third edition of the e-SPARK summer school. The school is the brainchild of Emilia, and she has written a long, nice post about it on her group webpage, so please go and read it there. […]
Emilia together with Wojtek Nogala and Aleksandra Kapuścińska-Bernatek after some struggle (the grant was first rejected and later accepted after appeal) got a grant to prepare 3 editions of summer school on practical aspects of electroanalysis During each edition 20 students from abroad and 5 students from Poland will visit our institute for a week […]
Our institute prepared a press note about our latest paper on detection of neurotransmitters in mouse serum. The pressnote itself can be found here (pdf). Quoting from it we can read “We are aiming to detect neurotransmitters at the lowest concentrations and without additional sample preparation,” says the author of […]
Again we had a group of pupils visiting us to make salt prints of photos that were printed in black and white on transparent plastic (like in overhead projectors – if anyone is old enough to remember those). This time the visitors were a group from a primary school here […]
Martin has been involved in a an education project, under the name University for young explorers, financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education aimed towards kids in the age between 10 and 13. In a series of lectures and experiments some students and lecturers at the Institute of […]
On 20th of April a group of 8 high school students accompanied by their photography professor Weronika Elertowska visited our group in order to prepare a home-made photography paper and learn a bit about what we do. The salt print technique was created in the 1830s by Henry Fox Talbot, […]