Christmas lectures

Each year we are welcoming students from various secondary schools to our Christmas lectures. This year was once again a success:

@dadapisconti giving one of our Xmas lectures to ~ 200 secondary school students pic.twitter.com/b2C7Ocs3Z0

— IIB outreach (@livuniIIBpec) November 30, 2016

Thanks to Jay Hinton (“It’s amazing you’re not dead yet”), Dada Pisconti (“The secret life of stem cells”) and James Hartwell (“Plants to save the world”) for their inspiring talks and thanks to our young visitors for coming.

Really enjoyed giving 1 of the IIB Christmas Lectures with @dadapisconti @livuniIIBpec – earlier version online at https://t.co/PvMRXkqqYx pic.twitter.com/oXfbACbXgz

— Jay Hinton (@jay_salsa) November 30, 2016

Earlier version of Jay’s talk:

TEDxGhent talk on ageing now available

In a previous post, João Pedro de Magalhães reported his experience of giving TEDxGhent talk on “Genes regulating ageing and the quest for immortality“.

The video is now available:

The importance of culturing cells in hypoxia – Dr. Violaine Sée

The company don whitley scientific has produced a video of Violaine Sée explaining the importance of controlling the oxygen level when culturing cells; excerpt

For example, we have shown that if cells are cultured in hypoxia [low oxygen] for several days, then they become resistant to chemotherapeutic treatments