Speakers for School by Institute TCD
SFI Researchers – Bringing Science to Schools
| SFI Research Team | Title of Talk/Demonstration/Activity | Suitable Ages |
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| Prof. John Boland | Seeing is Believing: Atoms are for Real | 12 - 18 |
| Dr. Stefano Sanvito | From transistors to atoms: the long story of getting smaller | |
| Dr. Derek Nolan | Tropical Diseases: Human Sleeping Sickness caused by African Trypanosomes | |
| Dr. Amir Khan | Energy, Metabolism, and Life on Other Planets | |
| Prof. Seamus Martin | Programmed cell death: How cell suicide keeps us healthy | |
| How cancer cells achieve immortality | ||
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Nanophotonics: Designing colour atom by atom (with demonstrations) |
14 - 18 | |
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The Physics of the Information Superhighways |
14 - 18 | |
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Keeping the Lights On - Energy Supply and Renewable Energy Issues for Future Prosperity in Ireland |
12 - 18 | |
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The state of Dublin Bay - Molly Malone's legacy |
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Our impacts on the oceans - Pollution and Climate Change |
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Why Blood is Red – Drugs, Vampires, and Medicine (talk) |
12 - 18 | |
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Chemical Evolution (talk) |
15 - 18 | |
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Experimental School visits (experimental, hands on chemical experiments) |
4 - 12 | |
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Lab visits to TCD for school classes |
8 - 16 | |
| Dr. Kevin Mitchell |
Genes and the Brain |
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Synaesthesia - Hearing Colours and Tasting Shapes |
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| Dr. Aoife McLysaght |
Making sense of the human genome |
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Genetics |
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| Dr. Andrew Butterfield | Computer Science; Not just another Science - How computing involves a new fresh way of thinking about and looking at the world | 14-18 |
| Prof. John Haslett |
The Drunkard's Walk and the end of the Ice-Age in Glendalough |
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| Prof. Timothy Foster | Staphylococcus aureus MRSA; From nose to morgue | 17 - 18 |
| Dr Padraic Fallon | New cures for eczema and asthma | |
| Drugs from Bugs | ||
| Evolution of man and autoimmune diseases of today | ||
| Immunology and Bugs Laboratory | ||
| Prof. Geoff Clayton | Fossil fuels: what they are and how they form | 12 - 18 |
| Dr. Derek Doherty | The immune system: the body’s defense against invaders | |
| Liver disease | ||
| Dr Jagdish Vij | Liquid crystal displays and liquid crystal based simple devices | 16 - 18 |
| Derek Sullivan | Microbes, the good, the bad and the ugly | 14 - 16 |
If you are an SFI PI and are interested in being listed on this webpage to indicate that you (or members of your group) are willing to visit local schools, please email outreach@sfi.ie with your contact details and possible titles/subjects of talks.
