outreach Archives

PostDecember 23, 2018

Raising melanoma awareness among Swedish high school students

Melanoma incidence is continuously increasing over the decades and Sweden has one of the highest melanoma incidence rates in the world (Source: WHO). Thus it is extremely important to make the younger generation aware of the melanoma risk factors and how it can be prevented by simple daily lifestyleRead More

PostAugust 28, 2018

Melanoma awareness – DNA UV bracelets, mutations and sun safety at the Fun lab, The big weekend, Cambridge 2018

Last month, a collaborative public engagement activity involving MELGEN and the Wellcome Sanger Institute was held as a part of Fun lab, The big weekend in Cambridge, UK. We had a lot of fun interacting with children, teenagers, and adults with widely varying scientific knowledge. We demonstrated through interactiveRead More

PostDecember 19, 2017

A Native Scientist workshop: How I explained skin cancer to kids

To explain my research to school pupils, I aimed at simplifying the notion of ‘cancer’, how it can invade and metastasize. I focused on skin cancer and to better illustrate it, I built a set of three interactive schemes mimicking the different skin cell types and how they canRead More

PostNovember 10, 2017

Outreaching epigenetics in melanoma at University of Helsinki

It was a great pleasure for me to represent MELGEN ESRs at the in Helsinki this year. This is an organized series arranged by the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG’s joint EU-LIFE) to bridge clinical and basic/translational research. It also aims to provide examples of howRead More