"CRISPR-Cas: From superfood to designer babies" - kick-off event for the road show

CRISPR-Whisper is a science communication project within the priority program "Far more than just defense: the many different functions of the CRISPR-Cas system" (SPP 2141) of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The online blog and events are organized by the Science Bridge e.V. association at the University of Kassel, which has been offering student and citizen lab courses for more than 20 years. The road show will kick off with a lecture evening on February 8, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Kulturbahnhof Kassel. Dr. Lennart Randau from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg will introduce the topic of "CRISPR-Cas gene scissors" and give an insight into his current research work. Afterwards, comic artist Lukas Kummer from Kassel will look at the topic from an artistic perspective and pose his questions to the researcher. A small exhibition in the foyer will accompany the lecture and discussion. There will also be an opportunity to talk to both the scientist and the artist that evening.

"We at Science Bridge want to build bridges between science and society," explains Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nellen, initiator of the project, "we involve artists in our work who act as translators, so to speak." Lukas Kummer describes his role as follows: "Our main task is to mediate between molecular biologists and normal people."

Admission from 18:30.

More information about the project at: https://crispr-whisper.de/