Biology Week Summary

Category: Biology, News

5th October 2021

The Great Biology Bake Off

To launch Biology Week, we opened up with The Great Biology Bake Off! The event was for students to make a cake that represents something biological e.g. an organ, organism or cell, which is so amazing that it must be fictional!

Tuesday 5^th October:

Parasites: Control of Body and Mind Talk

Here, we looked at examples of creepy endoparasites, including body invaders and zombie ants! Great way to kick off Biology Week and Spooktober!
Read a report about this session by Kate, Y10 »

Wednesday 6^th October

Talk on De-Extinction!

We discussed how we could bring back animals from the dead… and if we should.

Read a report about this session by Kate, Y10 »

Thursday 7^th October

Limb and Neuronal Regeneration

During lunch, we discussed limb and neuronal regeneration. We were very lucky to have Dr. Elli Marinopoulou present her work on developmental neuroscience! She presented a fantastic talk on her work in waking up brain cells, and how we can maybe regenerate the nervous system following degeneration.

Read Media Team report here

Thursday 7^th – Friday 8^th October

Rat dissections! 

Year 12 and 13 took part in a rat dissection, to examine the mammalian organs and how their structure perfectly matches their function.