PI: Seeing Life through a New Light, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, 15th July 2017

Jonathan Nylk
Sunday 16 July 2017

Over 900 visitors at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester on Saturday 15th July enjoyed activities including the “Orange juice challenge”, making pin-hole cameras, performing pepper-oscopies, and learning about light, microscopes, displays, and optical trapping at our Seeing Life through a New Light event.

The event was part of the Museum’s monthly Platform for Investigation, inviting scientists to present cutting-edge research to visitors of all ages on a purpose-built, high-tech platform. Answering this call were students and staff from the Universities of St Andrews and York, in the groups of Profs Kishan Dholakia, Malte Gather, and Thomas Krauss.

This event was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

PhD student Adrià Escobet Montalbán explains how light-sheets are revolutionising biomedical imaging.

PhD student Roopam Gupta demonstrates how light can trap and manipulate microscopic objects.

Left to right: Andrew Morton, Jan Murawski, Isabel Barth (York), Giampaolo Pitruzzello (York), Graham Bruce, Soheil Mojiri, Kishan Dholakia, Mingzhou Chen, Jonathan Nylk, Adrià Montalbán, Roopam Gupta.