Nowgen is looking for new demonstrators!
04 Nov 2015
The Public Programmes Team at the Nowgen Centre, Manchester are looking for new demonstrators to deliver the ever-popular ‘Question of Taste’ hands-on workshops for post-16 biology students for the 2015-16 academic year
These one-day workshop explores the evolution of an unusual trait, where some people taste a particular chemical as being horribly bitter, while others can’t taste it at all. Why have we evolved these two responses? What evolutionary advantage could each have given us? Students work with their own DNA to classify themselves into one of three common genotypes and then compare their DNA sequence with that of a chimpanzee, helping them to understand convergent evolution between the two species. The workshop is led by the Public Programmes Team and run with research students from The University of Manchester. It is delivered in the Nowgen Laboratory, Grafton St., on the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust site.
All successful applicants will be invited to a briefing session followed by the chance to shadow one workshop with an experienced demonstrator for training purposes. This will be unpaid. Upon completion of training, support demonstrators will be paid £50 per workshop with the opportunity to take on the role of lead demonstrator at £75 per session.
Further information and applications
For more information and how to apply, see:
the attached flyer or contact Olivia O’Sullivan at: