On 6 October 2024, Carmen Lafuente Sanz, Doctoral Candidate at CEA – Genoscope, took part in the Fête de la Science, when Genoscope, the French national sequencing centre, opened its doors free of charge to everyone who wanted to visit or join its science workshops and activities.
Together with her colleagues, Carmen created two workshops to explain why studying DNA matters and how it is assembled once an organism has been sampled. The first introduced DNA and its relationship with proteins: participants used the genetic code to translate a DNA sequence into a chain of amino acids. The second covered the basics of DNA assembly, followed by a hands-on activity in which visitors put different DNA pieces together to build a consensus contig.
One workshop, many audiences
Families, researchers and non-experts all came along, so the audience was very varied. The main challenge was the different background of each group, and the key lesson for Carmen was to adapt the workshop to every group.
đź”— Learn more about the event here: https://www.cea.fr/far/Pages/fete-science-2024-genoscope-evenement.aspx
