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Join us for a pint at The Baby Goat to learn about powerful X-ray lasers, and the killer cells inside your body.
How do you film something as tiny and fast as atoms moving? In the first talk, we explore gigantic X-ray lasers that act like ultra-powered microscopes, letting scientists capture “molecular movies” of chemical reactions and proteins in action. The second talk turns inward to your immune system, where T cells act like trained defenders - remembering past infections and jumping into action when the same threat returns.
The Baby Goat is inside the Westifield mall!
How do you film something as tiny and fast as atoms moving? In the first talk, we explore gigantic X-ray lasers that act like ultra-powered microscopes, letting scientists capture “molecular movies” of chemical reactions and proteins in action. The second talk turns inward to your immune system, where T cells act like trained defenders - remembering past infections and jumping into action when the same threat returns.
The Baby Goat is inside the Westifield mall!
Free Electron Lasers - Biiiiiig x-ray laser
Eugenio Ferrari
(FLASH)
The discover of X-rays in 1895 changed how we see inside the objects around us and inside our bodies. Then, when the first laser was discovered back in 1960, it very quickly revolutionized the way we explore matter, with large impact on everyday life.
Zzzz, booooring!
Forget everything you know about high-end PC builds or the latest consoles. If you want to see the ultimate "gaming rig," you have to look at an X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). Imagine a facility so massive it stretches for miles underground, a marvel of technology producing the most intense x-ray in the world, built with one goal: to play the highest-resolution, highest-frame-rate video game in existence-the Game of Life at an atomic level.
Zzzz, booooring!
Forget everything you know about high-end PC builds or the latest consoles. If you want to see the ultimate "gaming rig," you have to look at an X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). Imagine a facility so massive it stretches for miles underground, a marvel of technology producing the most intense x-ray in the world, built with one goal: to play the highest-resolution, highest-frame-rate video game in existence-the Game of Life at an atomic level.
May the T cells be with you: Immune Memory Explained
Rosa Isela Gálvez
(BNITM)
What do you know about the galaxy inside you? About the constant battle between your immune system and the environment?
Your immune system is not just a defence, it’s memory. Every infection leaves a trace, training a network of cells that remembers past battles and prepares for the next one.
For more than 200 years, vaccines have been teaching the immune system without real danger, building protection before your body ever faces the actual threat.
But this system isn’t perfect. Immune memory can fade. Not all responses are equally strong. And we are still learning what truly makes protection last.
Join me for a short, visual, and fun journey into you and immune memory.
No background needed. Just curiosity.
In a galaxy not so far away, inside you, the Force is always learning.
May the T cells be with you.
Your immune system is not just a defence, it’s memory. Every infection leaves a trace, training a network of cells that remembers past battles and prepares for the next one.
For more than 200 years, vaccines have been teaching the immune system without real danger, building protection before your body ever faces the actual threat.
But this system isn’t perfect. Immune memory can fade. Not all responses are equally strong. And we are still learning what truly makes protection last.
Join me for a short, visual, and fun journey into you and immune memory.
No background needed. Just curiosity.
In a galaxy not so far away, inside you, the Force is always learning.
May the T cells be with you.
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