Art&Science Day: when the SFBD meets the HEAR

As a premiere, the SFBD organized an Art and Science Day at the University of Basel (Switzerland). With the Visual Didactics class of the HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin) and our sponsors Eucor and DialogScience, we introduced the field of Developmental Biology to the students of this prestigious Art School through oral presentations, practical workshops and a guided tour of Zoo Basel which focused on the different reproductive animal strategies.

This day was coordinated by Maëva Luxey (SFBD Project Manager, Associate Researcher, Institute of Zoology, Basel) and implemented by the following speakers:

François Bernier, Professor at the University of Strasbourg, Director of the Maison pour la Science en Alsace,

Adrian Baumeyer, Curator of Zoo Basel,

Glenda Comai, Board member of the SFBD, CNRS Researcher, Institut Pasteur, Paris,

Pascale Dufourcq, Professor at Toulouse Paul Sabatier University,

Sophie Jarriault, Board member of the SFBD, Research Director, IGBMC, Strasbourg,

Andrea Pasini, Board member of the SFBD, CNRS researcher, IBDM, Marseille,

and several doctoral and post-doctoral students from the University of Basel that helped during the workshops.

Inspired by the different topics discovered during the day, the students of the HEAR will be guided by their teachers, Olivier Poncer and Olivier-Marc Nadel, and our spekers to create visual and educational objects (such as pop-up books, and comics).

You will have the opportunity to come and admire these creations during an exhibition at our next Franco-Japanese Conference on Developmental Biology from November 7 to 10, 2022 in Strasbourg.

A dedicated article, written by Romain Gascon, has just been published on the newspaper DNA (Latest News Alsace): https://c.dna.fr/culture-loisirs/2021/11/27/video-diaporama-a-l-universite-de-bale-les-etudiants-de-la-hear-s-inspirent-de-la-biologie-du-developpement-sock

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