Infectious Thoughts

Glow Booth at the Auckland Arts Festival

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 27, 2015

• Auckland Arts Festival,
• bioluminescence,
• Glow Booth,
• Photobacterium,
• photos,
• thinkScience

Glow Booth at thinkScience day. Read More

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Biolumination II: Meet the artists! Rodrigo Vidal

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 26, 2015

• Auckland Arts Festival,
• bacterial art,
• Biolumination II,
• bioluminescence,
• Rodrigo Vidal,
• sci-art,
• thinkScience,
• White Night

Meet Rodrigo Vidal, one of the artists who took part in Biolumination II. Read More

Petri dish art at the Auckland Arts Festival

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 26, 2015

• Auckland Arts Festival,
• bacterial art,
• bioluminescence,
• kids,
• MOTAT,
• thinkScience

As part of the thinkScience day at the 2015 Auckland Art Festival, we spent 2 hours letting kids and their families make their own bioluminescent bacterial art using just a cotton bud, a petri dish and a solution of harmless bioluminescent bacteria. Many thanks to James Dalton, Claire Honney, Hannah Read, Simon Swift and Benedict Uy for their … Read More

Biolumination II: Meet the artists! Hope Sutherland

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 25, 2015

• Auckland Arts Festival,
• bacterial art,
• Biolumination II,
• bioluminescence,
• Hope Sutherland,
• sci-art,
• thinkScience,
• White Night

Meet Hope Sutherland, one of the artists to take part in Biolumination II. Read More

Biolumination II: Meet the artists! Cinzah ‘Seekayem’ Merkens

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 24, 2015

• @MrCinzah,
• art-science,
• Auckland Arts Festival,
• Biolumination II,
• Cinzah ‘Seekayem’ Merkens,
• Photobacterium,
• sci-art,
• thinkScience,
• White Night

Meet Cinzah ''Seekayem' Merkens, whose viperfish was a huge hit at Biolumination II. Read More

My top 10 TB facts for World TB day

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 24, 2015

• ESR,
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
• Robert Koch,
• TB,
• tuberculosis,
• WHO,
• World TB Day

For World TB day, here are my top 10 TB facts. Read More

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thinkScience at the Auckland Arts Festival – Biolumination II

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 23, 2015

• Auckland Arts Festival,
• Biolumination,
• Biolumination II,
• bioluminescence,
• Cinzah ‘Seekayem’ Merkens,
• Helen Beech,
• Hope Sutherland,
• Innovation and Employment,
• Julia Marchwicka,
• Katherine Yang,
• Laura Ward,
• Ministry for Business,
• Q Theatre,
• Rhian Salmon,
• Rodrigo Vidal,
• thinkScience,
• Tile Space,
• Vault

What happens when a microbiologist with a love of glowing bacteria teams up with a group of artists? Biolumination II! … Read More

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thinkScience day at the Auckland Arts Festival

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 05, 2015

• art,
• ASB Community Trust,
• Auckland,
• Auckland Arts Festival,
• biolumation,
• bioluminescence,
• Buddle Findlay,
• city,
• innovation,
• Innovation and Employment,
• macdiarmid institute,
• Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery,
• MBIE,
• Michelle Dickinson,
• Ministry of Business,
• Nanogirl,
• sci-art,
• Science,
• Siouxsie Wiles,
• Te Pūnaha Matatini,
• thinkScience,
• Tile Space,
• TPM,
• University of Auckland

Saturday the 14th of March sees the debut of thinkScience*, a mini-festival of science being held as part of the Auckland Arts Festival family weekend and White Night. We may be starting small, but we have something for everyone! Interested in things that go whiz/bang or got any kids or grandkids that are? Then ‘Nanogirl’ Michelle Dickinson’s … Read More

WANTED! Artists/illustrators needed for glowing art/science project.

Siouxsie Wiles • Feb 09, 2015

• Auckland Arts Festival,
• bacteria,
• bioluminescence,
• Sci/art,
• thinkScience,
• White Night

Are you an artist/illustrator who wants to try something different? Or do you know anyone who is? I’m looking for 8-10 people to join me for a very special project as part of this year’s thinkScience day being held during the Auckland Arts Festival and White Night. They will need to be free and in Auckland … Read More

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Why scientists need to step up & engage!

Siouxsie Wiles • Feb 08, 2015

• 3-person IVF,
• Alison Ballance,
• ATP,
• DNA,
• egg donation,
• geek manifesto,
• IVF,
• Kearns–Sayre syndrome,
• Mark Henderson,
• mitochondria,
• Mohawk Media,
• Science Media Centre,
• SMC,
• TEDx,
• Wellcome Trust

A few days ago, the UK parliament voted in favour of making Britain the first country in the world to permit IVF babies to be created using biological material from three different people. The vote passed by 382 to 128 – a majority of 254 – and is to amend the UK’s 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act … Read More