Cambridge science festival 2019

The Oudin Lab participated in the Cambridge Science Festival this weekend! With other members of the BME department from the Black and Kaplan labs, we developed an activity for kids to build organs out of different materials, including cells, silk scaffolds and extracellular matrix! It was a busy day with lots of visitors!

region iv Massachussetts science fair

Madeleine and Sam helped judge posters for the local high school science fair.

CANCER DETECTION ACTIVITY At the CEEO

Madeleine helped coordinate a workshop on cancer detection with the help of BME members Morgan Hawker, John Yuen, Nick Fiore and Nirosha Murugan. We hosted 25 Danish high school students at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. 

Oudin LAB at LOCAL science club 

Several members of the Oudin lab went to the Freedom Connexion Science Club in Somerville to teach 1st-3rd graders about different types cells. We then made animal, plant and prokaryotic cells for them to bring home. 

AAUW Minneapolis

Madeleine was in Minneapolis giving a talk at the local AAUW chapter, where her Aunt Julie is a member. The AAUW is a political organization with the goal of advancing equity for  women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. It was so great to have her family present to hear her talk about her research and have such an engaged crowd of women, many of which were cancer patients themselves.

Cambridge Science festival 2017

The Koch Institute featured a mini-golf course this year for the Cambridge Science Festival with the goal of putt-ing cancer in its place. The course featured 9 holes on various aspects of KI research including two on metastasis. The one on the left featured local invasion through the extracellular matrix to the blood vessel (by the Hynes lab) and the one on the right represented dissemination throughout the vasculature and eventual colonization of secondary organs. We had a great time!

AAAS SCIENCE in the classrom DAY!

Madeleine went to Linden Steam Academy in Malden, MA to speak to middle schoolers (grade 6, 7, 8) about what kind of research she does and how she became a scientist. 

GIRL SCOUT STEM CONFERENCE

Jaime Cheah, Becca Silberman and Madeleine organized workshops for middle and high school Girl Scouts of Massachusetts to teach them about cancer research. In particular we focused on what cancer is, what it looks like and how we work on trying to treat it. This was particularly special day for Madeleine, who was Girl Scout for over 10 years!

Gertler lab participates in Cambridge Science Festival!

Madeleine, her students Joelle, Lucie and Tatiana, along with other members of the Gertler lab, taught visitors about the process of cancer metastasis through an interactive game called 'Menapoly'.