Mystery as the fundamental feeling that lies at the cradle of true art and science is the theme of this year's Night of Scientists, which will take place on Friday, 6 October. Like every year, the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University will also take part this year.
Since 2005, during the Night of Scientists, hundreds of research institutes, scientific workplaces, observatories, universities and other places, many of which are normally off-limits to visitors, come to life after dark. During the traditional popularization event, the corners of the university campus in Brno-Bohunice are also opened to the curious, where other faculties and departments of Masaryk University find refuge during one evening a year. In addition to the home faculties - medical, natural science and sports studies - the faculties of pharmacy and economics and the Centre for Language Education will also expand the varied programme.
The Faculty of Medicine will be represented by a total of nine plus one workplace, besides the campus ones, those interested will also be able to go to the Masaryk Institute of Oncology, to get acquainted through the mysterious rays on the Yellow Hill with the history of radiation treatment and current techniques of radiotherapy, radiosurgery and dosimetry. This is one of the programs for which it is necessary to register in advance, the others are excursions to the Simulation Center, tours of the Anatomical Museum and a workshop of the Biophysical Institute called Eye Unseen, Ear Unheard, which will introduce the interested to medical imaging methods.
I want to go to Anatomy Museum I want to go to the Simulation centre I want to go to Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute I want to go to Department of Biophysics
In the premises of the Institute of Public Health in the A21 building, our nutritional therapists are preparing a programme that will introduce the secrets of the digestive tract, while in the neighbouring A20 building, the Institute of Physiology is preparing a playful and interactive workshop through which even the youngest participants will be able to discover what we as a human species have inherited from the human kingdom. However, the bulk of the programme will take place in the campus corridors, where there will be two stations of the Institute of Histology and Embryology focused on stem cell research and use, as well as a station of the First Neurology Clinic dedicated to neurodegenerative diseases. All three can be found in front of the Institute of Biology (B07), where those interested will discover the secrets of the cancer cell.
In total, all the participating departments on campus will provide a programme at more than sixty stations during this year's Night of Scientists, and those who wish to give their tired legs a rest will be able to do so in Auditorium B22, where a series of popularisation lectures by experts from the Faculty of Medicine and Science will take place from 18:30.
On Monday, 11 March, Brain Week, an event that focuses on brain research and neuroscience, started. For the first time, the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital in Brno joined the event in cooperation.
Just like last year, the last Saturday in February belonged to MJUNI - Masaryk Junior University. And just like last year, the Faculty of Medicine joined forces with the Faculty of Pharmacy, thanks to which the participants had a choice of thirteen programmes.
