Meet your molecules - in VR

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  • Date and time: Saturday 17 November 2018, 3pm to 8pm
  • Location: King's Manor, Exhibition Square (Map)
  • Audience: Open to Suitable for anyone 15+. VR headset cannot be used with glasses.
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

Put on a VR headset and dive into the atomistic world of biomolecules! Find out about the molecules that make you, YOU, and get acquainted with a whole host of biomolecules which exist inside us. Stand inside a virtual protein. Delve into DNA. Learn how researchers from the Physics of Life Group at the University of York investigate how these molecules work so that we can create future treatments to currently untreatable diseases.

Meet the Researchers: Antoinette Alevropoulos-Borrill, George Watson, Sebastien Guilbaud,  Victor Berrelleza