Science Education

Formerly known as European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences

Our inspiring educational experiences share the scientific discoveries of EMBL with young learners aged 10-19 years and teachers in Europe and beyond. We belong to EMBL’s Science Education and Public Engagement office.

ELLS LearningLAB “Biodiversity in focus – exploring the barcode of life” starting today!

What tree is it?

Can you find barcodes in a quarry?

What can molecular biology teach you about biodiversity?

LLAB Heidelberg 042016We will try to answer these and other questions during our ELLS LearningLAB “Biodiversity in focus – exploring the barcode of life” which will start today. The ELLS team and colleagues from HeidelbergCement are looking forward to collaborating with European secondary school science teachers from 14 European countries to assess quarry biodiversity with a toolkit consisting of wet-lab DNA technologies and bioinformatics.