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eruf und familie WorK AnD FAmiLy<br />
46 iMDC 012011<br />
When girl‘S heartS<br />
Beat faSter<br />
trAnSLAtion Carol oBerSChMiDt Girl‘s Day 2011<br />
“Heartbeat” was the motto of this year’s Girls‘ Day<br />
at the MDC, which was carried out together with<br />
the Federal Ministry of Education and Research<br />
(BMBF) and the Girls’ Day national coordination<br />
office on April 14, 2011. In the MaxLab, the MDC lab<br />
for secondary school students on the Buch campus,<br />
29 Berlin school girls between 13 and 15 years of<br />
age investigated heart cells, arteries and veins,<br />
monitored their heartbeats with an exercise ECG<br />
and were amazed to learn that a blue whale aorta<br />
was big enough for them to crawl through.<br />
Does red cabbage always stay red? No way!<br />
Abracadabra – and now it is glowing as green as<br />
grass! In the first event on the morning of Girls’<br />
Day, the biochemist Oliver Grammel tweaked<br />
the girls’ curiosity with his science magic show<br />
“CheMagie“. Right before their eyes he made<br />
chocolate kisses grow or shrink, turned metal into<br />
gold and extinguished fire, seemingly by magic.<br />
Sorcery or science? The magician-scientist gave<br />
repeated hints that chemical reactions were behind<br />
the spectacular tricks. And thus the girls got on<br />
the bus from the Ministry building to Berlin-Buch<br />
with the feeling that chemistry and biology are perhaps not so<br />
boring after all, and they looked forward to doing experiments<br />
in the lab themselves.<br />
it’s all about the cardiovascular<br />
system<br />
“You can listen in school – today here in the MaxLab you<br />
get to do experiments on your own!“ With these words Cornelia<br />
Lanz, the administrative director of the MDC, welcomed the<br />
29 girls from three Berlin schools to the MaxLab, the MDC lab<br />
for secondary school students. The team led by Claudia Jacob,<br />
biologist and scientific head of the MaxLab, had prepared six<br />
experimental stations related to the topic of “heartbeat“ for<br />
the girls. The MaxLab is one of three research labs on the Buch<br />
campus run by the Life Science Learning Lab offering courses<br />
in genetics, neurobiology, cell biology, ecology and chemistry<br />
for secondary school students.<br />
This year – “Health Year 2011“–- the focus in the MaxLab<br />
was on the heart. “Cardiovascular diseases are the number one<br />
health risk,“ lab scientist Ulrike Mittmann pointed out. “We<br />
want to raise awareness especially in young people that the<br />
disease strikes at an increasingly younger age and that more
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