Come and cheer your favorite performance to victory of the 8th ScienceSLAM Helsinki!

…And Ladies and Gentlemen the performers for the 8^th ScienceSLAM Helsinki have been selected!!

If you are curious, for example, how is it possible to use algorithms and stand-up comedy to understand cancer, what is the similarity between microglial cells and cleaning ladies, or how photography has turned from chemistry into mathematics, come and join us on Friday the 6^th of November, 19:00-> in Elmun baari (http://elmunbaari.fi/).

This time we’ll have seven courageous researchers hopping on the stage of the ScienceSLAM Helsinki:

Lea Urpa (Neurogenomics of psychiatric disorders) – ”How do you ask a mouse how it’s feeling?”

Milla-Mari Vastavuo & Petra Tuomiranta (Synthetic biology) – ”How to conquer the world with the power of propane?”

Samuli Siltanen (Mathematics) – ”How to defuse a photobomb”

Sergio Castrillón (Musicology) – ”New directions in the cello timbre: Referential works for solo cello and cello with electronic media during the 20th and 21th century”

Rainer Lehtonen (Cancer Bioinformatics) – ”Cancerous world with zeros and ones”

Sonja Paetau (Neuroscience) – ”Elsa the cleaning lady shows her true colours. The story of the brain cell you didn’t even know existed”