Meet us at Leeds Market Saturday 2nd August and pick up some science

BioLeeds has a stall at Leeds Market on Saturday 2nd August from 12.00pm-3.00 pm, where we are doing some bio-science and art based fun activities to engage with the public of Leeds. Join us to pick up some science with your weekly shop:

1. Test your sense of smell with a few mysterious scents.

2. Take a cell-fie: using your own cells and a home-made microscope we can build your portrait, and give you a copy to take home.

3. Do some fruit and veg chromatography.

We’ll be in the bottom left corner of the market, on the row of butchers stalls.

bioLeeds market stall at Huddersfield market

Bunting made from stips of blotting paper that was used for the chromatography of fruit and veg at Hudderfield market in spring 2014.

Joe from Leeds Hack Space shows a family an image on a laptop created by a DIY USB microscope in Leeds market in summer 2014.

Chromatography on blotting paper strips and turned into bunting, Huddersfield market in spring 2014.

a woman tries to describe a smell in a test tube while her family watch, a bioLeeds activity in spring 2014

close up of a DIY microscope made from a webcam and enclosed in a wooden box and connected by USB to a laptop

Joes adjusts his “home made” USB microscope at Huddersfield market in spring 2014.

Smell word cloud from bioLeeds for one of the initial smell tests

A melting block of ice with salt and dye inside so creating patterns – a bioLeeds activity at Huddersfield market in spring 2014.

Smell word cloud from bioLeeds for one of the initial smell tests

Smell word cloud created from all bioLeeds smell tests

Smell word cloud from bioLeeds one of the initial smell tests

smells mapping bioLeeds smell test at Huddersfield market spring 2014

close up of a DIY microscope made from a webcam and enclosed in a wooden box

Chromatography on blotting paper strips and turned into bunting, Huddersfield market in spring 2014.

a family with two small children all look at the image from a DIY microscope on a screen

Cell-fies with a DIY microscope, smell mapping, chromatography bunting made with squished fruit from the market and melting ice that melted a bit randomly.

Organised by bioLeeds contributors Joe Corcoran, Jo Gallaway, Jo Leng, Paul Turner, Andrew Wilson.