Sunday May 11, 2008
British Scientific Competitions and My Little Sister
The Winning Lecture at the FameLab Science Competition: the Gene that Promotes Monogamy
Adi Yaniv, a Biomedical Masters student at the Hebrew University Dental
School, won a trip to the science festival at Chatham, and a laptop.
Adi Yaniv, a Masters student at the Dental School at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem is the winner of the FameLab competition. In
this competition, young scientists are asked to explain complex
scientific topics to an audience of laymen in three minutes, and with
no technical assistance whatsoever. The competition, organized by the
British Council in cooperation with the Center for Scientific Education
in Tel Aviv, has been taking place for two years, and has drawn, this
year as well, outstanding young researchers, some of whom already
published papers in esteemed scientific magazines.
The competition's finals, which took place last week, nine researchers
who won primary local competitions at the Technion (Israel Institute of
Technology), the Center for Scientific
Education in Tel Aviv, and the Science Museum in Jerusalem. The judges
were Professor Ehud Gazit from the Tel Aviv University, Dr. Liat
Hayardeny, a senior researcher of multiple sclerosis of Teva
Pharmaceutical, and Dr. Adi Matan, the British scientific attache.
And the point is? One of the judges carries my last name. That's no
coincidence. Liat (Liush) Hayardeny is my little sister, and a world
famous researcher of Multiple Sclerosis. Liat, I'm very proud of you.
We all are!
Posted at 08:41PM May 11, 2008 by Amiram Hayardeny in Personal | Comments[0]
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