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| PAWS 2007 Events The PAWS UK and EuroPAWS International Seminar and Awards will be held on Tuesday 4 December 2007 at the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), Savoy Place, London WC2.
PAWS organises science and engineering based evening events and also visits for writers and producers to sites with particular relevance to modern science and technology. Visits In addition to large cross-cultural evening events, PAWS also organises informal meetings with small groups of scientists, writers and producers, leading to visits to research departments in various disciplines. One group of six writers spent a day at the Hammersmith Hospital, where Professor Amanda Fisher had arranged a tête-à-tête style rendezvous with lab leaders from both Epigenetics and Development and Genomic and Molecular Medicine, including a live demonstration of how to transplant genetic material from a human cell into a mouse embryo. "This is one of the images which will stay with me for life and is certain to make its way out in writing. What a unique day" Tony Etchells, Screenwriter. In March this year, after a lunch meeting hosted by BBC Drama Scotland a group was invited to spend a day at the Human Reproductive Sciences Unit at the Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, where Professor Philippa Saunders had gathered a large group of scientists for free informal discussion and a day which included taking part in experiments testing samples of DNA for evidence of cancer. "I was most struck by the passion the scientists feel for their work, and their sincere desire to communicate; they were happy to engage with us at whatever level we felt comfortable with and took our questions and concerns seriously" Sergio Casci Screenwriter. Future visits A visit is planned for the autumn to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow at the invitation of Professor Sheila Rowan, Experimental Physics. |
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