The British Science Festival Coventry and Warwickshire 2019 took place between Tuesday 10th and Friday 13th September. It featured a diverse programme of talks, debates, performances and activities at the University of Warwick and around the city.
The lecture was highly informative and allowed the lecturers from a range of backgrounds to address the common misconceptions surrounding antibiotic resistance, as well as talk about new methods to combat the problem.
One of the lecturers, specialising in microbiology at Warwick, talked to us about phages (an alternative to antibiotics). These are naturally occurring viruses (that are safe to humans) that kill bacteria by getting into bacterial cells and replicating their DNA until it kills the host.
On Wednesday 11th September, a group of Lower Sixth students attended a lecture at the University of Warwick called ‘Super Drugs for Superbugs’ about antimicrobial resistance and new ways to overcome this problem. Lower Sixth student Charlotte Bull said, ‘It was an excellent opportunity for us to gain further knowledge about biological problems currently faced by the scientific community.’
The whole panel eloquently presented their points and answered the questions from the public well. It was a great experience and has helped us to understand a problem that will be faced in the future as well as what could be done to reduce the severity of this issue. Charlotte Merry, U6th Student
