A training course enables primary school teachers from Guangdong province's Shenzhen and Meizhou to experience advanced technologies in synthetic biology.
The training course, which ran between Feb 6 and 10, gathered 50 primary school science teachers from Guangdong province's Shenzhen and Meizhou to share their respective experiences in delivering science class, visit labs with the latest equipment, follow established scientists in conducting experiments and listen to their lectures on such cutting-edge topics as neurology, robotics, synthetic biology and the metaverse.
Those scientists include Erwin Neher, winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, John Roger Speakman, a biologist and a foreign academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Pan Yi, director of the school of computer science with CAS Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology.