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Photo album: Superbugs Pop-up 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us Photos from the Pop-Up Science Shop in the St David’s Dewi Sant shopping centre in Cardiff from 7th July to 3rd August 2025 A selection of photos taken during pre-booked school visits and on open day...

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📆 28 days
🧑🏼‍🔬 54 volunteers
🎓 3 universities
🛝 8 activities
💰 6 treasures
🧟 11 horror show booths
🖼️ 52 picture frames
🦟 100 live mosquitoes
👪 4,955 visitors
🏫 11 school visits
🎯 900 sticker challenges
🔍 753 treasure hunts
🧫 1,254 body swabs
📝 258 feedback forms
📸 >500 photos
🤷🏼 0 regrets

We would have not been able to deliver such an ambitious pop-up shop over the past 4 weeks without an army of 54 enthusiastic and tireless volunteers from across Cardiff Uni, Cardiff Met and Swansea Uni, and beyond!

THANK YOU !!

Come and find us in the St David's Centre in Cardiff!

Superbugs pop up science shop in Cardiff attracts thousands of visitors Researchers from Cardiff University and Swansea University have created a pop-up science shop in Cardiff's St David's Shopping Centre

Superbugs pop up science shop in Cardiff attracts thousands of visitors

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Science Seminar with Dr. Shruti Naik on July 17th 2pm entitled Mechanisms of tissue adaptation and maladaptation. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

Science Seminar on July 11th 1pm with Prof. Jan Korbel entitled Structural Variant Landscapes and Chromosomal Instability: Insights from Population Genomics and Single-Cell Omics. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Science Seminar on Jul 3rd 1pm with Dr. Dalan Bailey (The Pirbright Institute) entitled How to predict the next pandemic viral pathogen. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

Science Seminar with Prof. Andrew Sewell on June 26th at 1pm entitled How T-cells cure cancer. Please register at
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Science Seminar on June 19th 2pm with Prof. Isaac Kohane entitled How AI is Changing the Face of #Clinical #Care. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

Science Seminar on June 12th 2pm Prof. Anna Greka (Harvard University) entitled Cargo receptor-mediated protein trafficking in health and disease. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

Enabling Vaccine Uptake: Strategies for the Public Health Sector | British Journal of Hospital Medicine Safe and effective vaccines have been instrumental in controlling and mitigating some of the most contagious and devastating diseases throughout history, ranging from smallpox, polio and diphtheria to...

Enabling vaccine uptake: strategies for the public health sector.

Now available online in the British Journal of Hospital Medicine.

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Science Seminar with Dr. Danielle Belgrave, Vice President of AI/ML at GSK on May 29th at 5.15pm London entitled AIML at GSK: Research and applications. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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That time when we took over a former 'Clarks' shoe shop in one of the UK's busiest shopping centres and converted it into an interactive microbiology lab.

In six weeks we are going to open our doors again - bigger, better and more colourful.

Find out more at www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025!

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If you are a science teacher in a primary or secondary school in South Wales please book a visit with your class, we would love to host your pupils and let them explore the microbial world in, on and around us!

Check out more details at www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025!

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"Superbugs – A Pop-Up Science Shop"

30 June – 3 August 2025
St David’s Dewi Sant Shopping Centre
Cardiff

👉 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025

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Science Seminar on May 8th at 1p London with Prof. Caroline Trotter Defeating meningitis by 2030: research to inform policy and action. Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

Exciting times! 📢 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us At the end of June 2025 we will be opening a large “Pop-up Science Shop” in Cardiff Learn about infection, hygiene and untreatable ‘superbugs’ that are resistant to our medicines. We will take ov...

Science teachers!

If you want to prebook a place for your class to visit our upcoming large-scale pop-up shop event in the St David's Centre in Cardiff in July 2025 please get in touch!

The microbial world in, on and around us - Information, demonstrations, live stage, art, games, fun.

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Science Seminar with Prof. David M Levine (Harvard Medical School) on May 1st at 2pm on 'Home Hospital: Model, Innovation, and Scale'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un....

Science Seminar with Prof. Santiago Carmiona (University of Geneva) on April 17th at 1pm on 'Discovering the cancer cell transcriptional programs underpinning local invasion in basal cell carcinoma'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un....

Science Seminar with Prof. Santiago Carmiona (University of Geneva) on April 17th at 1pm on 'Discovering the cancer cell transcriptional programs underpinning local invasion in basal cell carcinoma'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un....

Science Seminar with Prof. van den Broek (Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zürich) on April 10th at 1pm on 'CD1d-restricted NKT cells promote colorectal cancer-derived liver metastasis'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.com/e/cardiff-un...

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Science Seminar with Prof Paul Kubes (Canada Excellence Research Chair in Immunophysiology and Immunotherapy at Queen's University) on April 4th at 1pm on 'Imaging the Innate Immune system in Infections and Sterile Injury'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

Science Seminar with Dr. Sarah Taylor (10X Genomics) on March 27th at 1pm on 'Leveraging Single Cell and Spatial Omics to Decipher Complex Biology'.

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Science Seminar with Dr. Alexandra-Chloé Villani (Harvard University) on March 20th at 2pm on 'Learning the rules of human immune tolerance through the lenses of single-cell genomics'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Science Seminar with Dr. Alexandra-Chloé Villani (Harvard University) on March 20th at 2pm on 'Learning the rules of human immune tolerance through the lenses of single-cell genomics'.

Please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un...

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Many thanks to Jayne MeninSteere, Mark Menin Steere, Amie Roberts and Mat Clement for taking part in our 2025 Guess the Healthcare Professional game @SiH Live

Diolch yn fawr iawn i @MeninSteere, Mark Menin Steere, Amie Roberts and @Mat_Clement am gymryd rhan yng ngêm ‘Dyfalwch y Gweithiwr Gofal Iechyd 2025’ @SiH Live

This Wednesday we celebrate the 31st Science in Health LIVE event #SiHLive @cardiffuni for year 12 pupils on the Heath Park campus. 🔭🧪🔬