Why do we find chocolate so delicious? And why should we avoid jellyfish and poisonous snakes? And what does all this have to do with our brain? In the last KinderUni lecture of the spring semester, neurobiologist Christiane Richter-Landsberg answers exciting questions.
An elephant has a much larger and heavier brain than a dog. Does that make the grey giant smarter? Or does it depend more on how well the many nerve cells in the brain can "talk" to each other? Prof. Dr Christiane Richter-Landsberg will answer these exciting questions for the eight to twelve-year-old young researchers at the KinderUniversität on Wednesday, 19 March at 4.30 pm in the Audimax of the Lecture Hall Centre.
However, the joint "journey through the brain" has even more "aha" experiences in store for the children, for which they are sure to find a place in the 100 billion or so nerve cells in their heads. Why do we find chocolate so delicious? And why should we avoid jellyfish and poisonous snakes? And what does all this have to do with our brains? The neurobiologist will reveal all this in the last lecture of the spring semester.
Tickets (2 euros) are available online via Nordwest Ticket GmbH (www.nordwest-ticket.de) and at the offices of the Nordwest-Zeitung. Admission to the auditorium centre (building A14) is from 4.00 pm. Adults do not need an admission ticket - they are not allowed in the lecture theatre, but can follow the lectures on a screen in the foyer of the lecture theatre centre. The Malteser Hilfsdienst will provide security on site.
If you would like to familiarise yourself with the topic of the lecture now, you can do so in the children's library at the PFL and all Oldenburg district libraries. Special book tables have been set up here.
The media partners of the KinderUniversität Oldenburg are the Nordwest-Zeitung, NDR 1 Niedersachsen and Radio Bremen Vier. The project is supported by Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg (LzO) as well as Nordmetall, the business association "Der Kleine Kreis e.V." and "Junge Öffentliche".
