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Microbiology is attracting more and more interest among young people, especially in connection with their own health. Practical experiments in this field often require a permit for hygienic reasons, are very complicated and therefore expensive in terms of consumables and equipment, or are simply too technically demanding to be scientifically useful in schools.
In this Ctizen Science project, there is now an explicit opportunity for pupils from various school levels at the Wattwil Cantonal School to work together with scientists from the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Zurich to set up, implement and also evaluate a study on the oral microbiome. The study will examine microbial biodiversity over three generations between rural pupils from the Toggenburg region and more urban families from the Rapperswil-Jona region.
The opportunity to gain a wide range of experience in cross-age project and team work, as well as the exchange with various professional and research groups at the university, offer a unique chance for these young people and specifically serve to promote STEM. For the university, young people's creativity and input and the use of social platforms is a level that should be specifically included through the interface, a clear win-win situation.
The project is currently in the recruitment phase. The recruitment group has been looking for families of students who would be suitable as potential study participants according to the official community typology of the Federal Office for Statistics and their family structure. At the end of May, these families will now be invited to an informal evening event at the Kanti Wattwil. In this context, the first results from a population survey on the topic of the "Microbiome" will also be presented, which was created by our students and which you are welcome to fill out as well - thank you for your "Co-working"!
Fill out the survey "Das menschliche MIKROBIOM! Fakt oder Fake?" now (in German)!
