Below you will find an infographic summarising the number of people Wales Gene Park Education & Engagement Team have engaged with in 2024, and examples of the kinds of events we have ran. We are grateful to all of our stakeholders for their continued support….Continue Reading Wales Gene Park’s Education & Engagement Team: 2024 in Review Infographic!
Deuce – By Illumine Theatre, Genomics Partnership Wales and Wales Gene Park When junior tennis star Alys Harris collapses serving for the championship at Wimbledon, she finds herself out-of-her-body in a hospital room, visited by her late father. Can Daf help Alys make sense of her collapse? And can the former player persuade his daughter…Continue Reading Deuce: an audio drama with Illumine Theatre
Wales Gene Park is delighted to announce that ‘Tremolo’ actor Gareth Elis (pictured below) won the Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance at the recent BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023! ‘Tremolo’ by Lisa Parry, a collaboration between Wales Gene Park, Illumine Theatre and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, supported by the Genetics Society, is a thought-provoking, bilingual podcast…Continue Reading Audio Drama ‘Tremolo’ Wins BBC Award!
We are pleased to announce that our wet lab successfully prepared and sequenced the lambda control genome on the PromethION P2 Solo, making long read sequencing with Oxford Nanopore Technologies a reality at Wales Gene Park. Our flow cell check showed the presence of 6848 pores and started running with a 93.3% pore occupancy. Here…Continue Reading Oxford Nanopore Technologies comes to Wales Gene Park!