Company recently participated in an exhibition at Basingstoke's Willis Museum that was designed to encourage young people to consider a career in science
For over 30 years, Oxoid has manufactured products that are used in clinical, food and pharmaceutical microbiology laboratories worldwide from its headquarters in Basingstoke, UK.
The company recently participated in an exhibition at Basingstoke's Willis Museum that was designed to encourage young people to consider a career in science.
Visitors to the Museum learnt how microbiology is present in everyone's lives from the moment they get up to the moment they go to bed.
The science of microbiology and what Oxoid does was also explained in a series of easy to understand posters.
"We see it as an important part of what we do at Oxoid to encourage young people to consider microbiology, and other life sciences, as a career" says Patrick Druggan, principal scientist at Oxoid who organised the exhibition.
"Too often science is seen as difficult and non-glamorous, but what could be more important than developing products that help to save people's lives or prevent food and drugs from being contaminated with micro-organisms that could cause illness?.
"This is incredibly rewarding," he concludes.
The series of four interactive posters that show how microbiology features in the bathroom, at breakfast, at work and at play will next be on display at the Laboratory News Forum in January 2006, where Alison Smith, marketing manager, will give a presentation on 'Microbiology for non-microbiologists'.
