Understanding Toxicology with Print
1 day course
30 April 2024
10am to 3:30pm
£10 including all materials, lunch will be provided
A rare opportunity to visit and learn about the research happening at the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge, and explore related images with a Lino printmaking workshop.
The unit is a leading international research institute based in Cambridge. Their mission is to carry out pioneering research and understand the links between exposure to various chemicals, toxins and pharmaceutical agents and how they cause toxicity in the human body. By determining any risks to health from drug and environmental exposures, they aim to improve health by making our medicines and environment safer. The Unit was established in 1947 and relocated to Cambridge in 2020.
Simran Aulakh is a postdoctoral researcher in the Patil lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit. She studies metabolic interactions in microbial communities.
Our gut is home to trillions of microbes – collectively known as our gut microbiome. The microbiome is even labelled a supporting organ because it plays so many key roles in promoting the smooth daily operations of the human body – including producing many molecules that our body needs - but it can easily be put out of balance. The Patil lab broadly studies how different xenobiotics – substances that are foreign to our body – impact the ‘bugs’ in our gut and the metabolic networks – the molecules they consume, break down and release. This could include things like medicines, pesticides, pollutants and more. Ultimately, by understanding how our microbiome interacts with drugs and pollutants and what side effects that can cause, we can design better ways to overcome this.
Linocut is a relief printing process in which the lino is cut away leaving the remaining raised area, which is then inked and printed. Learn how to plan, cut, and print an image using a 100 x 100 mm square lino block. On this course, you will interpret images from Simran’s research using Lino images.
Further arrival and attending information for participants will be sent after booking. Please let us know any dietary requirements for lunch.
Course structure
• Coffee and Presentation & explanation of her research by Simran Aulakh
• Q & A opportunity
• Examples & demonstration of Linocut tools and techniques by Curwen Tutors.
• Create an 100 x 100mm image on your lino tile
• Short tour of the Research department followed by lunch.
• Printing your linocut image and experimenting with colour and layering.
• Share your work
Experience level
Suitable for beginners, those wishing to refresh their skills and those interested in the work of the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge.
Maximum 12 places
Please note, the fee for this course is non-refundable.
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Full payment of the course fee is required when booking a place. A reserved place is not secure until full payment has been received.
If for any reason you are unable to attend, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee, as long as you cancel your place more than 1 month before the course start date.
There is an option to book your place for £100 deposit. If you choose this option your place is secured. The balance of term 1 will be due 20 working days before the start of the course. If you cancel more than 20 working days before the course start date, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee. If your place is not cancelled during this timescale, and the balance is not paid then the deposit is non refundable. All other Terms & Conditions remain the same. Curwen Print Study Centre reserves the right to cancel courses – a full refund will be made in these circumstances.
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Payment for Term 1 is required when booking a place. A reserved place is not secure until this payment has been received. Payments for Terms 2 & 3 will be due at the end of the previous term. Payments for Terms 2 & 3 will be due before the first day of each term.
If for any reason prior to the commencement of the course you are unable to attend, we will refund monies paid minus a £20.00 admin fee, as long as you cancel your place more than 1 month before the course start date. Once you start the course on Term 1 you have committed to all 3 terms. Course transfers are at the discretion of Curwen Print Study Centre.
There is an option to book your place for £100 deposit. If you choose this option your place is secured. The balance of term 1 will be due 20 working days before the start of the course. If you cancel more than 20 working days before the course start date, we will refund monies paid minus a £20 admin fee. If your place is not cancelled during this timescale, and the balance is not paid then the deposit is non refundable. All other Terms & Conditions remain the same.
Curwen Print Study Centre reserves the right to cancel courses – a full refund will be made in these circumstances.
