The popular Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory s lecture series for middle and high school students, Science on Saturday, is going virtual this year with the theme âCombating COVID-19.â
The free, online lectures, featuring leading LLNL researchers joined by Bay Area science teachers, are scheduled for 10 a.m., on four consecutive Saturdays, beginning Feb. 6.
Each of the lectures will address a difference aspect of the scientific effort to combat the coronavirus.
Feb. 6 - âMolecular Diagnostics in the Age of COVID: Designing a Portable Point-of-Care Device.â Presented by LLNL scientists Larry Dugan and Michael Triplett, joined by Tracy High School teacher Erin McKay, the lecture will provide an overview of how viruses infect a host leading to disease, the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, the laboratoryâs previous work in molecular diagnostics, and efforts to develop a point-of-care device for use in a clinical setting.