Dr Edward Hutchinson from University of Glasgow, Centre for Virus Research, won the Microbiology Outreach Prize 2021, for his project Virus Snowflakes. Virus Snowflakes is a low-cost, papercraft educational resource, explaining virus structures by repurposing traditional paper snowflake designs. For each design, a piece of paper is folded on itself, cut along a template, and when unfolded produces a complex 2D projection of a virus particle. The resource is freely available online. Ed will deliver a presentation on his prize-winning project and will by interviewed by Dr Maria McPhillips, who nominated him for the prize.

Ed Hutchinson (University of Glasgow, Centre for Virus Research, UK)