On Saturday, January 23rd 2016, the 9th Science-Rally of the University of Bonn was conducted at the Campus Bonn-Poppelsdorf. Approximately 150 high school students from the region Bonn Rhein Sieg set out to discover the exhibitions and research challenges, which were organized by 14 Institutes of the Natural Sciences Faculty. This year, the LIMES institute was represented by the Molecular Developmental Biology Unit with the topic "What can we learn from zebrafish and Drosophila about human diseases". 

The rally was designed as a research chase, where the students had to successfully master questions and challenges at each station of the rally. In the LIMES institute, the “young researchers” had the pleasure/task to identify Drosophila wildtype and mutants using the stereomicroscope, to score the fitness of peroxine mutants using the “climbing” assay, to determine the age of living zebrafish embryos and larvae and to identify fluorescing peroxisomes in a zebrafish disease model. 

Finally, the successful accomplishment of the research enterprise was rewared by some incentives for the students, at the finish line of the rally, in the Meinhard-Heinze-Haus.