Mendel lecture
The Mendel Lectures (also Mendel Lectures ) are reminiscent of Gregor Mendel , the founder of scientific genetics . They have been taking place in the Mendel Museum since May 2003, which is located in the Augustinian Abbey complex in Old Brno in the Czech Republic. Several times a year, leading researchers in the life sciences , including Nobel Prize winners, give lectures on their subject.
history
The idea for lectures in honor of Mendel came up at an EMBO workshop in Vienna that Kim Nasmyth and Dieter Schweizer had organized in 2002. The first lectures in Brno were given on May 13, 2003 by Walter Bodmer from Oxford and Charles Weissmann from London. Bodmer spoke about the human genome ( The human genome: Past, present & future ), while Weissmann prion diseases in the affected themed ( The role of DNA in prion diseases ).
Current topics 2016: Michael Rossmann , Purdue University, West Lafayette ( A personal history of structural virology ), Stephen Philip Jackson , University of Cambridge, UK ( Harnessing genetic principals to treat human disease ), Joan A. Steitz , Yale University, New Haven ( Viral and cellular noncoding RNAs: Insight into evolution ) and Stephen J. Benkovic , Pennsylvania State University ( De novo purine biosynthesis: The purinosome ). In the first 13 years of its existence, more than 50 renowned scientists have given lectures, which are mainly attended by students, doctoral students and scientists. The lectures will be broadcast to various institutes in the Czech Republic. The event will u. a. funded by the European Commission's research framework program.