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Mendel Lectures

Index Mendel Lectures

The Mendel Lectures is a series of lectures given by the world's top scientists in genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, medicine and related areas which has been held in the refectory of the Augustian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Czech Republic since May 2003. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 183 relations: Aarhus University, Aaron Ciechanover, Ada Yonath, Adrian Bird, Alec Jeffreys, Amita Sehgal, Andrea Musacchio, Andrew deMello, Angelika Amon, Anne McLaren, Anthony A. Hyman, Austin Gerard Smith, Azim Surani, Barry Dickson, Ben Feringa, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Brandeis University, Brian Kobilka, British Council, Brno, California Institute of Technology, Cancer Research UK, Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist), Caroline Dean, Cell biology, Charles Weissmann, Colleges of the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Computer simulation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, David Hopwood, Developmental biology, Dirk Inzé, DNA, Douglas Koshland, Edward Trifonov, Elizabeth Blackburn, Elliot Meyerowitz, Emil Paleček, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Erasmus MC, Eric F. Wieschaus, Erich Nigg, ETH Zurich, European Institute of Oncology, European Molecular Biology Organization, Evolutionary biology, ... Expand index (133 more) »

  2. 2003 establishments in the Czech Republic
  3. Annual events in the Czech Republic
  4. Brno
  5. Genetics education
  6. Gregor Mendel
  7. Masaryk University
  8. Spring (season) events in the Czech Republic

Aarhus University

Aarhus University (Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark.

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Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Ciechanover (אהרן צ'חנובר; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.

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Ada Yonath

Ada E. Yonath (עדה יונת,; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.

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Adrian Bird

Sir Adrian Peter Bird, (born 3 July 1947) is a British geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.

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Alec Jeffreys

Sir Alec John Jeffreys, (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.

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Amita Sehgal

Amita Sehgal is a molecular biologist and chronobiologist in the Department of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Andrea Musacchio

Andrea Musacchio (born July 11, 1964) is an Italian structural biologist.

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Andrew deMello

Andrew James deMello (born 1970 in Kingsbury, United Kingdom) is a British chemist and Professor of Biochemical Engineering at ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).

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Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Anne McLaren

Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, (26 April 1927 – 7 July 2007) was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology.

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Anthony A. Hyman

Anthony Arie Hyman (born 27 May 1962) is a British scientist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

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Austin Gerard Smith

Austin Gerard Smith (born 1960) is a professor at the University of Exeter and director of its Living Systems Institute.

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Azim Surani

Azim Surani (born 1945 in Kisumu, Kenya) is a Kenyan-British developmental biologist who has been Marshall–Walton Professor at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge since 1992, and Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research since 2013.

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Barry Dickson

Barry J. Dickson (born 14 August 1962) is an Australian neurobiologist who studies the development of neuronal networks in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

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Ben Feringa

Bernard Lucas Feringa (born 18 May 1951) is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis.

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.

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Biophysics

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Brian Kobilka

Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Brno

Brno (Brünn) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.

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Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organisation.

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Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist)

Carlos José Bustamante (born 1951 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American scientist.

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Caroline Dean

Dame Caroline Dean (born 2 April 1957) is a British plant scientist working at the John Innes Centre.

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Cell biology

Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells.

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Charles Weissmann

Charles Weissmann (born 14 October 1931) is a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist.

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Colleges of the University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is composed of 31 colleges in addition to the academic departments and administration of the central university.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is an academic medical center and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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Computer simulation

Computer simulation is the process of mathematical modelling, performed on a computer, which is designed to predict the behaviour of, or the outcome of, a real-world or physical system.

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Czech Academy of Sciences

The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences (founded in 1784) and the Emperor Franz Joseph Czech Academy for Sciences, Literature and Arts (founded in 1890).

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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David Hopwood

Sir David Alan Hopwood (born 19 August 1933) is a British microbiologist and geneticist.

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Developmental biology

Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop.

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Dirk Inzé

Dirk Inzé (born 19 October 1957) is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium).

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Douglas Koshland

Douglas E. Koshland is a professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Edward Trifonov

Edward Nikolayevich Trifonov (אדוארד טריפונוב, Эдуapд Тpифoнoв; b. March 31, 1937) is a Russian-born Israeli molecular biophysicist and a founder of Israeli bioinformatics.

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Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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Elliot Meyerowitz

Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is an American biologist.

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Emil Paleček

Emil Paleček (3 October 1930 – 30 October 2018) was a Czech biochemist, who researched how DNA can be used to diagnose genetic diseases.

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry.

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Erasmus MC

Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC or EMC) based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, affiliated with Erasmus University and home to its faculty of medicine, is the largest and one of the most authoritative scientific University Medical Centers in Europe.

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Eric F. Wieschaus

Eric Francis Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.

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Erich Nigg

Erich Nigg (born 28 November 1952 in Uster) is a Swiss cell biologist.

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ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland.

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European Institute of Oncology

The European Institute of Oncology (Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, IEO) is a non-profit private-law comprehensive cancer centre located in Milan, Italy.

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European Molecular Biology Organization

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is a professional, non-profit organization of more than 1,800 life scientists.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

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François Gros

François Gros (24 April 1925 – 18 February 2022) was a French biologist and one of the pioneers of cellular biochemistry in France.

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Frances Ashcroft

Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist.

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Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist.

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Fraser Stoddart

Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born 24 May 1942) is a British-American chemist who is Chair Professor in Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, formerly known as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and also known as Fred Hutch or The Hutch, is a cancer research institute established in 1975 in Seattle, Washington.

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French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.

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Friedhelm Hildebrandt

Friedhelm Hildebrandt (born February 11, 1957) is the William E. Harmon Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Boston Children's Hospital.

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Gary Ruvkun

Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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Günter Blobel

Günter Blobel (May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction.

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Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.

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Gurdon Institute

The Gurdon Institute (officially the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) is a research facility at the University of Cambridge, specialising in developmental biology and cancer biology.

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Hans Clevers

Johannes (Hans) Carolus Clevers (born 27 March 1957) is a Dutch molecular geneticist, cell biologist and stem cell researcher.

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Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Heredity

Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.

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Horace Freeland Judson

Horace Freeland Judson (April 21, 1931 – May 6, 2011) was a journalist and later with more prominence a historian of molecular biology including authoring several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Iain Donald Campbell

Iain Donald Campbell (24 April 1941 – 5 March 2014) was a Scottish biophysicist and academic.

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Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) is an independent biomedical research organisation founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.

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Jack W. Szostak

Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, University Professor at the University of Chicago, former Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

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James Watson

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

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Jan-Michael Peters

Jan-Michael Peters (born 16 August 1962 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is a cell- and molecular biologist.

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Jeffery Errington

Jeff Errington FRS, FMedSci is a British microbiologist, and Director of the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology (CBCB), at Newcastle University.

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Joan A. Steitz

Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Joan Massagué

Joan Massagué (born April 30, 1953), is a Spanish biologist and the current director of the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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John Gurdon

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.

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John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910.

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John T. Lis

John T. Lis (born in Willimantic, Connecticut) is the Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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Jules A. Hoffmann

Jules Alphonse Nicolas Hoffmann (born 2 August 1941) is a French biologist.

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Kai Simons

Kai Simons is a Finnish professor of biochemistry and cell biology and physician, living and working in Germany.

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Karolinska Institute

The Karolinska Institute (KI; Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally.

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Kim Kimoon

Kim Kimoon (born 1954) is a South Korean chemist and professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH).

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Kim Nasmyth

Kim Ashley Nasmyth (born 18 October 1952) is an English geneticist, the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), and former head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

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Klaus Rajewsky

Klaus Rajewsky (born 12 November 1936 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German immunologist, renowned for his work on B cells.

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Kurt Wüthrich

Kurt Wüthrich (born 4 October 1938 in Aarberg, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules.

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Linda Partridge

Professor Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing (biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

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Lumír Krejčí

Lumír Krejčí (born 30 March 1972 in Slavičín) is a Czech biochemist.

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Manolis Kellis

Manolis Kellis (Μανώλης Καμβυσέλλης; born 1977) is a professor of Computer Science and Computational Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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Marek Mlodzik

Marek Mlodzik is the Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and also holds professorships in Oncological Sciences and Ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

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Mark Ptashne

Mark Ptashne (born June 5, 1940, in Chicago) is a molecular biologist.

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Masaryk University

Masaryk University (MU) (Masarykova univerzita; Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Matthias Hentze

Matthias Werner Hentze (born 25 January 1960 in Wiedenbrück, Germany) is a German scientist.

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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997.

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) is a biology research institute located in Dresden, Germany.

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology

The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie) is located in Dortmund, next to the Technical University of Dortmund.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Meinrad Busslinger

Meinrad Busslinger (born 30 July 1952) is a biochemist and immunologist, renown for his work on B cells.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City.

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Mendel Museum of Masaryk University

Mendel Museum (Mendelovo muzeum) has been an institution of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, since 2007. Mendel Lectures and Mendel Museum of Masaryk University are Gregor Mendel and Masaryk University.

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Mendelian inheritance

Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popularized by William Bateson. Mendel Lectures and Mendelian inheritance are Gregor Mendel.

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Michael N. Hall

Michael Nip Hall (born 12 June 1953) is an American-Swiss molecular biologist and professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

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Michael Rosbash

Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist.

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Michael Rossmann

Michael G. Rossmann (30 July 1930 – 14 May 2019) was a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of a human common cold virus to an atomic level.

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Microbiology

Microbiology is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular (single-celled), multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or acellular (lacking cells).

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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic)

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (MEYS,; MŠMT ČR) is a government ministry that was established in 1969.

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Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions.

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

The Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is a research institute in Cambridge, England, involved in the revolution in molecular biology which occurred in the 1950–60s.

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Nancy Kleckner

Nancy Kleckner is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology at Harvard University and principal investigator at the Kleckner Laboratory at Harvard University.

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Newcastle University

Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Osaka University

, abbreviated as OU or, is a national research university in Osaka, Japan.

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Patrick Sung

Patrick Sung is an American professor of structural biology and biochemistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

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Paul L. Modrich

Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Peter Donnelly

Sir Peter James Donnelly (born 15 May 1959) is an Australian-British mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, and the CEO of Genomics PLC.

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Peter Walter

Peter Walter (born December 5, 1954) is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist.

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.

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Purdue University

Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.

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Randy Schekman

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.

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Refectory

A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions.

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Research Institute of Molecular Pathology

The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a biomedical research center, which conducts curiosity-driven basic research in the molecular life sciences.

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Richard Henderson (biologist)

Richard Henderson (born 19 July 1945) is a British molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules.

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Richard Losick

Richard Marc Losick (born 1943) is an American molecular biologist.

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Richard M. Durbin

Richard Michael Durbin (born 1960) is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.

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Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York.

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Roel Nusse

Roeland "Roel" Nusse (born 9 June 1950, Amsterdam) is a professor at Stanford University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Rudolf Jaenisch

Rudolf Jaenisch (born on April 22, 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

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Sarah Tishkoff

Sarah Anne Tishkoff (born December 26, 1965) is an American geneticist and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor in the Department of Genetics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Shizuo Akira

(born January 27, 1953, in Higashiōsaka) is a professor at the Department of Host Defense, Osaka University, Japan.

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Simon Boulton

Simon Joseph Boulton is a British scientist who has made important contributions to the understanding of DNA repair and the treatment of cancer resulting from DNA damage.

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South Moravian Region

The South Moravian Region (Jihomoravský kraj;,; Juhomoravský kraj), or just South Moravia, is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the south-western part of its historical region of Moravia (an exception is Jobova Lhota which traditionally belongs to Bohemia).

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St Thomas's Abbey, Brno

St Thomas's Abbey (or the Königskloster) (Starobrněnský klášter) is an Augustinian abbey and church located in Brno in the Czech Republic. Mendel Lectures and St Thomas's Abbey, Brno are Gregor Mendel.

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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Stanislas Leibler

Stanislas Leibler (born 1957) is a French-American theoretical and experimental biologist and physicist.

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Stephen C. West

Stephen Craig West FRS (born 11 April 1952) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist specialising in research on DNA recombination and repair.

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Stephen J. Benkovic

Stephen James Benkovic is an American chemist known for his contributions to the field of enzymology.

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Stephen Jackson (biologist)

Sir Stephen Philip Jackson, FRS, FMedSci (born 17 July 1962) is the Frederick James Quick Professor of Biology.

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Steven A. Benner

Steven Albert Benner (born October 23, 1954) is an American chemist.

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Steven Henikoff

Steven Henikoff is a scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and an HHMI Investigator.

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Steven McKnight

Steven Lanier McKnight is a professor and former chair of the department of biochemistry at UT Southwestern.

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Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is a biomedical research organization that conducts basic research on genes and proteins that control fundamental processes in living cells to analyze diseases and find keys to their causes, treatment, and prevention.

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Susan Lindquist

Susan Lee Lindquist, ForMemRS (June 5, 1949 – October 27, 2016) was an American professor of biology at MIT specializing in molecular biology, particularly the protein folding problem within a family of molecules known as heat-shock proteins, and prions.

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Susumu Tonegawa

is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity.

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Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.

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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel.

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Thomas Cech

Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.

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Tim Hunt

Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, (born 19 February 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist.

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Tim Mitchison

Timothy John Mitchison is a cell biologist and systems biologist and Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School in the United States.

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Titia de Lange

Titia de Lange (born 11 November 1955, in Rotterdam) is the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research, the Leon Hess professor and the head of Laboratory Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University.

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Tom Misteli

Tom Misteli is a Swiss-born (Solothurn) cell biologist who has pioneered the field of genome cell biology.

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Tom Rapoport

Tom Abraham Rapoport (born June 17, 1947) is a German-American cell biologist who studies protein transport in cells.

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Toxicology

Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating exposures to toxins and toxicants.

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Ueli Schibler

Ueli Schibler (born June 16, 1947) is a Swiss biologist, chronobiologist and a professor at the University of Geneva.

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Université Laval

italic (English: Laval University) is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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University of Basel

The University of Basel (Latin: Universitas Basiliensis, German: Universität Basel) is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Cologne

The University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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University of Geneva

The University of Geneva (French: Université de Genève) is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.

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University of Haifa

The University of Haifa (אוניברסיטת חיפה, جامعة حيفا) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.

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University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States.

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University of Strasbourg

The University of Strasbourg (Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers.

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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas.

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University of Zurich

The University of Zurich (UZH, Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Venki Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist.

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Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie

VIB is a research institute located in Flanders, Belgium.

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Walter Bodmer

Sir Walter Fred Bodmer (born 10 January 1936) is a German-born British human geneticist.

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Walter Jakob Gehring

Walter Jakob Gehring (20 March 1939 – 29 May 2014) was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

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Walter Salzburger

Walter Salzburger (born 1 January 1975) is an Austrian-Swiss zoologist and evolutionary biologist and Professor at the Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, of the University of Basel in Switzerland.

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Wellcome Sanger Institute

The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom.

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Whitehead Institute

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States that is dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research.

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Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 24 June 1962) is a Chinese biophysicist well known for his contributions to the fields of single-molecule biophysical chemistry, coherent Raman Imaging and single-molecule genomics.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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See also

2003 establishments in the Czech Republic

Annual events in the Czech Republic

Brno

Genetics education

Gregor Mendel

Masaryk University

Spring (season) events in the Czech Republic

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel_Lectures

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