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Mendel Lectures

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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]

157 relations: Aarhus University, Aaron Ciechanover, Ada Yonath, Adrian Bird, Alec Jeffreys, Andrea Musacchio, Angelika Amon, Anne McLaren, Anthony A. Hyman, Austin Gerard Smith, Azim Surani, Barry Dickson, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Brandeis University, British Council, Brno, California Institute of Technology, Cancer Research UK, Carlos Bustamante, Cell biology, Charles Weissmann, Colleges of the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, Columbia University Medical Center, Computer simulation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, David Hopwood, Developmental biology, DNA, Douglas Koshland, Edward Trifonov, Elizabeth Blackburn, Elliot Meyerowitz, Erasmus MC, Erich Nigg, ETH Zurich, European Institute of Oncology, European Molecular Biology Organization, Evolutionary biology, Frances Ashcroft, Francis Crick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, French Academy of Sciences, Gary Ruvkun, Günter Blobel, Genetics, George Washington University, Gregor Mendel, ..., Gurdon Institute, Hans Clevers, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Heredity, Horace Freeland Judson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Iain Donald Campbell, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jack W. Szostak, James Watson, Jan-Michael Peters, Jeffery Errington, Joan A. Steitz, Joan Massagué, John Gurdon, John Innes Centre, Jules A. Hoffmann, Kai Simons, Karolinska Institute, Kim Nasmyth, Kurt Wüthrich, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Linda Partridge, Mark Ptashne, Masaryk University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mendel Museum of Masaryk University, Mendelian inheritance, Michael N. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael Rossmann, Microbiology, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic), Molecular biology, Nancy Kleckner, Newcastle University, Nobel Prize, Olivier Voinnet, Osaka University, Paul L. Modrich, Paul Nurse, Pennsylvania State University, Peter Donnelly, Peter Walter, Physiology, Purdue University, Refectory, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Richard Henderson (biologist), Richard Losick, Richard M. Durbin, Rockefeller University, Ronald Plasterk, Shizuo Akira, Simon Boulton, South Moravian Region, St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Stanislas Leibler, Stephen C. West, Stephen J. Benkovic, Stephen Jackson (scientist), Steven A. Benner, Steven Henikoff, Steven McKnight, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Susan Lindquist, Svante Pääbo, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Tim Hunt, Tim Mitchison, Titia de Lange, Tom Misteli, Tom Rapoport, Toxicology, Ueli Schibler, Université Laval, University College London, University of Basel, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Diego, University of Cambridge, University of Cologne, University of Edinburgh, University of Geneva, University of Haifa, University of Leicester, University of Oxford, University of Rochester, University of Strasbourg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Zurich, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Walter Bodmer, Walter Jakob Gehring, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust, Whitehead Institute, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Yale University. Expand index (107 more) »

Aarhus University

Aarhus University (Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university 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 best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome.

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Adrian Bird

Sir Adrian Peter Bird, 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, who developed 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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Andrea Musacchio

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

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Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon, Ph.D. (b. 1967) is 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, DBE, FRS, FRCOG (26 April 1927 – 7 July 2007) was a leading figure in developmental biology.

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Anthony A. Hyman

Anthony Arie Hyman (born 27 May 1962) FRS is a British scientist and professor 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 in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

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Azim Surani

Azim Surani (born 1945 in Kisumu, Kenya) is a 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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Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called 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 the approaches and methods of physics to study biological systems.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston.

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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 the second largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.

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Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

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Carlos Bustamante

Carlos José Bustamante (born 1951 in Lima, Peru) is an American scientist.

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Cell biology

Cell biology (also called cytology, from the Greek κυτος, kytos, "vessel") is a branch of biology that studies the structure and function of the cell, the basic unit of life.

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Charles Weissmann

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

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Colleges of the University of Cambridge

This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Columbia University Medical Center

Columbia University Herbert and Florence Irving Medical Center (CUMC) is an academic medical center and the largest campuses of New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

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Computer simulation

Computer simulation is the reproduction of the behavior of a system using a computer to simulate the outcomes of a mathematical model associated with said 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).The Academy is the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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David Hopwood

Sir David Alan Hopwood FRS (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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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.

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Douglas Koshland

Douglas E. Koshland Ph.D. is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at 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 currently the 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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Erasmus MC

The Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) 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." With 1320 beds it is the second largest hospital of the Netherlands, only 19 beds behind UMC Groningen.

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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 (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM university in the city of 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 organization of life scientists in Europe.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.

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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 a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 with James Watson, work which was based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Maurice Wilkins.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, also known as Fred Hutch or The Hutch, is a cancer research institute established in 1972 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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Gary Ruvkun

Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born 26 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 living organisms.

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George Washington University

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Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel (Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a scientist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia.

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Gurdon Institute

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 Carolus (Hans) Clevers (born 27 March 1957) is a professor in molecular genetics, a geneticist, physician, medical researcher who was the first to identify stem cells in the intestine and is one of the world's leading researchers on normal stem cells and their potential for regenerative therapy.

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Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University.

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Harvard University

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

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Heredity

Heredity 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 (21 April 1931 in Manhattan, New York – 6 May 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a historian of molecular biology and the author of 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, FRS (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 research organisation founded as a joint initiative of 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, 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, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.

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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 in Barcelona), is a 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 an English developmental biologist.

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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.

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Jules A. Hoffmann

Jules A. Hoffmann (born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist.

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Kai Simons

Kai Simons (born 24 May 1938) is a Finnish professor of biochemistry and cell biology 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 medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden.

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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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Kurt Wüthrich

Kurt Wüthrich (born October 4, 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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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, since then it remains a major medical research laboratory with a much broader focus.

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Linda Partridge

Dame Linda Partridge DBE FMedSci (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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Mark Ptashne

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

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Masaryk University

Masaryk University (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 research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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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, 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, Germany next to the Dortmund University of Technology.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

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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 New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital.

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Mendel Museum of Masaryk University

Mendel Museum has been an institution of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, since 2007.

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Mendelian inheritance

Mendelian inheritance is a type of biological inheritance that follows the laws originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866 and re-discovered in 1900.

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Michael N. Hall

Michael Nip Hall is an American and Swiss molecular biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum 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 (born 1930) is 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 (from Greek μῑκρος, mīkros, "small"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), 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 is a government ministry that was established in 1969.

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Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology which concerns the molecular basis of biological activity between biomolecules in the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA, proteins and their biosynthesis, as well as the regulation of these interactions.

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Nancy Kleckner

Nancy Kleckner is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology at Harvard University.

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Newcastle University

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

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Olivier Voinnet

Olivier Voinnet (born 1973) is a French biologist and professor of RNA biology at the ETH Zurich.

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Osaka University

, or, is a national university located in Osaka, Japan.

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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 or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Peter Donnelly

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

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Peter Walter

Peter Walter (born 5 December 1954) is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist and Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.

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Purdue University

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

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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, CH, FRS, FMedSci, HonFRSC (born 19 July 1945) is a Scottish molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules.

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Richard Losick

Richard Losick (born 1943) is an American molecular biologist whose research interests include RNA polymerase, sigma factors, regulation of gene transcription, and bacterial development, being especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis.

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Richard M. Durbin

Richard Michael Durbin, FRS, born, is a British computational biologist, Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Richard Durbin entry in the Wellcome Library archive.

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Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller University is a center for scientific research, primarily in the biological and medical sciences, that provides doctoral and postdoctoral education.

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Ronald Plasterk

Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk (born 12 April 1957) is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).

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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 an award-winning British scientist who has made major 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) 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 belongs to Bohemia).

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St Thomas's Abbey, Brno

St Thomas's Abbey (or the Königskloster) is an Augustinian church located in Brno in the Czech Republic.

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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Stanislas Leibler

Stanislas Leibler (born 1957) is a Polish 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 (born April 20, 1938) is an American chemist.

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Stephen Jackson (scientist)

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) has been a professor at Harvard University, ETH Zurich, and the University of Florida where he was the V.T. & Louise Jackson Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.

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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, Ph.D, is a professor and 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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Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics.

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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל Ha-Tekhniyon — Makhon Tekhnologi le-Yisrael) is a public research university in Haifa, Israel.

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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

Professor Timothy John "Tim" Mitchison, PhD, FRS is a British systems biologist.

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Titia de Lange

Titia de Lange (born 11 November 1955, in Rotterdam) is an American Cancer Society professor and head of Laboratory Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University.

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Tom Misteli

Tom Misteli, Ph.D. is a Swiss-born (Solothurn) cell biologist and pioneer in the field of genome cell biology.

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Tom Rapoport

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

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Toxicology

Toxicology is a 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

Université Laval (Laval University) is a French-language, public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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University of Basel

The University of Basel (German: Universität Basel) is located 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 research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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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 (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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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 on the top of 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 (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Rochester

The University of Rochester (U of R or UR) frequently referred to as Rochester, is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

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University of Strasbourg

The University of Strasbourg (Université de Strasbourg, Unistra or UDS) in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is the second largest university in France (after Aix-Marseille University), with about 46,000 students and over 4,000 researchers.

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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) is a medical education and biomedical research institution in the United States.

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University of Zurich

The University of Zurich (UZH, Universität Zürich), located in the city of Zürich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 25,000 students.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an American and British structural biologist of Indian origin.

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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 FRS HonFRSE (born 10 January 1936 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 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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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 biomedical research charity based in London, United Kingdom.

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Whitehead Institute

Founded in 1982, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962 in Beijing, China) is considered a founding father of single-molecule biophysical chemistry and single-molecule enzymology.

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Yale University

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

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References

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

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