Mendel at 200 programme

On 20-21 July 2022 we marked the bicentenary of Gregor Mendel's birth with a hybrid online / in-person two-day meeting in Bristol. 

Speakers included: J. Arvid Ågren, Berris Charnley, Ute Deichman, Ariane Dröscher, Allan Franklin, Sander Gliboff, Kersten Hall, Julie Hofer, Kostas Kampourakis, Robert Meunier, Staffan Müller-Wille, Samir Okasha, Charles Pence, Adam Rutherford, Rachell Sánchez-Rivera, Eleanor Sanderson, Yafeng Shan, Ida Stamhuis and Paul Weindling.

View the programme below.

10.30            Welcome (and chair for first session): Caroline Relton

10.40            A multitude of Mendels – George Davey Smith

11.10            August Weismann: A pioneer of genetics? – Ariane Dröscher

11.40            The 1900 “Rediscovery” of Mendel – Yafeng Shan

12.10            Agriculture and Mendelism – Berris Charnley

12.40            Lunch break

13.40            Rediscovering---and Unrediscovering---Gregor Mendel: His Life, Times, and Intellectual Context – Sander Gliboff

14.10            Pea Genetics - Julie Hofer

14.40            Wilhelm Johannsen’s Pure Lines and the Introduction of Mendelism – Robert Meunier

15.10            Break, with Mendel birthday cake

16.00            What findings did Mendel Present? – Allan Franklin

16.30            Darwin, Mendel, and Lysenko – Ute Deichmann

17.00            Eugenics and the misuse of Mendel – Adam Rutherford

19.30            Dinner for speakers and helpers

09.30            Gregor Mendel: Hybridist, geneticist, or what? – Staffan Müller-Wille  

10.00            Translating Mendel – Kersten Hall

10.30            Hugo Iltis: Mendel’s biographer and fighter against racism – Paul Weindling

11.00              Break

11.20            Chance and The Mendelians – Charles Pence

11.50            Hugo de Vries, Tine Tammes and early Mendelian statistics – Ida Stamhuis

12.20            The Mendelian gene – Kostas Kampourakis

12.50              Lunch

13.50            The Development of Eugenics in Latin America - Rachell Sánchez-Rivera

14.20            Transmission ratio distortion: Circumventing Mendel’s laws – Tom Price

14.50            Contemporary Genome Wide Association Study findings in the light of Mendelian inheritance – Gib Hemani

15.20              Break

15.50            Mendelian randomization – Eleanor Sanderson

16.20            The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution – Arvid Ågren

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