Mendel at 200 programme
On 20-21 July 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.
Wednesday 20th July
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
Thursday 21st July
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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