Opening speech | lectures | concert

16.00 | opening speech by Martin Bareš, rector of Masaryk Univerzity 

16.20 | Gregor Mendel’s Reception in the World
Daniel Fairbanks (Utah Valley University, USA)

17.00 | Gregor Mendel's Grand International Journeys
Peter van Dijk (Keygene, NLD)

17.40 | Coffee break

18.15 | From Mendel to CRISPER: Genetics, Its Uses and Abuses Throughout History 
Marek Vácha (Charles University, Prague)

19.00 | Hugo Iltis: Mendel’s Biographer and Courageous Fighter Against Racism and Nazism
David Iltis

20.00 | Mass in the Basilica with a musical performance of Duruflé's Requiem
Mass celebrated by Marek Vácha, Requiem performed by Ensemble Versus

Workshop | lecture | museum tour | concert

10.00 - 13.00 | Workshop „Teaching Mendel and Genetics"
Lynn Chiu (University of Vienna, Austria) and Peter Sziemer (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien), Eva Chocholová and Eliška Svobodová (Masaryk University), Ines Méhu-Blantar (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien), Hana Svozilová (Masaryk University)

13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch 

14.00 - 15.00 | Museum tours
To book your place on the tour, please contact: asistent@mendelmuseum.muni.cz

15.30 | Concert in the Basilica "Composers of Mendel's time": František Musil, Pavel Josef Křížkovský, Leoš Janáček
Brno Philharmonic Choir Beseda Brněnská, tenor: Petr Levíček, harph: Pavla Kopecká, organ: Dagmar Kolářová, Petr Kolář. Directed by Petr Kolář

17.00 | Mendel Lecture: Supramolecular Latch: a New Chemical Tool for Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science
Kimoon Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)