Programme of Mendel Lectures 2005/2006


In englischer Sprache

Monday, 3 October 2005, 5:00 p.m.
Professor Steven McKnight
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
"Schizophrenia, Stem Cells and Sprouty Signaling"

Thursday, 10 November 2005, 5:00 p.m.
Professor Kim Nasmyth
Director, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
"Molecules behind Mendel's laws of Heredity: How cohesin holds sister DNAs together during mitosis and meiosis"

Thursday, 30 March 2006, 5:00 p.m.
Dr Richard Henderson
Director, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
"High resolution electron microscopy in biological structure determination"

Thursday, 6 April 2006, 5:00 p.m.
Dr Jiri Bartek
Institute of Tumour Biology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
"DNA damage response: Molecular mechanisms and relevance for cancer"

Thursday, 13 April 2006, 5:00 p.m.
Professor Václav Paèes
President, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
"On the Origin of Life on Earth"

Thursday, 18 May 2006, 5:00 p.m.
Professor Adrian Bird
Buchanan Professor of Genetics and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
"Proteins that read the DNA methylation signal"

This project is supported by the Southern Moravian Region (Jihomoravský kraj).