200 years Gregor Mendel: of peas, cows and people (hybrid event)
BOKU Festsaal, Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, 1180 Wien
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Deadline: 06/03/2022
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General Information
Half Day Symposium | target audience: SCIENCE to PUBLIC
11. March 2022, 12:30 – 18:00
Venue: BOKU Festsaal, Gregor Mendel Strasse 33, 1180 Wien
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Opening
12:30 -13:00 Opening: Jagdhornbläser*innengruppe der BOKU “Gregor Mendel”
13:00 Welcome addresses by vice rector Christian Obinger, Gabor Meszaros and Hermann Buerstmayr
Scientific programme
Plant genetics
13:10 – 13:40 Brigitte Poppenberger (Technical University Munich, Germany) How genetics assists us in plant breeding – examples from sunflower
13:40 – 14:10 Sebastian Michel (BOKU, Vienna, Austria) Linking mendelian and quantitative genetics in plant breeding
Animal genetics
14:10 – 14:40 Tosso Leeb (University Bern, Switzerland) Following the legacy of Gregor Mendel: Studies on the inheritance of coat color in domestic animals
14:40 – 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 – 15:50 Alessandra Stella (National Research Council, Milano, Italy) Interpreting the sequence: challenges and opportunities of big data in genetic analysis
Human genetics
15:50 – 16:20 Johannes Zschocke (Medical University Innsbruck, Austria) Gregor Mendel and the concepts of dominance and recessiveness (online connected from Innsbruck)
Genetics in everyday life
16:20 – 17:00 Günther Mayr (ORF, Redaktion Wissenschaft, Austria) Wissenschaft versus Wut – Sind Gefühle Teil der DNA? | Emotionen aus der Spritze – Verständnis schaffen als Immunisierungskampagne gegen Halbwahrheiten (in German)
17:00 -18:00 Chill out and buffet
Exhibition
12:30- 18:00 AgriGenomics Poster Exhibition
The AgriGenomics PhD students display and are happy to explain posters of their PhD projects in plant breeding, animal breeding, genetics, genomics, metabolomics and phenomics.
Meeting organisers:
Department für Agrarbiotechnologie, IFA-Tulln
This symposium is supported by the project nr. ATCZ278, G. J. Mendel’s legacy to science, culture, and humanity, co-financed by Interreg Austria-Czech Republic. DE: ATCZ278, G. J. Mendels Vermächtnis für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Menschheit CZ: ATCZ278, Odkaz G. J. Mendela vědě, kultuře a lidstvu
