KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:
1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.
- The presentation language is English.
- If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.
Event Details
Mendel's Legacy in Science and Society:
history, biology, science education, medicine, and society
Website: https://www.mendel200-vienna.com/activities/mendel-symposium
You can now register to attend the symposium online (for free) here.
Time: 9:30-17:00 (CEST)
Program
Day 1, October 13th, Thursday
9:00 Sign-in
9:30 Gerd Müller (President of the KLI)
Presidential welcoming remarks
9:40 Greg Radick (University of Leeds)
The Gregor Johann of history and the Mendel of faith: Reflections for a bicentennial
10:20 Blanka Křížová (Mendel Museum)
G. J. Mendel – the Story of a Humble Genius
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20 Barbara Fischer (University of Vienna)
How Mendel became a scientist
12:00 Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University)
Social Mendelism
12:40 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 Maria Kronfeldner (Central European University)
Genes and us
14:40 Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University)
What is inherited and how?
15:20-15:40 coffee break
15:40 Isabella Sarto-Jackson (KLI)
Patchwork Minds: How Mendelian, Non-Mendelian, as well as Non-Genetic Inheritance Shape the Human Brain
16:20 Lynn Chiu (University of Vienna)
Engaging with the science of inheritance in informal science spaces
Day 2, October 14th, Friday
9:00 Sign-in
9:30 Barbara Fischer & Lynn Chiu
Welcome back!
9:40 Christian Bertsch (ISTA)
Teaching science as process and method of thinking – learnings from G. Mendel
10:20 Brian Donovan (BSCS)
Genetics education needs to move beyond Mendel to combat white supremacy
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20 Kostas Kampourakis (University of Geneva)
Getting Mendel right: How the stereotypical teaching of Mendelian genetics in schools distorts both science and history
12:00 Markus Hengstschläger (Medical University of Vienna)
Medical genetics - quo vadis?
12:40 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Round-table discussion (only in person)
This symposium is funded by the INTERREG AT-CZ GJM200 project:
G. J. Mendel’s Legacy to Science, Culture, and Humanity