#FanfareCiocarlia on #Mendel festival in #Brno. Pure brass love.

Mendel, considered the father of genetics, is the starting point of the scientific teaching of genetics. In the 21st century, should we teach Mendel and inheritance differently?

Watch our #MendelStories interview "Should we teach Mendel differently?" with Kostas Kampourakis

https://youtu.be/DQKHoP3kz8I #Mendel200 #Mendel #SciEdu #Genetics

Blanka Křížová, Director of the Mendel Museum at Brno, talks about the life and scientific achievements of Mendel in our interview "A Life of Challenges" #MendelStories

https://youtu.be/CHJztXwbdAY #Mendel200 #Mendel #Brno #HistSci

Epidemics. Student revolutions. Educational reforms. Failed exams. Training in physics and evolutionary biology.

How did Vienna become Mendel?

Watch our #MendelStories interview with Barbara Fischer "Mendel's Vienna"

https://youtu.be/uSc5EjYr4OA #Mendel200 #Mendel #Vienna #Inheritance #Evolution

"Think very carefully about all the assumptions that go into Mendel's paper. And test them."

From genetics to extra-genetic inheritance, watch our #MendelStories interview "Inheritance beyond Mendel" with Eva Jablonka

https://youtu.be/mLjJOOUo4lg #Mendel200 #Mendel #Genetics #Inheritance #Evolution #ExtrageneticInheritance #ExtendedInheritance

I watched excerpts of "Inherit the Wind" (1960) on youtube today in preparation for a lecture on "Mendelian Extensions" at Tufts tomorrow. It's so clear that the anti-intellectual, anti-Darwinian sentiment is still so strong in the US. I'd rather not tiptoe around those who won't accept a rational, scientific explanation for complex adaptations and the senses. Rant. #Genetics #Genomics #Darwin #Mendel #ScopesTrial #Tennessee #Adaptation #Selection #Biology

The videos of our #Mendel200 KLI Mendel Symposium are now out!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtX7tFfRH-obZf90abmAOFAXXAkNNFXCM #Mendel #GregorMendel

I want to know his YDNA & mtDNA haplogroups! #genealogy #genedons #DNA @geneadons #Mendel https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/30/1142202365/gregor-mendel-genetics-dna-analyzed?

@pseudacris Great perspective! I don't teach Mendelism, per se, in my university genetics class. And emphasize their complex role in producing traits. But it's already ingrained by the time I get them in my class. I'll head to the library tomorrow to check out his book "Making sense of genes".

Don't forget your hashtags...
#Genetics #ScienceEducation #Mendel

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Hoy en la @unicomplutense@twitter.com la @segenetica@twitter.com celebra el bicentenario de Gregor #Mendel y el cinquentenario de la SEG, la Sociedad Española de Genética. En @BiologiaUcm@twitter.com a partir de las 10:00. Yo me lo voy a perder pero si tú puedes ir, no te lo pierdas! Grandes ponentes y genetistas⬇️

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LluisMontoliu/status/1603631927939825665

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Nos acaban de llegar al @CNB_CSIC@twitter.com sendos ejemplares del libro sobre Gregor #Mendel en el año del bicentenario de su nacimiento, editado por C. Ruiz-Rejón, R. Navajas-Pérez et al. @CanalUGR@twitter.com en el que @afernandezl28@twitter.com y yo tenemos un capítulo dedicado a las excepciones de sus leyes🧬

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LluisMontoliu/status/1597574128739176450

Severin Bachmayer, our student assistant for the #Mendel200 project and our "Meet #Mendel" actor, finally gets some respite from #scicomm to present his own research at the weekly #EvolBio dept meeting on #pregnancy, #aging, and hormonal pathways in the birthing process #partuition.

Good morning from #brno #CzechRepublic home of #Gödel #Mendel #AdolfLoos #Mach #RobertMusil among many many others.

Just in time for our final team dinner today. Photos from the #FacultyDay at the Faculty of Life Sciences #UniVienna are now out! This is our mascot-- Mendel's Giant Pea -- sitting behind the new biology building of University of Vienna. The department moved in last year, right before our #Mendel200 project started!

UniVienna project team with #Deck50's Ines Mehu-Blantar toasting with a special #Mendel champagne made specifically for this year by colleagues in Brno! #MendelsGiantPea

One of our last #MeetMendel performances. This interactive theater has 2 parts: 1/ GJ #Mendel himself transported to the present day to talk about his life, work, & reactions to current genetics. 2/ The actor revealing himself as a scientist & leading an open-ended Q&A about anything genetics. A rare opportunity for mid-high schoolers to go through the emotional & rational process of science AND freely address burning questions. Something they can't do in classrooms! #Mendel200 #NHMWien #Deck50

3) #darwin's contribution to this was conjecturing a biological mechanism that made this process happen.

He was lacking a lot of information, but he made an educated guess that turned out to be true. Well, *mostly true* because other, much less important mechanisms emerged lately.

First sign of vindication came with #Mendel's work. And then DNA was discovered, which gave the whole process a biochemical basis, something that had been conjectured by #maxplanck three decades earlier. /end

The crown jewel of the overall project is the reconstruction of #Mendel's greenhouse at his Abbey in #Brno, which will have a grand opening this weekend! #MendelGreenHouse

#INTERREG grants are an interesting way for scientists to work with partners in industry. They primarily fund projects that can lead to lasting cross-border collabs, esp in culture & infrastructure. Proposals are way lighter than normal research grants, but it's a notoriously admin-heavy process!

#Mendel200 2/n

Today is the 200th birth anniversary of #GregorMendel, the father of #Genetics & modern #PlantBreeding.🔬🍃

🌱#Mendel lived in #Brno 🇨🇿 where he cross-fertilized pea plants observing dominant and recessive phenotypes.

Find more on this website: https://gregormendel200.org/

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