Mendel Lectures

The Mendel Lectures is a series of lectures^[1][2][3][4] given by the world's top scientists in genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, medicine and related areas which has been held in the refectory of the Augustian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Czech Republic since May 2003. The lectures were established to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by James Watson (1928) and Francis Crick (1916-2004). The Mendel Lectures are named in honour of Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), the founder of genetics, who lived and worked in the Augustinian Abbey in Brno 1843-1884. Based on his experiments conducted in the abbey between 1856 and 1863, Mendel established the basic rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. The Mendel Lectures are organized by the Masaryk University, the Mendel Museum, and the St. Anne's University Hospital Brno. The twentieth season of the Mendel Lectures is running at present. More than 130 top scientists, including many Nobel Prize winners, have visited Brno to give a Mendel Lecture, for example Tim Hunt, Jack W. Szostak, John Gurdon, Elizabeth Blackburn, Paul Nurse, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Günter Blobel, Kurt Wüthrich, Jules A. Hoffmann, Aaron Ciechanover, Ada Yonath, Paul Modrich, Eric F. Wieschaus, Fraser Stoddart, Ben Feringa, Brian K. Kobilka and others.

Mendel Lectures' logo with black outline

History

The first idea of the Mendel Lectures occurred during the international conference ´EMBO Workshop: Genetics after the Genome´ organised by Dieter Schweizer and Kim Nasmyth in 2002. Kim Nasmyth, at the time director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, and his wife Anna Nasmyth, Imma Mautner Markhof from Austria, Jan Motlík of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Jiřina Relichová of the Masaryk University prepared and organized the very first series of Mendel Lectures. They named the series „The Road to the DNA“ and focused the lectures on the historical context of genetics. The two first speakers, Sir Walter Bodmer from Oxford and Charles Weissmann from London, gave their talks in the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno on May 13, 2003. Subsequent series have addressed more topical scientific findings. Since 2003, more than 130 top scientists, including many Nobel Prize winners, have visited Brno to give a Mendel Lecture.

The Mendel Lectures are also connected with the establishment of the Mendel Museum and revitalization of scientific activities in the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno in 2003 in the event of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The British Council donated a copy of the original photograph of James Watson and Francis Crick and a copy of their model of DNA from 1953 is on loan from Gustav Ammerer to the Mendel Museum.

Initially, the Mendel Lectures were financially supported by the geneticist Gustav Ammerer from Vienna through his charity Vereinigung zur Förderung der Genomforschung, by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and by the British Council. Realization of the Mendel Lectures have been also supported by the Masaryk University, Authority of the South Moravian Region, the City of Brno, and the IMP Vienna. Between 2012 and 2014 the lectures were funded by the grant of the Czech Ministry of Education and the European Union (project Pluricell). Since 2015, the Mendel Lectures are supported by the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne's University Hospital Brno and its project ICRC. From 2016 Masaryk University established Seminar Series and contributes with an essential financial funding.

Present

The Mendel Lectures are now mainly focused on combining cutting-edge interdisciplinary approaches, technologies and methods of biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, computational modelling, imaging, microbiology, cell biology, physiology, genetics, toxicology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology and medicine.

The program of the Mendel Lectures is prepared by a scientific committee composed of Aaron Ciechanover, Simon Boulton, Kim Nasmyth, Lumír Krejčí and Vít Bryja. The Mendel Lectures are now organized by Lumír Krejčí, Kamil Paruch and Gabriela Pavlíková from the Masaryk University.

List of speakers

Series	Nr.	Date	Speaker	Institution	Lecture title	Nobel	Notes
1	1	May 13, 2003	Sir Walter Bodmer	Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK	"The human genome: Past, present & future"
1	2	May 13, 2003	Charles Weissmann	Institute of Neurology, London, UK	"The role of DNA in prion diseases"
1	3	June 5, 2003	Horace Judson	George Washington University, USA	"Before the structure: The roots of the evolution in biology"
1	4	September 29, 2003	Sir Tim Hunt	Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall Laboratories, UK	"Cells and their division"	Nobel prize 2001	[5]
1	5	October 16, 2003	Sir David Hopwood	John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK	"Fifty years of Streptomyces genetics: Implications for antibiotic discovery"
1	6	October 30, 2003	Anne McLaren	The Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK, Cambridge, UK	"Mendel and Michurin today"
1	7	November 11, 2003	Emil Paleček	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno	"DNA double helix in Czechoslovakia. Electrochemical DNA sensors"
1	8	November 11, 2003	Georgii Georgiev	Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia	"Some achievements of Russian molecuar genetics between double helix and human genome"
1	9	December 9, 2003	François Gros	Académie des Sciences, Paris, France	"From the double helix to genomics and beyond"
2	10	October 7, 2004	Edward Trifonov	University of Haifa, Israel	"The nature and organisation of genomes, their sequence structure and evolution"
2	11	October 21, 2004	Jack W. Szostak	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, USA	"The origin of life and the emergence of Darwinian evolution"	Nobel prize 2009	[6]
2	12	November 18, 2004	Barry Dickson	Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria	"Wired for sex: How reproductive behaviours are programmed into a fly’s brain"
2	13	March 17, 2005	Ernst Hafen	University of Zurich, Switzerland	"Genetic dissection of insulin signalling and growth in drosophila"
2	14	April 20, 2005	Marc-André Sirard	Université Laval, Quebec, Canada	"Gene expression in bovine oocytes and embryos: Prospect and challenges"
2	15	May 5, 2005	Sir Alec Jeffreys	University of Leicester, UK	"Genetic fingerprinting and beyond"
3	16	October 3, 2005	Steven McKnight	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA	"Schizophrenia, stem cells and sprouty signaling"
3	17	November 10, 2005	Kim Nasmyth	Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria	"Molecules behind Mendel’s laws of heredity: How cohesin holds sister DNAs together during mitosis and meiosis"
3	18	March 30, 2006	Richard Henderson	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
3	19	April 6, 2006	Jiri Bartek	Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark	"DNA damage response: Molecular mechanisms and relevance for cancer"
3	20	April 20, 2006	Václav Pačes	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague	"On the origin of life on Earth"
3	21	May 4, 2006	Susan Lindquist	MIT, Cambridge, USA / Whitehead Institute / HHMI	"Prion proteins and new paradigm epigenetics"
3	22	May 18, 2006	Adrian Bird	Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK	"Proteins that read DNA methylaton signal"
4	23	October 12, 2006	John Gurdon	Wellcome/CRC Institute, University of Cambridge, UK	"Nuclear reprogramming as a route to cell replacement"	Nobel Prize 2012	[7]
4	24	October 26, 2006	Ronald Plasterk	Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht	"miRNAs for animal development"
4	25	October 31, 2006	Elizabeth Blackburn	University of California, San Francisco, USA	"Responses of cells and organisms to altered telomere maintenance"	Nobel Prize 2009	[8]
4	26	November 9, 2006	Rodney Rothstein	Columbia University, New York, USA	"Choreography of the DNA damage response in budding yeast"
4	27	April 19, 2007	Wilhelm Ansorge	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	"Genomes, proteomes and single cell analysis"
4	28	April 26, 2007	Richard Losick	Harvard University, Boston, USA	"Surprises in how microbes cope with uncertainty"
4	29	May 10, 2007	Jan Ellenberg	EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany	"Imaging how living cells divide: From single proteins to genome wide screening"
5	30	October 2, 2007	Titia de Lange	Rockefeller University, New York, USA	"How telomeres deal with the DNA damage response"
5	31	November 8, 2007	Walter Jakob Gehring	University of Basel, Switzerland	"The master control gene of eye development and the evolution of light reception"
5	32	November 29, 2007	Svante Pääbo	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany	"Of humans, neanderthals and apes"	Nobel prize 2022
5	33	March 6, 2008	Elliot Meyerowitz	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA	"Plant stem cells: Live imaging and computational models of the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem"
5	34	April 10, 2008	Stephen Craig West	Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall Laboratories, UK	"DNA strand-break repair and relationship to human disease"
5	35	April 17, 2008	Richard M. Durbin	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK	"Sequencing hundreds of human genomes"
5	36	May 5, 2008	Sir Paul Nurse	Rockefeller University, New York, USA	"The great ideas of biology"	Nobel Prize 2001	[9]
6	37	October 9, 2008	Jan-Michael Peters	Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria	"How cohesin controls sister chromatid cohesion and transcription"
6	38	November 20, 2008	Andrea Musacchio	FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation / European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy	"Molecular bases of chromosome segregation"
6	39	March 29, 2009	Jonas Frisén	Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden	"New neurons in old brains"
6	40	May 7, 2009	Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK	"What structures of the ribosome have revealed about its central role in translating genetic information"	Nobel Prize 2009	[10]
6	41	May 14, 2009	Frances Ashcroft	University of Oxford, UK	"Neonatal diabetes: From ion channel to disease"
6	42	May 21, 2009	Walter Keller [de]	University of Basel, Switzerland	"3´end processing of messenger RNA precursors and RNA quality control"
7	43	October 15, 2009	Meinrad Busslinger	Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria	"Lineage commitment and developmental plasticity of lymphocytes"
7	44	October 22, 2009	Jason Chin	The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK	"New genetic codes"
7	45	November 23, 2009	James E. Haber	Brandeis University, Waltham, USA	"Multiple mechanisms to repair a broken chromosome"
7	46	April 29, 2010	Azim Surani	Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK	"Germ cell specification in mice"
7	47	May 13, 2010	Kai Simons	Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany	"Cell membrane organisation and lipid rafts"
7	48	May 27, 2010	Ueli Schibler	University of Geneva, Switzerland	"Circadian gene expression in mammals: How does the brain talk to the body?"
8	49	October 21, 2010	Michael N. Hall	University of Basel, Switzerland	"TOR signaling in growth and metabolism"
8	50	November 4, 2010	Iain Campbell	University of Oxford, UK	"Cell migration and protein-protein interactions"
8	51	April 7, 2011	Linda Partridge	University College London, UK	"The new biology of ageing"
8	52	April 14, 2011	David John Sherratt	University of Oxford, UK	"A passion for DNA"
8	53	May 5, 2011	Steven Henikoff	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA	"Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics"
8	54	May 12, 2011	Hans Clevers	Netherlands Institute of Developmental Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands	"Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and cancer"
8	55	May 26, 2011	Jeffery Errington	Newcastle University, UK	"L-form bacteria and the origins of life"
9	56	October 6, 2011	John Diffley	Cancer Research UK, London, UK	"How Mendel's genes are copied"
9	57	October 13, 2011	Timothy John Mitchison	Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA	"How does a large cell find its center?"
9	58	November 10, 2011	Jürgen Knoblich	Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna, Austria	"Proliferation control and tumorigenesis in stem cell lineages of the nervous system: Lessons from Drosophila and mouse genetics"
9	59	March 8, 2012	Angelika Amon	MIT, Cambridge, USA	"Causes and consequences of aneuploidy"
9	60	March 22, 2012	Anthony A. Hyman	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany	"Cytoplasmic organization through phase transitions"
9	61	April 19, 2012	Roland Kanaar	Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands	"How DNA recombination maintains genome integrity"
9	62	May 10, 2012	Óscar Fernández-Capetillo	Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain	"Exploring the role of replicative stress in cancer and ageing"
9	63	May 24, 2012	Douglas E. Koshland	University of California, Berkeley, USA	"Preventing chromosomes from going rogue"
10	64	October 8, 2012	Gary Ruvkun	Simches Research Center, Boston, USA	"An animal surveillance pathway for microbial inhibition of conserved cellular components and induction of defense responses"
10	65	October 8, 2012	Josef Jiricny	University of Zurich, Switzerland	"FAN 1, a novel enzyme involved in the processing of cisplatin adducts in DNA"
10	66	October 8, 2012	Jan Hoeijmakers	Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands	"DNA, the key molecule in cancer and ageing"
10	67	October 8, 2012	Jiri Lukas	Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark	"Spatial and temporal organization of genome maintenance"
10	68	October 9, 2012	Günter Blobel	Rockefeller University, New York, USA	"Molecular design of nature´s largest and most versatile channel anchored in the center of the nuclear pore"	Nobel Prize 1999	[11]
10	69	October 9, 2012	Julius Lukes	Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Ceske Budejovice	"RNA editing in trypanosomatid protists"
10	70	October 9, 2012	Jiri Friml	Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent, Belgium	"How cells make a plant: Role for directional auxin transport"
10	71	October 25, 2012	Nancy Kleckner	Harvard University, Cambridge, USA	"Meiotic recombination: The exception to, and the executor of, Mendel's laws"
10	72	March 14, 2013	Brenda S. Schulman	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA	"Twists and turns in ubiquitin conjugation cascades"
10	73	April 11, 2013	Tom Rapoport	Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA	"How the ER gets into shape"
10	74	April 18, 2013	Torben Heick Jensen	Aarhus University, Denmark	"Making and breaking RNA in human nuclei"		[12]
10	75	May 2, 2013	Simon Boulton	Cancer Research UK, South Mimms, UK	"Genome stability and the control of recombination"
10	76	May 9, 2013	Peter Walter	HHMI / University of California, San Francisco, USA	"The unfolded protein response in health and disease"
10	77	May 16, 2013	Stanislas Leibler	Rockefeller University, New York, USA	"Following in Mendel's footsteps: Statistical analysis of microbial behavioral phenotypes"
11	78	October 17, 2013	Peter Baumann	Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA	"Biogenesis and regulation of telomerase"
11	79	October 24, 2013	Carlos Bustamante	University of California, Berkeley, USA	"Grabbing the cat by the tail: How a viral molecular motor packages DNA"
11	80	November 21, 2013	Kay Hofmann	University of Cologne, Germany	"A common evolutionary basis for cell death pathways in animals, plants and fungi"
11	81	May 22, 2014	Joan Massagué Solé	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA	"Origins of metastatic traits"
12	82	October 30, 2014	Lorraine S. Symington	Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA	"Mechanisms of homologous recombination"
12	83	March 5, 2015	Herbert Waldmann	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany	"Biology oriented synthesis"
12	84	March 19, 2015	Kurt Wüthrich	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	"The colorful postgenomic world of proteins"	Nobel Prize 2002	[13]
12	85	April 2, 2015	Xiaoliang Sunney Xie	Harvard University, Cambridge, USA	"Life at the single molecule level: Single cell genomics"
12	86	April 9, 2015	Michael Rosbash	Brandeis University, Waltham, USA	"Biological time travels: Old and new circadian rhythm tales"	Nobel Prize 2017
12	87	May 21, 2015	Jules A. Hoffmann	University of Strasbourg, France	"Innate immunity: From flies to humans"	Nobel Prize 2011	[14]
12	88	May 28, 2015	Maria Jasin	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA	"Protecting the genome by homologous recombination"
13	89	October 1, 2015	Masaru Okabe	Osaka University, Japan	"The first “Green mice” and the mechanism of mammalian fertilization revised by gene-manipulated animals"
13	90	October 22, 2015	Aaron Ciechanover	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel	"The ubiquitin proteolytic system: From basic mechanisms thru human diseases and on to drug targeting"	Nobel Prize 2004	[15]
13	91	November 12, 2015	Michael G. Rosenfeld	HHMI / University of California, San Diego, USA / University of Rochester, USA	"Mendel's messengers: Enhancers and transcriptional programs"
13	92	March 3, 2016	Michael G. Rossmann	Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA	"A personal history of structural virology"
13	93	April 7, 2016	Steve Jackson	Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK	"Harnessing genetic principals to treat human disease"
13	94	May 5, 2016	Joan A. Steitz	HHMI / Yale University, New Haven, USA	"Viral and cellular noncoding RNAs: Insight into evolution"
13	95	May 19, 2016	Stephen J. Benkovic	Pennsylvania State University, USA	"On de novo purine biosynthesis: The purinosome"
14	96	September 22, 2016	Wolfgang Baumeister	Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany	"The Molecular Machinery of Intracellular Protein Degradation: Structural Studies ex situ and in situ"
14	97	November 10, 2016	Austin Smith	Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge / Wellcome–MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK	"Design Principles of Pluripotency"
14	98	March 2, 2017	Ada Yonath	Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel	"The Genetic Apparatus, from Mendel to Critical Issues in Contemporary Medicine"	Nobel Prize 2009
14	99	March 16, 2017	Peter Donnelly	Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford / Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, UK	"Meiosis, Recombination and the Origin of a Species"
14	100	March 23, 2017	Friedhelm Hildebrandt	Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA	"Chronic Kidney Disease: The Mendelian Surprise"
14	101	April 20, 2017	David Tollervey	Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK	"Lighting up RNA Interactions in Living Cells"
14	102	May 18, 2017	Paul Modrich	Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, USA	"Mechanisms in DNA Mismatch Repair"	Nobel Prize 2015
15	103	October 12, 2017	Erich Nigg	University of Basel, Switzerland	"Cell Cycle Control of Chromosome Segregation: Focus on Kinetochores and Centrosomes"
15	104	October 19, 2017	Shizuo Akira	Osaka University, Japan	"Toward Understanding the Mechanism of Fibrosis"
15	105	December 14, 2017	Gregory Hannon	Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK	"A Small RNA-based Innate Immune System Guards the Integrity of Germ Cell Genomes"
15	106	March 8, 2018	Elena Conti	Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Germany	"The RNA Exosome-Ribosome Connection: Coupling Synthesis to Degradation"
15	107	April 19, 2018	Tom Misteli	National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA	"The Cell Biology of the Genome"
15	108	May 3, 2018	Mark Ptashne	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA	"The Logic Of Gene Regulation"
15	109	May 17, 2018	Steven Benner	Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Alachua, USA	"Artificial Genetics and Evolution in the New Millennium"
16	110	October 4, 2018	Eric F. Wieschaus	Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, USA	"Genes and the Mechanics of Cell Shape"	Nobel Prize 1995
16	111	October 11, 2018	Rudolf Jaenisch	Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA	"Epigenetic Regulation in Development, Aging and Disease States"
16	112	October 18, 2018	Patrick Sung	Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, USA	"Mechanism of Homology-directed Chromosome Damage Repair in Eukaryotes"
16	113	March 14, 2019	Richard J. Davidson	Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA	"Well-being Is a Skill: Perspectives From Affective and Contemplative Neuroscience"
16	114	March 21, 2019	Emmanuelle Charpentier	Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany	"CRISPR-Cas9: a Bacterial Immune System Repurposed as a Transformative Genome Engineering Technology"	Nobel Prize 2020
16	115	May 2, 2019	Manolis Kellis	Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA	"From Genomics To Therapeutics: Uncovering And Manipulating The Genetic Circuitry of Human Disease"
16	116	May 16, 2019	Fraser Stoddart	Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA	"The Rise and Promise of Artificial Molecular Machines Based on the Mechanical Bond"	Nobel Prize 2016
16	117	May 23, 2019	Andrew G. Myers	Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA	"Progress Toward the Discovery of New Antibiotics with Efficacy Against Multi-drug Resistant Bacterial Pathogens"
16	118	May 30, 2019	Roel Nusse	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, USA	"Wnt Signaling and the Generation of New Cells in the Liver"
17	119	October 3, 2019	Stefan Knapp	SGC Frankfurt, Germany	"Challenges of selective targeting of protein kinases in cellular environments"
17	120	November 7, 2019	Andrés Aguilera	Department of Molecular Biology, University of Sevilla, Spain	"RNA-mediated chromatin regulation"
17	121	November 14, 2019	Caroline Dean	John Innes Centre Norwich, UK	"Antisense-mediated chromatin regulation"
17	122	November 21, 2019	Gerald P. Schatten	McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA	"Would Gregor Mendel be alarmed that designer babies walk among us?"
17	123	March 5, 2020	Adrian Krainer	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson School of Biological Sciences, USA	"From Base Pairs to Bedside: Antisense Therapeutics for Targeted Modulation of Splicing or NMD"
18	124	September 16, 2021	Andrew deMello	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	"Rise of the Micromachines: Biology on the Small Scale"
18	125	November 18, 2021	Marek Mlodzik	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA	"Wnt/Frizzled Planar Cell Polarity signaling in development and disease"
18	126	March 17, 2022	Ben Feringa	University of Groningen, Netherlands	"The Art of Building Small"	Nobel Prize 2016
19	127	October 13, 2022	Klaus Rajewsky	Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany	Role of the Antigen Receptor in Normal and Malignant B Cell Development
19	128	October 20, 2022	Matthias Hentze	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany	Exploring the Underground of the RBP World: Riboregulation
19	129	November 3, 2022	Kimoon Kim	Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)	Supramolecular Latch: a New Chemical Tool for Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science
19	130	March 2, 2023	Walter Salzburger	University of Basel, Switzerland	The non-gradual nature of explosive diversification in African cichlid fishes
19	131	March 23, 2023	Dirk Inzé	VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium	Engineering complex agronomic traits in crops
19	132	May 4, 2023	Brian K. Kobilka	Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA	Structural insights into G protein coupled receptor activation	Nobel Prize 2012
19	133	May 18, 2023	John T. Lis	Cornell University, USA	Architecture and mechanistic interplay of promoters and enhancers in controlling gene expression
20	134	October 12, 2023	Susumu Tonegawa	MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA	Molecular Genetics of the Immune and Nervous Systems--Antibody Diversity and Memory Engrams	Nobel Prize 1987
20	135	October 26, 2023	Amita Sehgal	Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA	Biology of Bedtime: Understanding the basis of sleep
20	136	March 21, 2024	Sarah A. Tishkoff	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA	Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa
20	137	April 11, 2024	Johannes C. Walter	Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA	Mechanisms of Vertebrate DNA Replication and Repair
20	138	April 18, 2024	Randy W. Schekman	Berkeley University of California, USA	Intercellular transfer of proteins and RNA
20	139	April 25, 2024	Thomas R. Cech	University of Colorado at Boulder, USA	That Magical Strand, RNA	Nobel Prize 1989