The Mendel Lectures is a series of lectures given by the world's top scientists in

genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar worki ...

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and phys ...

biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology ...

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, ...

medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, and Health promotion ...

and related areas which has been held in the

refectory A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries. The name derives from the La ...

of the Augustian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno,

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. Th ...

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 James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and ...

(1928) and

Francis Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical stru ...

(1916-2004). The Mendel Lectures are named in honour of

Gregor Johann Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel, OSA (; cs, Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brünn (''Brno''), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel wa ...

(1822-1884), the founder of

, 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 Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic info ...

, now referred to as the laws of

Mendelian inheritance Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later populari ...

. The Mendel Lectures are organized by the

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the sec ...

, the Mendel Museum, and the St. Anne's University Hospital Brno. The eighteenth season of the Mendel Lectures is running at present. More than 100 top scientists, including many

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfre ...

winners, have visited Brno to give a Mendel Lecture, for example

Tim Hunt Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, (born 19 February 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molec ...

, Jack W. Szostak,

John Gurdon Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka ...

Elizabeth Blackburn Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, ...

Paul Nurse Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alon ...

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an Indian-born British and American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". ...

, Günter Blobel, Kurt Wüthrich, Jules A. Hoffmann,

Aaron Ciechanover Aaron Ciechanover ( ; he, אהרן צ'חנובר; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. Biography Early ...

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath ( he, עדה יונת, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular ...

, Paul Modrich, Eric F. Wieschaus, Fraser Stoddart and others.

History

The first idea of the Mendel Lectures occurred during the international conference ´

EMBO Embo ( gd, Eurabol, IPA: �iaɾəpɔɫ̪ is a village in the Highland Council Area in Scotland and the former postal county of Sutherland, about north-northeast of Dornoch. On 16 July 1988, Embo declared itself independent from the rest of the ...

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 The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a biomedical research center, which conducts curiosity-driven basic research in the molecular life sciences. The IMP is located at the Vienna Biocenter in Vienna, Austria. The institute emplo ...

, and his wife Anna Nasmyth, Imma Mautner Markhof from Austria, Jan Motlík of the

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, cs, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes bac ...

and Jiřina Relichová of the

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

. 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 90 top scientists, including many

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 The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh la ...

donated a copy of the original photograph of

and

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 Vereinigung may refer to: *Astronomische Vereinigung Kärntens, the Carinthian Astronomical Association *Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas- und Wasserfaches, the German association for gas and water *Flugwissenschaftliche Vereinigung Aachen, Flight Rese ...

, by the

and by the

. Realization of the Mendel Lectures have been also supported by the

, Authority of the

South Moravian Region The South Moravian Region ( cs, Jihomoravský kraj; , ; sk, Juhomoravský kraj) is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the south-western part of its historical region of Moravia (an exception is Jobova Lhota which trad ...

, 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 establishe
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

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...

, computational modelling, imaging,

cell biology Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living a ...

physiology Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemic ...

toxicology Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating expos ...

developmental biology Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and differentiation of ste ...

evolutionary biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life fo ...

and

. The program of the Mendel Lectures is prepared by a scientific committee composed of

Simon Boulton Simon Joseph Boulton is a British scientist who has made important contributions to the understanding of DNA repair and the treatment of cancer resulting from DNA damage. He currently occupies the position of Senior Scientist and group leader ...

, Kim Nasmyth, Lumír Krejčí and Vít Bryja. The Mendel Lectures are now organized by Lumír Krejčí and Dominika Hobzová from the

, Lucie Vychodilová from the Mendel Museum, and St. Anne's University Hospital Brno.

List of speakers

{, class="wikitable" !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 , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , presi ...

, USA , ''"Before the structure: The roots of the evolution in biology"'' , , , - , 1 , 4 , September 29, 2003 , Sir

Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organization. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and was formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and t ...

, Clare Hall Laboratories, UK , ''"Cells and their division"'' , Nobel prize 2001 , , - , 1 , 5 , October 16, 2003 , Sir

David Hopwood Sir David Alan Hopwood (born 19 August 1933) is a British microbiologist and geneticist. Education Educated at Purbrook Park County High School and Lymm Grammar School, Hopwood gained his Bachelor of Arts degree from St John's College, Camb ...

John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910. It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and B ...

, Norwich, UK , ''"Fifty years of Streptomyces genetics: Implications for antibiotic discovery"'' , , , - , 1 , 6 , October 30, 2003 , Anne McLaren , The Wellcome Trust /

, Cambridge, UK , ''"Mendel and Michurin today"'' , , , - , 1 , 7 , November 11, 2003 ,

Emil Paleček Emil Paleček (3 October 1930 – 30 October 2018) was a Czech biochemist, who researched how DNA can be used to diagnose genetic diseases. Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be analysed by electrochemical research, contradicting p ...

, 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 The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...

, Paris, France , ''"From the double helix to genomics and beyond"'' , , , - , 2 , 10 , October 7, 2004 , Edward Trifonov ,

University of Haifa The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming I ...

, Israel , ''"The nature and organisation of genomes, their sequence structure and evolution"'' , , , - , 2 , 11 , October 21, 2004 , Jack W. Szostak ,

Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, f ...

, Boston, USA , ''"The origin of life and the emergence of Darwinian evolution"'' , Nobel prize 2009 , , - , 2 , 12 , November 18, 2004 ,

Barry Dickson Barry J. Dickson (born 14 August 1962) is an Australian neurobiologist who studies the development of neuronal networks in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Dickson is a group leader at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medic ...

, Vienna, Austria , ''"Wired for sex: How reproductive behaviours are programmed into a fly’s brain"'' , , , - , 2 , 13 , March 17, 2005 ,

Ernst Hafen Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975- ...

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 ...

, Switzerland , ''"Genetic dissection of insulin signalling and growth in drosophila"'' , , , - , 2 , 14 , April 20, 2005 , Marc-André Sirard ,

Université Laval Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Mont ...

, Quebec, Canada , ''"Gene expression in bovine oocytes and embryos: Prospect and challenges"'' , , , - , 2 , 15 , May 5, 2005 , Sir

Alec Jeffreys Sir Alec John Jeffreys, (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resol ...

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_la ...

, UK , ''"Genetic fingerprinting and beyond"'' , , , - , 3 , 16 , October 3, 2005 , Steven McKnight ,

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 18,800 employees, more than 2,900 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient vis ...

, Dallas, USA , ''"Schizophrenia, stem cells and sprouty signaling"'' , , , - , 3 , 17 , November 10, 2005 , Kim Nasmyth ,

, 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 Jiri ( ne, जिरी) is a municipality in Dolakha District in the Bagmati Province of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 13,638 people.. Jiri, which lies about 190 kilometers from Kathmandu, is the ma ...

, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark , ''"DNA damage response: Molecular mechanisms and relevance for cancer"'' , , , - , 3 , 20 , April 20, 2006 ,

Václav Pačes Václav () is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas. These forms are derived from the old Slavic/Czech form of this name: Venceslav. Nicknames are: Vašek, Vašík, Venca, Venda Fo ...

, Prague , ''"On the origin of life on Earth"'' , , , - , 3 , 21 , May 4, 2006 , Susan Lindquist , MIT, Cambridge, USA /

Whitehead Institute Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States that is dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research. It was founded as a fiscally indepen ...

/ HHMI , ''"Prion proteins and new paradigm epigenetics"'' , , , - , 3 , 22 , May 18, 2006 ,

Adrian Bird Sir Adrian Peter Bird, (born 3 July 1947) is a British geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. Bird has spent much of his academic career in Edinburgh, from receiving his PhD in 1970 to working at the ...

Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glax ...

Centre for Cell Biology,

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

, UK , ''"Proteins that read DNA methylaton signal"'' , , , - , 4 , 23 , October 12, 2006 ,

, Wellcome/CRC Institute,

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, UK , ''"Nuclear reprogramming as a route to cell replacement"'' , Nobel Prize 2012 , , - , 4 , 24 , October 26, 2006 ,

Ronald Plasterk Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk (; born 12 April 1957) is a Dutch scientist, entrepreneur and retired politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). He has earned a PhD degree in biology, specialised in molecular genetics. Being a former Minister of the Du ...

, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht , ''"miRNAs for animal development"'' , , , - , 4 , 25 , October 31, 2006 ,

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Fran ...

, San Francisco, USA , ''"Responses of cells and organisms to altered telomere maintenance"'' , Nobel Prize 2009 , , - , 4 , 26 , November 9, 2006
Rodney Rothstein
,

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

, New York, USA , ''"Choreography of the DNA damage response in budding yeast"'' , - , 4 , 27 , April 19, 2007 , Wilhelm Ansorge ,

ETH Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , a ...

, Switzerland , ''"Genomes, proteomes and single cell analysis"'' , , , - , 4 , 28 , April 26, 2007 ,

Richard Losick Richard Marc Losick ( ; born 1943) is an American molecular biologist. He is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, Boston, USA , ''"Surprises in how microbes cope with uncertainty"'' , , , - , 4 , 29 , May 10, 2007 , Jan Ellenberg ,

, Heidelberg, Germany , ''"Imaging how living cells divide: From single proteins to genome wide screening"'' , , , - , 5 , 30 , October 2, 2007 , Titia de Lange ,

Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a Private university, private Medical research, biomedical Research university, research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York (state), New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medica ...

, New York, USA , ''"How telomeres deal with the DNA damage response"'' , , , - , 5 , 31 , November 8, 2007 , Walter Jakob Gehring ,

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universitie ...

, Switzerland , ''"The master control gene of eye development and the evolution of light reception"'' , , , - , 5 , 32 , November 29, 2007 ,

Svante Pääbo Svante Pääbo (; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. In 1997, he became founding dir ...

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (german: Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Plan ...

, Leipzig, Germany , ''"Of humans, neanderthals and apes"'' , Nobel prize 2022 , , , - , 5 , 33 , March 6, 2008 ,

Elliot Meyerowitz Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is an American biologist. Career Meyerowitz did his undergraduate work at Columbia University (A.B. in biology, 1973), where he worked part-time in the laboratory of Cyrus Levinthal on combined microscopic a ...

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

, Pasadena, USA , ''"Plant stem cells: Live imaging and computational models of the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem"'' , , , - , 5 , 34 , April 10, 2008 ,

Stephen Craig West Stephen Craig West FRS (born 11 April 1952) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist specialising in research on DNA recombination and repair. He is known for pioneering studies on genome instability diseases including cancer. West obta ...

, Clare Hall Laboratories, UK , ''"DNA strand-break repair and relationship to human disease"'' , , , - , 5 , 35 , April 17, 2008 ,

Richard M. Durbin Richard Michael Durbin (born 1960) is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where he was previously ...

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. It is located on the Wellcome Ge ...

, Cambridge, UK , "Sequencing hundreds of human genomes" , , , - , 5 , 36 , May 5, 2008 , Sir

, New York, USA , ''"The great ideas of biology"'' , Nobel Prize 2001 , , - , 6 , 37 , October 9, 2008 ,

Jan-Michael Peters Jan-Michael Peters (born 16 August 1962 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is a cell- and molecular biologist. Since 2013, he is Scientific Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna. Early life and education Jan-M ...

, 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 The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consist ...

, Stockholm, Sweden , ''"New neurons in old brains"'' , , , - , 6 , 40 , May 7, 2009 , Sir

, 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 , , - , 6 , 41 , May 14, 2009 , Frances Ashcroft ,

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...

, UK , ''"Neonatal diabetes: From ion channel to disease"'' , , , - , 6 , 42 , May 21, 2009 , ,

, Switzerland , ''"3´end processing of messenger RNA precursors and RNA quality control"'' , , , - , 7 , 43 , October 15, 2009 , Meinrad Busslinger ,

, 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

,

Brandeis University Brandeis University is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jews, Jewish community, Brandeis was established on t ...

, 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 The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centur ...

, Switzerland , ''"Circadian gene expression in mammals: How does the brain talk to the body?"'' , , , - , 8 , 49 , October 21, 2010 , Michael N. Hall ,

, Switzerland , ''"TOR signaling in growth and metabolism"'' , , , - , 8 , 50 , November 4, 2010 , Iain Campbell ,

, UK , ''"Cell migration and protein-protein interactions"'' , , , - , 8 , 51 , April 7, 2011 ,

Linda Partridge Professor Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing ( biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Partridge is currently ...

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...

, UK , ''"The new biology of ageing"'' , , , - , 8 , 52 , April 14, 2011
David John Sherratt
,

, UK , ''"A passion for DNA"'' , , , - , 8 , 53 , May 5, 2011 , Steven Henikoff ,

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, formerly known as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and also known as Fred Hutch or The Hutch, is a cancer research institute established in 1975 in Seattle, Washington. History The center grew out ...

, Seattle, USA , ''"Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics"'' , , , - , 8 , 54 , May 12, 2011 ,

Hans Clevers Johannes (Hans) Carolus Clevers (born 27 March 1957) is a Dutch molecular geneticist, cell biologist and stem cell researcher. He became the Head of Pharma, Research and Early Development, and a member of the Corporate Executive Committee, of t ...

, Netherlands Institute of Developmental Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands , ''"Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and cancer"'' , , , - , 8 , 55 , May 26, 2011 , Jeffery Errington ,

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick unive ...

, UK , ''"L-form bacteria and the origins of life"'' , , , - , 9 , 56 , October 6, 2011
John Diffley
,

, London, UK , ''"How Mendel's genes are copied"'' , , , - , 9 , 57 , October 13, 2011 , Timothy John Mitchison ,

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools ...

, 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 Angelika Amon (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massach ...

, 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 __NOTOC__ The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) is a biology research institute located in Dresden, Germany. It was founded in 1998 and was fully operational in 2001. More than twenty research groups work in m ...

, Dresden, Germany , ''"Cytoplasmic organization through phase transitions"'' , , , - , 9 , 61 , April 19, 2012
Roland Kanaar
,

Erasmus Medical Center Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC or EMC) based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, affiliated with Erasmus University and home to its faculty of medicine, is the largest and one of the most authoritative scientific University Medical Centers ...

, 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 ,

, Berkeley, USA , ''"Preventing chromosomes from going rogue"'' , , , - , 10 , 64 , October 8, 2012 ,

Gary Ruvkun Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which ''lin-4'', t ...

, 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
,

, Switzerland , ''"FAN 1, a novel enzyme involved in the processing of cisplatin adducts in DNA"'' , , , - , 10 , 66 , October 8, 2012
Jan Hoeijmakers
,

, 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 ,

, New York, USA , ''"Molecular design of nature´s largest and most versatile channel anchored in the center of the nuclear pore"'' , Nobel Prize 1999 , , - , 10 , 69 , October 9, 2012
Julius Lukes
, Biology Centre,

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 ,

, 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 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research facility located in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, p ...

, Memphis, USA , ''"Twists and turns in ubiquitin conjugation cascades"'' , , , - , 10 , 73 , April 11, 2013 , Tom Rapoport ,

, Boston, USA , ''"How the ER gets into shape"'' , , , - , 10 , 74 , April 18, 2013
Torben Heick Jensen
,

Aarhus University Aarhus University ( da, Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra G ...

, Denmark , ''"Making and breaking RNA in human nuclei"'' , , , - , 10 , 75 , May 2, 2013 ,

, South Mimms, UK , ''"Genome stability and the control of recombination"'' , , , - , 10 , 76 , May 9, 2013 ,

Peter Walter Peter Walter (born December 5, 1954) is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist and is Director of the Bay Area Institute of Science at Altos Labs, Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He was a Howard Hu ...

, HHMI /

, San Francisco, USA , ''"The unfolded protein response in health and disease"'' , , , - , 10 , 77 , May 16, 2013 ,

Stanislas Leibler Stanislas Leibler (born 1957) is a French-American theoretical and experimental biologist and physicist. He is Systems Biology Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Gladys T. Perkin Professor and Head of the Laboratory ...

, 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 Carlos Bustamante may refer to: * Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist) * Carlos D. Bustamante, population geneticist * Carlos Bustamante (TV personality) * Carlos Bustamante (baseball) {{hndis, Bustamante, Carlos ...

, 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 The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

, 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 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. MSKCC is one of 52 National Cancer Institute� ...

, New York, USA , ''"Origins of metastatic traits"'' , , , - , 12 , 82 , October 30, 2014
Lorraine S. Symington
,

Columbia University Medical Center NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC), also known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), is an academic medical center and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. It includes C ...

, 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 ,

, Switzerland , ''"The colorful postgenomic world of proteins"'' , Nobel Prize 2002 , , - , 12 , 85 , April 2, 2015 , Xiaoliang Sunney Xie ,

, Cambridge, USA , ''"Life at the single molecule level: Single cell genomics"'' , , , - , 12 , 86 , April 9, 2015 , Michael Rosbash ,

, 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 The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ...

, France , ''"Innate immunity: From flies to humans"'' , Nobel Prize 2011 , , - , 12 , 88 , May 28, 2015
Maria Jasin
,

, New York, USA , ''"Protecting the genome by homologous recombination"'' , , , - , 13 , 89 , October 1, 2015 , Masaru Okabe ,

Osaka University , abbreviated as , is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Proje ...

, Japan , ''"The first “Green mice” and the mechanism of mammalian fertilization revised by gene-manipulated animals"'' , , , - , 13 , 90 , October 22, 2015 ,

, 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 , {{Cite web, title = Aaron Ciechanover - Facts, url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2004/ciechanover-facts.html, website = www.nobelprize.org, access-date = 2016-02-05 , - , 13 , 91 , November 12, 2015
Michael G. Rosenfeld
, HHMI /

, San Diego, USA /

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, USA , ''"Mendel's messengers: Enhancers and transcriptional programs"'' , , , - , 13 , 92 , March 3, 2016 , Michael G. Rossmann ,

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and ...

, West Lafayette, USA , ''"A personal history of structural virology"'' , , , - , 13 , 93 , April 7, 2016 , Steve Jackson , Gurdon Institute,

, UK , ''"Harnessing genetic principals to treat human disease"'' , , , - , 13 , 94 , May 5, 2016 , Joan A. Steitz , HHMI /

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

, New Haven, USA , ''"Viral and cellular noncoding RNAs: Insight into evolution"'' , , , - , 13 , 95 , May 19, 2016 ,

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, USA , ''"On de novo purine biosynthesis: The purinosome"'' , , , - , 14 , 96 , September 22, 2016
Wolfgang Baumeiste
r
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 Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
UK , ''"Design Principles of Pluripotency"'' , , , - , 14 , 98 , March 2, 2017 ,

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 Sir Peter James Donnelly (born 15 May 1959) is an Australian-British mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, and the CEO of Genomics PLC. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made contribut ...

, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Wellcome Trust 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 (born January 27, 1953 in Higashiōsaka) is a professor at the Department of Host Defense, Osaka University, Japan. He has made ground-breaking discoveries in the field of immunology, most significantly in the area of innate host defense mechani ...

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 Memorial 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 Rudolf Jaenisch (born April 22, 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch ...

, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA , ''"Epigenetic Regulation in Development, Aging and Disease States''" , , , - , 16 , 112 , October 18, 2018 ,

Patrick Sung Patrick Sung is an American professor of structural biology and biochemistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is known for his work on DNA repair. Biography Sung was born on May 24, 1959 in Hong Kong. In 1981, h ...

, 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 Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, ...

, 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 ,

, Switzerland , ''"Rise of the Micromachines: Biology on the Small Scale"'' , , , - , 18 , 125 , November 18, 2021 ,

Marek Mlodzik Marek Mlodzik is the Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and also holds professorships in Oncological Sciences and Ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Prior to this (from 1991 to 2 ...

, 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 ,

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