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.