Gregor Johann Mendel: Cesty ke genomu zakladatele genetiky | Begründer der Genetik – die Wege zu seinem Genom | Ways to the genome of the founder of genetics
Gregor Johann Mendel: Ways to the genome of the founder of genetics
Contributor(s): Tereza Pospíšilová (Editor), Michael Doubek (Editor), Eva Drozdová (Editor)
Subject(s): Archaeology, Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Gregor Johann Mendel; genetics; genome; tomb; remains; exhumation; analysis;
Summary/Abstract: The book maps the ways to the analysis of the genome of Gregor Johann Mendel, a project which was carried out to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of this important scientist. It describes the exhumation of his remains from the Augustinian tomb at the Central Cemetery in Brno and the scientific examination that followed, as well as the search for traces of Mendel’s DNA on his personal belongings kept in the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno. The individual chapters, that is, the ways of research, introduce the reader to the initial impulses leading to the archaeological research on the tomb and the subsequent analysis of Mendel’s genome. They describe the process of identifying the remains found in the grave with the person of Abbot Mendel, the anthropological research on his skeletal remains, as well as the process of isolation and analysis of the DNA of this historical figure. Rich photographic documentation chronicles the exciting work of the scientific team. Thanks to their efforts, the book reveals surprising findings and new, important details about the founder of genetics.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-80-280-0081-3
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-80-280-0081-3
- Page Count: 184
- Publication Year: 2022
- Language: English, Czech, German
Pozvání na výzkumné cesty - Die Wege der Forschung betreten – eine Einladung
Pozvání na výzkumné cesty - Die Wege der Forschung betreten – eine Einladung
(Invitation to the exploratory research ways)
- Author(s):Šárka Pospíšilová, Jan Emil Biernat
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:11-26
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:science; Gregor Johann Mendel; genetics;
- Summary/Abstract:There are not many scientists who have managed to lay the foundations for an entire scientific field. And there are certainly not many who have achieved such a feat in this country. Therefore great respect is due Gregor Johann Mendel, considered the founder of genetics, who worked for most of his life in the Augustinian monastery at Old Brno and, on the basis of his experimental work, formulated the laws of heredity that are now called by his name throughout the world. However, Mendel was a much more interdisciplinary scientist, involved in many different fields. In addition to conducting thousands of challenging experiments investigating the inheritance of individual traits in peas, Mendel was also interested in meteorology, beekeeping and breeding. In addition, he also served as a priest, abbot of the St. Thomas Monastery, and even as a bank director. We can hardly imagine such a wide range of activities among contemporary scientists.
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Gregor Johann Mendel – muž řady talentů, profesí i poslání Erster Weg - Gregor Johann Mendel – ein Mann vieler Talente, Berufe und Berufungen
Gregor Johann Mendel – muž řady talentů, profesí i poslání Erster Weg - Gregor Johann Mendel – ein Mann vieler Talente, Berufe und Berufungen
(Gregor Johann Mendel – A man of many talents, professions and vocations)
- Author(s):Blanka Křížová
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:27-53
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; genetics; science; talent; profession; vocation;
- Summary/Abstract:Johann was born on 20 July 1822 in Hynčice, Silesia, into the family of German-speaking small farmers Anton and Rosina Mendel. He had an older and a younger sister (two of this other sisters died early in childhood). • From an early age, the boy was very curious. He found many stimuli in his father’s orchard and apiary. Already at elementary school, his teacher noticed his unusual interest in learning. From this time, his life took a course different from that which one might expect from his family background...
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Výzkum osobních předmětů G. J. Mendela – zdroj hledání DNA - G. J. Mendels persönliche Utensilien – DNA-Quelle dringend gesucht
Výzkum osobních předmětů G. J. Mendela – zdroj hledání DNA - G. J. Mendels persönliche Utensilien – DNA-Quelle dringend gesucht
(Examining the personal possessions of G. J. Mendel: The quest for DNA)
- Author(s):Dana Fialová, Filip Pardy, Kristýna Brzobohatá
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:54-70
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; genetics; genome;
- Summary/Abstract:From the very first stages of planning the project to study the genome of Gregor Johann Mendel, it was clear that if Mendel’s remains were found in the tomb, it would not be possible to unequivocally identify them without a reference genetic material. The Augustinian tomb at the Brno Central Cemetery, where Gregor Johann Mendel is buried, has been used for more than 150 years, and the coffins are placed there more or less anonymously, and not in any order.
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Archeologický výzkum augustiniánské hrobky - Archäologen in der Augustinergruft
Archeologický výzkum augustiniánské hrobky - Archäologen in der Augustinergruft
(Archaeological research on the Augustinian tomb)
- Author(s):Marek Peška, Antonín Zůbek
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Archaeology, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:71-88
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; tomb; Augustinian tomb; archaeology;
- Summary/Abstract:The archaeological research during the exhumation of the remains of Gregor Johann Mendel was carried out by a team of archaeologists from Archaia Brno in cooperation with the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. The two institutions had cooperated on several previous projects. The exhumation of human skeletal remains has become an almost daily practice for Archaia’s employees since the establishment of the company’s Brno office. Over the quarter of a century of its existence, it has recovered the remains of thousands of buried individuals on many occasions, mostly as part of rescue archaeological excavations in Brno carried out in connection with various construction activities that disrupted prehistoric and early medieval burial sites or high medieval or modern cemeteries. Specific burial sites such as ossuaries, church crypts and mass graves have also been investigated in recent decades (Holub et al., 2006; Merta & Sedláčková, 2013; Zůbek, 2013, 2018; Živný, 2010). However, the research in retrieving the remains of Gregor Johann Mendel was exceptional in two ways. Unlike these other activities, this project took place on the grounds of a functioning cemetery and its subject was the remains of a known person, compared to the prior exhumations from the graves of multitudes of nameless deceased.
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Exhumace ostatků G. J. Mendela - Die Exhumierung
Exhumace ostatků G. J. Mendela - Die Exhumierung
(Exhumation of the remains of G. J. Mendel)
- Author(s):Eva Drozdová, Dana Fialová
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:89-104
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; genetics; exhumation;
- Summary/Abstract:Immediately after the archaeologists lifted the coffin with the remains of Gregor Johann Mendel from the grave in the tomb of the Augustinian Order at the Brno Central Cemetery, the coffin was transported to the local morgue. It was here where all the tasks related to the field anthropological research were carried out: the taking of samples for genetic analysis, the removal of the body from the coffin, and the removal and safe storage of all the artefacts which were present in the coffin along with the bodily remains.
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Výzkum kosterních pozůstatků G. J. Mendela - Das Skelett
Výzkum kosterních pozůstatků G. J. Mendela - Das Skelett
(Examination of the skeletal remains of G. J. Mendel)
- Author(s):Eva Drozdová
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:105-125
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; exhumation; examination; skeletal remains;
- Summary/Abstract:After being removed from the coffin, the skeletal remains of Gregor Johann Mendel were transported for further anthropological analysis to the Laboratory of Biological and Molecular Anthropology of the Section of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Department of Experimental Biology of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. After a brief acclimatisation in the skeletal material depository, the state of the bone tissue was evaluated, and the anthropological analysis commenced. First, the individual bones were cleaned. Because they were in good condition, no complicated reconstruction was necessary. Most of the bones, except for the pelvic bones and the tibiae, were intact. At this stage, the skeletal remains were ready for anthropological study. • The bones were well preserved. The best preserved were the skull and the upper part of the postcranial skeleton.
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Identifizierung der leiblichen Überreste von G. J. Mendel
Identifizierung der leiblichen Überreste von G. J. Mendel
(Identification of the bodily remains of G. J. Mendel)
- Author(s):Dana Fialová, Filip Pardy, Eva Drozdová, Marek Peška, Antonín Zůbek
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Archaeology, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:126-144
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; bodily remains; archaeology;
- Summary/Abstract:The identification of the remains of Gregor Johann Mendel was a crucial step in the research on his skeletal remains. No details were known about the burial of his remains in the tomb. The only established fact was that his coffin with his remains was buried in this location. In order to be sure that we were really examining the remains of Gregor Johann Mendel, his remains had to be identified by all available means. Archaeologically, based on the order and the position of the coffin in the tomb. Anthropologically, by comparing the biological parameters of the remains found in the coffin that was assumed to be his with known facts from his life. Most important, however, was genetic identification, which can identify an individual with a probability approaching 100%.
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Genom, původ a zdravotní stav G. J. Mendela - Genom, Herkunft und Gesundheitszustand von G. J. Mendel
Genom, původ a zdravotní stav G. J. Mendela - Genom, Herkunft und Gesundheitszustand von G. J. Mendel
(The genome, the origin and the state of health of G. J. Mendel)
- Author(s):Filip Pardy, Dana Fialová, Michael Doubek
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Archaeology, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:145-166
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; genome; origin; state;
- Summary/Abstract:Gregor Johann Mendel’s (GJM) DNA analyses were based on material which was obtained in cooperation with the Laboratory of Biological and Molecular Anthropology of the Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (LBMA). They consisted of samples from the personal items in the Gregor Johann Mendel Museum collection and in the Abbey, as well as material obtained directly from the remains removed from the Augustinian tomb at the Brno Central Cemetery.
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Znovuuložení ostatků do augustiniánské hrobky - Gregor Johann Mendels zweites Begräbnis
Znovuuložení ostatků do augustiniánské hrobky - Gregor Johann Mendels zweites Begräbnis
(Returning the remains to the Augustinian tomb)
- Author(s):Eva Drozdová, Šárka Pospíšilová, Jan Emil Biernat
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Archaeology, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:167-176
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendel; remains; exhumation; genome; Augustinian tomb;
- Summary/Abstract:The direct examination of the skeletal remains in the laboratories of Masaryk University was completed on 3 November 2021. The skeletal remains of all the members of the Order of St. Augustine exhumed from the section of the tomb where Gregor Johann Mendel was buried were returned to the Order on that day. The remains were transported from the MU campus in Brno-Bohunice to the St. Thomas Abbey, where in the Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady they were placed in new, smaller coffins made of dark wood with a light cross and the names of the deceased. Further scientific research was carried out using only previously collected samples of biological material and data obtained during the anthropological and genetic analyses.
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Poděkování - Danksagung
Poděkování - Danksagung
(Acknowledgements)
- Author(s):Not Specified Author
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:177-182
- No. of Pages:6
- Keywords:Gregor Johann Mendels; exhumation; genetics; acknowledgements;
- Summary/Abstract:The authors thank all who have contributed to the research on the bodily remains and genetic information of Abbot Mendel and those who initiated the research project.
- Price: 4.90 €
Literatura - Literatur
Literatura - Literatur
(References)
- Author(s):Not Specified Author
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):Archaeology, Bibliography, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
- Page Range:183-184
- No. of Pages:2
- Price: 4.90 €
Seznam zdrojů obrázků
Seznam zdrojů obrázků
(Photo credits)
- Author(s):Not Specified Author
- Language:Czech
- Subject(s):General Reference Works
- Page Range:185-185
- No. of Pages:1
Medailonky autorů
Medailonky autorů
(About the authors)
- Author(s):Not Specified Author
- Language:Czech
- Subject(s):General Reference Works
- Page Range:186-191
- No. of Pages:6
Pozvání do Mendelova muzea Masarykovy univerzity a augustiniánského opatství
Pozvání do Mendelova muzea Masarykovy univerzity a augustiniánského opatství
(Invitation to the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University and the Augustinian Abbey)
- Author(s):Not Specified Author
- Language:English, Czech, German
- Subject(s):General Reference Works
- Page Range:192-197
- No. of Pages:6
