Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
World DNA Day (April 25) commemorates the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of the DNA double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. We plan to introduce the public to both basic knowledge and the latest advances in genome and DNA research through popularization lectures and various activities.
Together with the National Institute for Cancer Research, we would like to invite you to celebrations of the DNA Day.
The program will include lectures by colleagues from the NICR consortium and the Institute of Molecular Genetics. There will also be educational activities for children, including a Detective Game on Forensic Genetics and an exhibition on the history and research of DNA.
We would like to invite you and your children to participate in the art competition “Children Draw DNA” and the creative competition “What Will the Evil N’adoor Do Next?”. More details in the attached leaflets or on the NICR website (in Czech only).
Michal Šmída
CRISPR/Cas Molecular Scissors: How to Cut Genes
Vladimíra Koudeláková
HPV: An Inconspicuous
DNA Virus With a Great
Impact
Lenka Hajgajda
When Science Means Hope: The Journey from Diagnosis to Research
Radka Václavíková
How Genetics Influences (Not Only) Cancer Treatment
František Sedlák
DNA and Blood Cancers
Tomáš Venit
DNA, Jurassic Park, and Several Nobel Prizes