DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Residence: Hudcova 76 621 00 Brno phone: + 420 549 211 703

Postal address: Zelny trh 6 659 37 Brno e-mail: genetika@mzm.cz

Head of the department:

• PhDr. Jiri Sekerak, Ph.D. - history and philosophy of science, e-mail: jsekerak@mzm.cz

Staff members:

• RNDr. Eva Matalova, Ph.D. - molecular biology
• Jana Daňková - librarian, documentalist

• History of science, philosophy of science
• Gregor Mendel and mendeliana
• Evolution of the life system

Research activities:

• Gregor Mendel and the History of Genetics, Anna Matalova, e-mail: amatalova@mzm.cz, Jiri Sekerak, e-mail: jsekerak@mzm.cz
• in co-operation with European Group for the Study of Interrelations between Biology, Chemistry and Physics, Anna Matalova
• Lysenkoism in Czechoslovakia, Repudiation of Genetics in the Post-war Era, Jiri Sekerak

Permanent activities:

• library open to the public Mon - Fri 9 - 11 a.m.

Specialist societies organised by the department:

• History of Science Study Group for Moravia and Silesia
• Secretariat of the Brno Branch of the Society for the History of Science and Technology
• The Czech Committee for the History of Science

Publications, periodicals issued by the department:

• Title: Acta Musei Moraviae - Folia Mendeliana, Editor: Ms Anna Matalova
• A. Matalová, J. Sekerák: GENETICS BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN. 2004

Presentation:

• Biography J. G. Mendel - text

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