The conference will take place in the institute’s anniversary year — 60 years since the establishment of the institute.
In addition, genetics is marking several other anniversaries: 100 years since Vavilov began developing the Theory of Centers of Origin of Cultivated Plants, as well as 120 years since William Bateson first publicly used the term “genetics” at the Third International Conference on Plant Hybridization in London in 1906.
The year also marks 165 years since the birth of William Bateson; 160 years since the birth of Thomas Morgan, who made an indisputable contribution to genetics; 90 years since the birth of Yuri Altukhov, our director in 1992–2006; 120 years since the birth of Mark Belgovsky, an employee of our institute in 1933–1937 and a specialist in mutagenesis; 130 years since the birth of Mikhail Navashin, an employee of our institute in 1937–1941 and one of the founders of cytogenetics; 130 years since the birth of Sergey Gershenzon, an employee of our institute in 1935–1937 who discovered chemical mutagenesis; and 1120 years since the birth of Sos Alikhanyan, the first director of the State Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms.