Mendel Lectures 2008-2009 Thursday 9 October 2008, 17.00h Dr Jan-Michael Peters IMP, Vienna, Austria "How cohesin controls sister chromatid cohesion and transcription" Thursday 20 November 2008, 17.00h Dr Andrea Musacchio FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation and the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy "Molecular bases of chromosome segregation" Thursday 26 March 2009, 17.00h Professor Jonas Frisén Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden "New neurons in old brains" Thursday 23 April 2009, 17.00h Professor Iain Campbell University of Oxford, UK “Cell migration and protein interaction networks” Thursday 7 May 2009, 17.00h Dr Venki Ramakrishnan MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK “What structures of the ribosome have revealed about its central role in translating genetic information” Thursday 14 May 2009, 17.00h Professor Frances Ashcroft University of Oxford, UK “Neonatal diabetes: from ion channel to disease” Thursday, 21 May 2009, 17.00h Professor Walter Keller University of Basel, Switzerland Title to be confirmed