The first idea of the Mendel Lectures occurred during the international conference ´EMBO Workshop: Genetics after the Genome´ organised by Dieter Schweizer and Kim Nasmyth in 2002.
Myšlenka realizace Mendel Lectures se objevila v roce 2002 v rámci mezinárodní konference „EMBO Workshop: Genetics after the Genome“, kterou pořádali Dieter Schweizer a Kim Nasmyth.