Celebrating and commemorating the 2022 bicentennial of Mendel 's birth, the exhumation of Mendel's body for archeologic, anthropologic, and genomic research

On July 22, 1822, Johann Mendel was born on January 6, 1884, in Hyncice, Moravian Silesia; Abbot Gregor Mendel died in Brno, now Czechia, having founded the science of genetics. A common impression of him is as a lonely monk, working without help and unappreciated, who meticulously bred just pea plants and counted the offspring with various traits. After two years of growing purebred lines, four years of experimental crosses, and nearly two years of data analysis, he gave a talk in 1865, published a paper in a local journal a year later, died unrecognized, to be discovered only in 1900, but his numbers might be too good to be true.