Welcome to the 2023 MapNet meeting

MapNet2023 will be held November 22–24 in Dunedin, New Zealand, at the University of Otago (22 November) and AgResearch Invermay (23-24 November).

Registrations have now closed.

Click here for the conference programme

Keynote speakers

  • Professor Elinor Karlsson: Director, Vertebrate Genomics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
    • The Future of Comparative Genomics: Finding Meaning in DNA Sequence in a Million Genome Age
  • Professor Alison Van Eenennaam: Animal Genomics and Biotechnology, University of California, Davis.
    • Global Status of Gene Edited Food Animals and their Products
  • Associate Professor Vinzent Börner: GHPC Consulting and Services Pty Ltd, Australia.
    • Past, present and future of high performance computing in animal breeding
  • Dr Suzanne Rowe: Senior Scientist, Animal Genomics, AgResearch, Invermay.
    • Using molecular phenotypes to lower global methane emissions

MapNet 2023

MapNet2023 themes include primary sector genomics, bioinformatics, integrating indigenous genomics into research and teaching, methodology advances, and ecological & evolutionary genomics. The program and times will be updated closer to the meeting date and posted here as a pdf.

Sponsors

BGI

illumina

GenomNZ

decode science

AgResearch

UniversityOfOtago

GenomicsAotearoa

AbacusBio

BeefLambGeneticsNZ