Programme
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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
Topics will include:
- Primary sector genotyping and breeding
- Ecological and evolutionary genomics
- Māori kaupapa/Te Ao Māori into genetics/genomics teaching and research
- Microbial genomics and eDNA
- Methodology advances in statistical genetics
- Human & health genomics and epigenomics
- New technologies for revealing genetic variation