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