We are pleased to announce the 20th Anniversary of MapNet, with MapNet2025 being held November 11th-12th in Lincoln at Plant and Food Research. This year’s conference themes will include primary sector genomics, bioinformatics, integrating indigenous genomics into research and teaching, methodology advances, and ecological & evolutionary genomics.

MapNet is a group of New Zealand-based molecular and quantitative geneticists from organisations involved in research related to genomics. It was started in 2005 to ensure cross-sector interactions.

MapNet aims to coordinate scientists from different organisations using common technologies and analytical platforms, to foster the development of multidisciplinary and cross-sector research projects, and to facilitate knowledge exchange between researchers.

A workshop on 'BLUP methods' will be run on Monday 10th November and a workshop on 'Consulting Māori communities on gene technology research' on Thursday 13th November at the same location.

We are offering both student and early career travel grants.

For more information please visit the conference website.

Conference website - https://mapnet2025.github.io/

We look forward to seeing you all there!