Welcome to the 2025 MapNet meeting

MapNet2025 will be held where it all started 20 years ago on the Plant and Food campus in Lincoln, 11th - 12th November 2025.

MapNet2025 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.

poster

Two workshops will be run in conjunction with this years MapNet.

  • BLUP Methods Workshop: 10th November, 2025

  • Consulting Māori communities on gene technology research Workshop: 13th November, 2025

  • See the Workshops page for details on these.

Keynote speakers

We are pleased to announce our 2025 keynote speakers:

  • Professor Brian Cullis: University of Wollongong.
    • DWREML: a computationally efficient R package for fitting aspirational mixed models in genetic improvement programs
  • Associate Professor Anna Santure: University of Auckland.
    • Leveraging two decades of monitoring to map inbreeding depression in the threatened hihi (stitchbird; Notiomystis cincta)”
  • Dr Timothy Bilton: BSI - AgResearch.
    • A new era of genomic prediction for the primary industries: Genomics for all, phenotyping at scale

Sponsors

GenomicsAotearoa

GenomNZ

decode science

Bragato

illumina

BSI - AgResearch

BSI - Plant and Food Research

UniversityOfOtago