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.
Two workshops will be run in conjunction with this years MapNet.
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BLUP Methods Workshop: 10th November, 2025
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Consulting Māori communities on gene technology research Workshop: 13th November, 2025
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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