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.

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.

  • Associate Professor Anna Santure: University of Auckland.

  • Dr Timothy Bilton: BSI - AgResearch.

MapNet 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.

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Sponsors

GenomicsAotearoa

GenomNZ

decode science

Bragato

illumina

BSI - AgResearch

BSI - Plant and Food Research

UniversityOfOtago