Workshops
Two workshops will be run in conjunction with this years MapNet.
Each workshop is limited to 30 places.
If you are interested in them, please fill out this form to help determine the level and material of these workshops.
Please note that this form does not book a slot at these workshops - this can be done through the registration link.
BLUP Methods Workshop: 10 November, 2025
This workshop considers the analysis of selection experiments which incorporate ancestral and/or genomic information. The workshop uses real examples taken from plant improvement programs which illustrate fitting a linear mixed model in a (fully-efficient) single-step approach. The freely available R package DWReml (Butler et al., 2025) will be used in the workshop.
A laptop will be required for this workshop.
It will run from 8:45am to 5pm.
Consulting Māori communities on gene technology research Workshop: 13 November, 2025
This workshop is about improving competencies in specific areas: why consult with Māori, what does effective consultation consist of? Māori perspectives of gene technologies and why these matters. What is codesign and how does can it apply to working with Māori communities in gene technology related research?
It will run from 8:45am to 4:30pm.