Monday, 3rd July Annual Conference of the Genetics Society of Australasia with the NZ Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

• Drosophila to identify and unravel pathogenic mechanisms of human genetic diseases - Hugo Bellen

Practical Adaptive Landscapes

• Cell-type specific profiling of chromatin states within the brain - Owen Marshall

• The avoidance of random RNA interactions controls bacterial protein expression - Paul Gardner

• Developmental genomics of sponges - Maja Adamska

• Commemorating 60 years of bidirectional selection: Applying genomics to the Virginia body weight chicken lines - Mette Lillie
• The shape of silencing: differential DNA methylation between the sexes of genes subject to X chromosome inactivation in marsupials - Paul D Waters
• New insights into sexual plasticity in fish using RNA-Seq - Hui Liu

• Insecticide Metabolism - Control or Chaos? - Philip Batterham

• evolution of the odorant receptor multigene family in insects: a tale from coloured fish to flying dragons - Richard D Newcomb
• Cyclotides: deployment of the small circular peptides for butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea) plant defence - Georgianna K Oguis
• Genotyping-By-Sequencing for diverse applications including population genetics - Jeanne Jacobs

• Drosophila and mouse genetic models provide clues into the inexplicable tumour suppressor behaviour of FUBP1 in oligodendroglioma - Leonie Quinn

• The tuatara genome — insights from the sole survivor of an ancient reptilian Order - Neil Gemmell

• A genomewide investigation of susceptibility and resistance of bottlenose dolphins to cetacean morbillivirus - Kimberley C Batley
• Identifying methylome changes in response to heavy, long-term cannabis use, in a large longitudinal cohort - Amy Osborne
• Australian rainbowfishes: a model system for ecological genomic studies of adaptation to climate change - Luciano B Beheregaray
• Genetic hitchhikers: what species are hiding in your sequencing data? - Rachael Ashby

• Predicting altered methylation patterns in early pre-eclampsia - Suzan Almomani
• Using DNA methylation to investigate a novel model for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia - Abdulmonem Alsaleh
• Adaptive genomic divergence despite high gene flow in an Australian fish, golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) - Catherine RM Attard
• Combining deleterious ABC transporter C2 alleles of independent origin causes field resistance to insecticidal Bt toxins - Simon W Baxter
• Genetic consequences of wildfire in an insular stand of the bird-pollinated, granite-outcrop endemic tree Eucalyptus caesia - Nicole Bezemer
• Understanding the genetic basis of mate choice in an iconic Australian species - Parice A Brandies
• Waking the sleeping dragon - molecular insights into the hibernation of the central bearded dragon - Alexander Capraro
• Developmentally important transcription factor Fezf2 has a molecular and functional role in the mature brain - Alison J Clare
• Identification and expression of pluripotency genes during ascidian whole body regeneration. - Rebecca M. Clarke
• Regulation and Evolution of Complex Developmental Gene Networks - Andrew G Cridge
• Sequencing the genomes of every kākāpō - Andrew Digby
• Coming of age: the role of nuclear structure in zygotic genome activation - Amy Dowdle
• Does animal personality explain harem access in the polygynous New Zealand sea lion (phocarctos hookeri)?  - Imogen Foote
• Genomic analysis of hybridisation between the endemic kakī (black stilt), and the self-introduced poaka (pied stilt) - Natalie J Forsdick
• triose phosphate isomerase: far from perfect, far from done. - Josh B Gilligan
• Sex and stress: Is cortisol a mediator of sex change in fish? - Alexander Goikoetxea Pérez de Mendiola
• Genomics of a weevil pest and its parasitoid biocontrol agent - Thomas WR Harrop
• Characterisation of an Arabidopsis thaliana plant cysteine dioxygenase.     - Brooklyn K Hayes
• Recombination drives evolution of the pyoverdine locus in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. - Astra Heywood
• Evidence for post-transcriptional regulation of dosage compensation in platypus - William Horspool
• Telomere length dimorphism in dasyurid marsupials is based on parental origin of the chromosome - Emory D Ingles
• Regulatory small RNAs in bacteria: Annotation and evolutionary origins - Bethany R Jose
• functional analysis of a gout-associated noncoding snp variant - Sarada Ketharnathan
• Rock wallabies as a model for chromosome speciation: fine-scale mapping of chromosome rearrangements. - Maya Kruger-Andrzejewska
• Intergenerational effects of atrazine exposure during juvenile development in zebrafish - Simon SDL Lamb
• New structural and functional insights into the type II fungal ATP-binding cassette transporter Candida albicans Cdr1 - Erwin Lamping
• unravelling the genetics of macadamia: integration of linkage and genome maps. - Kirsty S Langdon
• Independent loss of introns during evolution across multiple fungal clades - Chun Shen Lim
• To the Caribbean and beyond: complete mitogenomes of ancient guinea pigs as a proxy for human interaction post-AD500 - Edana Lord
• genome-wide association study of gout in 111,098 people of european ancestry - Tanya J Major
• Structural investigation of the Hsc70 heat shock cognate protein for applications in radiotherapy - Jamin L.B Martin
• Whole genome insight into Kea’s alpine lifestyle - Denise Martini
• Mechanisms of Active DNA Demethylation in somatic cells - Issam Mayyas
• Gender bias and late onset idiopathic disease. - Jeremy McCallum-Loudeac
• Innovative approaches to disease gene discovery in motor neuron disease - Emily P McCann
• Inbreeding on the rise: Molecular-based pedigree reveals an early warning sign of gene diversity loss in an island population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) - Elspeth A McLennan
• Germline Variant in Tumour Supressor p16^INK4A  and Long Non-Coding RNA ANRIL in Breast Cancer - Paulomi Mehta
• De novo assembly and reconstruction of complete circular chloroplast genomes using Geneious - Hilary Miller
• Germline memory: Understanding epigenetic reprogramming in vertebrates - Oscar Ortega-Recalde
• SLC2A9 and hyperuricemia: Identification of population-specific genetic variants in New Zealand Maori and Pacific (Polynesian) people. - Padmini Parthasarathy
• Interactions between PvdA and PvdF, two enzymes involved in pyoverdine biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa  - Priyadarshini Devi Philem
• Hierarchical metapopulation structure in the southern Australia coastal bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops cf. australis) - Eleanor AL Pratt
• A bimolecular luminescence complementation assay to identify a bee-friendly insecticide - Charlotte Pushparajan
• DNA methylation and aging in zebrafish - Alexandria Ragsdale
• Human papilloma virus in the placenta: the role of p53 - Sankalita Ray
• Detecting genetic divergence in a relict New Zealand seabird - Aisling Rayne
• Understanding evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Attika Rehman
• Convergence of Deformed Wing virus recombinant strains in honey bee populations with Varroa-resistance - Emily Remnant
• WITHDRAWN Gene expression in conspecific-supressed cane toad tadpoles - Mark F Richardson
• WITHDRAWN propr: an r package for measuring associations in any -omics data - Mark Richardson
• A FRET reporter of conformation in Hsc70 - Malcolm T Rutledge
• Identification and characterisation of two putative ecdysteroid kinases in Drosophila melanogaster - Jack Scanlan
• One big family? Population genetic structure of the endangered black-fronted tern (Chlidionias albostriatus) - Ann-Kathrin V. Schlesselmann
• Association of genetic variants in AAT encoded SERPINA1 gene with gout in Europeans and Polynesian  - Amara Shaukat
• Determining the regulation of Lbx1 gene expression during mouse spinal cord development. - Kathleen J Sircombe
• evidence for a large expansion and neofunctionalisation of neuroglobin-like genes in sea anemones - Hayden L Smith
• Testing the Kinship Theory of Genomic Imprinting in African honey bees - Nicholas MA Smith
• SWItching it up: Purification of fungal SWI/SNF complexes reveals compositional differences from their yeast counterparts. - Brianna Steed
• scratched, then sniffed? exploring the role of chemotaxis in host invasion - Laura RK Stringer
• Linkage disequilibrium and linked identity by decent for loose linkage   - John Sved
• sex-differential microrna expression in the developing mouse brain - Susie Szakats
• Modelling rare disease in Xenopus laevis using CRISPR/Cas9 - Amy Taylor
• Identifying functional roles for novel cis-regulatory elements predicted to regulate the Runx1 gene - Amarni Thomas
• Investigating early genetic regulators of sex change in labrid fish: a multispecies candidate gene approach - Jodi T Thomas
• Functional analysis of the SOXB1 bound Nestin enhancer using CRISPR  - Ella Thomson
• genetic effects on social isolation anxiety in zebrafish (Danio rerio) - Hilary Thomson
• Purification and chromophore composition of an unusual phycoerythrin from New Zealand red alga, Polysiphonia strictissima - Pauline I Uyseco
• Genotyping-By-Sequencing for diverse applications - Tracey van Stijn
• Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during long term infection in a patient with cystic fibrosis - Samuel J.T Wardell
• Establishing an invertebrate chordate model to study whole body regeneration - Megan Wilson
• Lhx9 is required for urogenital ridge formation and ovarian development. - Stephanie Workman
• Understanding the Batten disease associated protein CLN5 - Jade JR Yip

• Using large-scale genomic databases to interpret genetic variation - Daniel MacArthur