Tuesday, 4th July Annual Conference of the Genetics Society of Australasia with the NZ Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

• Wildlife genomics and conservation – lessons from the koala genome - Rebecca Johnson

• Using conservation genomics to predict adaptive potential in hihi - Anna Santure

• Decoding obesity & type-2 diabetes co-morbidity - Justin O'Sullivan

• Deciphering the role of DNA replication in human growth and development - Louise Bicknell

• Genotyping Brassicas: The need for a pangenome - Jacqui Batley

• Torso-like interacts with the insulin signalling pathway to regulate growth and developmental timing - Coral Warr

• Using population genetics and genomics as next-generation approaches for the control of invasive insects: social wasps as a case study - Phil Lester

• the transcription factor petal loss suppresses growth between sepals in arabidopsis - David R Smyth
• Evolving Eusociality: Using Drosophila to understand how queen pheromone inhibits reproduction in worker honeybees - Mackenzie R Lovegrove
• Use it or lose it? The genomic mechanisms underlying wing-loss in New Zealand’s alpine stoneflies. - Andrew Veale
• The genetic and mechanistic basis of worker sterility in the honey bee - Isobel Ronai
• Phenotypically normal worker honey bees (Apis mellifera capensis) with three alleles at multiple microsatellite loci - Benjamin Oldroyd
• Is migration propensity linked to genetic “switches” in a great “speciator” silvereyes Zosterops lateralis? - Graeme Oatley

• Bridging the conservation genetics gap by identifying barriers to uptake for conservation practitioners - Helen R Taylor
• The devil’s in the diet: a metabarcoding study of ecosystem changes. - Catriona D Campbell
• Using mitochondrial DNA sequencing and nuclear Genotyping-by-Sequencing to identify bycaught seabirds - Peter A Ritchie
• genetics and conservation biology: a reexamination - Ian R Franklin
• Mitochondrial variation and heteroplasmy in Australian and Hawai’ian cane toads - Lee A Rollins
• Environmental DNA monitoring detects habitat-specific species assemblages in the marine ecosystem. - Gert-Jan Jeunen

• Predicting the future and reconstructing the past through protein engineering - Colin Jackson

• A Recessive Skeletal Dysplasia due to Compound Heterozygosity for Bi-allelic Variants in MYH3 - Stephen Robertson

• How the other half live: the evolution of repetitive DNA - Austen R.D. Ganley

• The anatomy of an adapted enzyme - Ren Dobson
• Determining the molecular effects of 5-fluorocytosine on the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Jessica M Thomson
• Emergence of RNA editing in an evolution experiment - Anthony Poole
• Bioinformatic discovery of noncoding RNA genes - Christopher Brown

• Zbtb11 regulates TP53 and is required for definitive haemopoiesis - Maria-Cristina Keightley
• Growing a Pair: Directing pluripotent stem cells towards human testis cell lineages - Ingrid M Knarston
• Pleiotropic effect of ABCG2 in gout - Amanda J Phipps-Green
• GWAS on Post-term Birth: Analysis of Successive Finnish Birth Cohorts Identifies TKT and SSBP2 Loci - William Schierding
• Using the mouse model to understand the interplay between genetic susceptibility and idiopathic scoliosis progression during puberty. - Megan Wilson

• epigenetics and sex determination - Jenny Graves
• A unified model for the molecular basis and evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination - Clare Holleley
• Epigenetic memory in vertebrates - Tim Hore

• phylogenomics and species delimitation of pygmy perches: implications for biogeography, taxonomy and conservation - Sean J Buckley
• differential gene expression in brain tissue of cane toads across the australian invasive range - Andrea J West
• Volcanoes and earthquakes shed light on how disturbance shapes spatial patterns of genetic diversity - Ceridwen Fraser
• Invader immune profiles? Differential gene expression patterns in cane toad populations match predictions about invasive species immune function - Daniel Selechnik
• Phylogenetic affinities of white-chinned petrels: questions for conservation management - Kalinka Rexer-Huber

See Poster Session 1 for abstracts

H D Skinner Annex, 361 Great King Street

Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street

Tickets NZ$125, Students NZ$90