Programme
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9 -9.25am | REGISTRATION and Refreshments | |
| 9.25 - 10.30am |
WELCOME Pavel Pevzner UC San Diago |
Antibiotics Discovery: From Genome Sequencing to Genome Mining to Spectral Networks |
| 10.30 - 11am | MORNING TEA - Sponsored by NZGL | |
| 11 - 11.40am |
Jeff Plowman, AgResearch Susan Thomson, Plant & Food Research |
An expose of the bizarre: the proteomics of felting lustre mutant sheep Genomics of polyploid potato |
| 11:40-12:20pm |
Lightning Talks - Sponsored by NZSBMB |
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Nicole Wheeler, UC George Wiggins,UOC Fatemah Ghomi,UC Francesco Martoni,LU Alannah Rickerby, UC Sam Elley, UC |
Profile-based comparison of Salmonella genomes reveals signatures of host adaptation Genetic variability in familial breast cancers Investigating essential protein families in family Enterobacteriaceae Next Generation Sequencing in Bio-Protection: the interesting case of psyllids' microflora Experimental evidence that translation initiation in bacteria was invaded by a selfish genetic element The genome sequence of a putative Thauera bacterium isolated from a geothermal ecosystem |
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| 12.20 - 1.20pm | LUNCH | |
| 1.20 - 2pm |
Hannah Kennedy, CDHB Jenny Draper, ESR |
A diagnostic odyssey: Discovering the basis of a rare disease Contaminomics: the potential impact of metagenomic false positives on trade, biosecurity, and health |
| 2pm-2.10pm | Lightning Talks Prizegiving | |
| 2.10-2.50pm |
Artemio Mendoza,LU Jamie Wood, LCR |
"Molecular mechanisms of mycoparasitism, endophytism and growth promotion in Trichoderma: an integrated analysis of metabolome and transcriptome" Whole mitogenome sequencing using RNA-hybridisation enrichment reveals phylogenetic relationships of NZ’s extinct birds |
| 2.50-3.20pm | AFTERNOON TEA - Sponsored by SCIMED | |
| 3.20-4.20pm |
Gail Timmerman-Vaughan, Plant & Food Research Brent Gilpin, ESR Paul Gardner,UC |
Candidate genes and trait associations in pea (Pisum sativum L.) Bacterial whole genome sequencing for public health outbreak investigation Natural avoidance of stochastic mRNA:ncRNA interactions can be harnessed to control protein expression levels |
| 4.20pm | WRAP UP AND CLOSE | |
| 4.30pm | HAPPY HOUR | |