Invited Speakers

The Congress will bring to Melbourne an outstanding invited group of more than 120 global specialists to lead program discussions. Here is a list of just some of these speakers:

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Professor Mark Blaxter
Wellcome Sanger Institute
United Kingdom

Professor Nancy Cox
Vanderbilt Brain Institute
USA

Professor Anne
Ferguson-Smith
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

Professor Eddie Holmes
 University of Sydney
Australia

Professor David Kingsley
Stanford University School of Medicine
USA

Professor Ruth Lehmann
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
USA

Professor Nicola Mulder
University of Cape Town
South Africa

Professor Detlef Weigel
 Max Planck Institute for
Biology Tübingen
Germany

2023 Gruber Genetics Prize recipient(s)
To be announced

INVITED SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Professor Hugo Bellen
Baylor College of Medicine 
USA

Professor Eric Betzig
Nobel Laureate
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
USA

Professor Hualan Chen
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
China

Professor Evan Eichler 
Washington University 
USA

Dr Maya Ghoussaini
Wellcome Sanger Institute
United Kingdom

Professor Anna Gloyn
Stanford University
USA

Professor Christiane
Nüsslein-Volhard
Nobel Laureate
Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology
Germany

Professor Yukinori Okada
Osaka University
Japan

Professor Uma Ramakrishnan
Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research 
India

Dr Erisa Sabakaki Mwaka
Makerere University Kampala 
Uganda

Professor Yoshiko Takahashi
Japan

Professor Hongyan Wang
Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore 

Professor Jian-Kang Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

Dr Krystal Tsosie
Arizona State University
USA

Professor Corinne Houart
Kings College London
United Kingdom

Dr Heather Mefford
Cell & Molecular Biology Department, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
USA

Associate Professor Elphège Nora
University of California,
San Francisco
USA

Dr Matthew Barnes
Texas Tech University
USA

Dr Camille Bonneaud
University of Exeter
United Kingdom

Ms Kirsten Boggs
Australian Genomics
Australia

Professor Toshifumi Minamoto
Kobe University
Japan

Dr Cristina Ferrandiz
IBMCP
Spain

Professor Junko Kyozuka
Tohuku University
Japan

Professor Kan Wang
Iowa State University
USA

Dr Alison Bentley
CIMMYT
Mexico

Dr Vania Azevedo
International Potato Centre
Peru

Professor Linda Partridge
UCL
United Kingdom

Professor Muzlifah Haniffa
Sanger Institute
United Kingdom

Associate Professor Ailene Macpherson
Simon Fraser University
Canada

Dr Tim Connallon
Monash University
Australia

Associate Professor Maren Wellenreuther
University of Auckland
New Zealand

Professor Alison van Eenennaam
UC Davis
USA

Professor Sally Aitken
University of British Columbia
Canada

A/Professor Katrina Dlugosch
University of Arizona 
USA

Professor Cristina Vieira 
Claude Bernard University Lyon 
France

Dr Claudia Coleine
Tuscia University
Italy

Dr Alison Murray
Desert Research Institute
USA

Professor Kees Van Oers 
Netherlands Insitute of Ecology
The Netherlands  

Associate Professor Sonal Singal
California State University, Dominguez Hills   
USA

Professor Kimberly Cooper
University of California San Diego
USA

Professor Austin Burt 
Imperial College London
United Kingdom 

Professor Ryan Lister
University of Western Australia
Australia 

Professor Anthony James
University of California
USA

Dr Alan Rubin
WEHI
Australia

Associate Professor Tanja Pyhäjärvi 
University of Helsinki
Finland

Dr Marco Todesco
University of British Colombia
Canada

Dr Claire Mérot
CNRS/University of Rennes
France

Dr Sandra Álvarez-Carretero 
University College London
UK

Associate Professor Melissa Gymrek
University of California San Diego
USA

Dr Egor Dolzhenko
Pacific Biosciences
USA

Dr Chiara Fabbri
Kings College London
UK

Dr William Reay
Newcastle University
Australia

Professor Qi Zhou
Zhejiang University
China

Professor Asato Kruoiwa
Hokkaido University
Japan

Dr Jochen Kumlehn
Leibniz-Institut (IPK)
Germany

Professor Pam Ronald
UC Davis
USA

Dr Carolina Sansaloni
CIMMYT
Mexico

Associate Professor Dahiana Arcila
University of Oklahoma
USA

Dr Gemma Louise Chandratillake
University of Cambridge
UK

Associate Professor Karen Miga
University California, Santa Cruz
USA

Dr Philip Wilcox
University Otago
New Zealand

Dr Sarah Jane Dawson
Peter MacCallum Cancer Care
Australia

Professor Ignatia Van den Veyver
Baylor College of Medicine
Australia

Associate Professor Irina Voineagu
UNSW
Australia

Associate Professor Kim-An Le Cao
University of Melbourne
Australia

Associate Professor Mirana Ramialison
MCRI/Monash University
Australia

Professor David Thomas
Garvan
Australia

Professor Richard Gibbs
Baylor College of Medicine
USA

Professor Ralf Sommer
Max-Planck Institute for Biology Tuebingen
Germany

Professor Victoria Sork
UCLA
USA

Professor Miltos Tsiantis
Max-Planck Institute for Biology Tuebingen
Germany

Professor Edward Buckler
Cornell University
USA

 
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