Invited Speakers

The Congress brought together an outstanding invited group of more than 120 global specialists who led 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 Neil Gemmell
University of Otago
New Zealand

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

*Due to unforeseen circumstances one of the original Plenary speakers, Professor David Kingsley is unable to attend the Congress.

2023 GRUBER GENETIC PRIZE RECIPIENTS

Professor Allan Jacobson
University of Massachusetts
USA

Professor Lynne Maquat
University of Rochester
USA

NOBEL LAUREATE

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

GENETICS AND HUMAN HEALTH

Professor Hugo Bellen
Baylor College of Medicine
USA

Ms Kirsten Boggs
Australian Genomics
Australia

Dr Gemma Louise Chandratillake
University of Cambridge
UK

Professor Evan Eichler
Washington University
USA

Dr Chiara Fabbri
Kings College London
UK

Dr Maya Ghoussaini
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
United Kingdom

Professor Anna Gloyn
Stanford University
USA

Professor Corinne Houart
Kings College London
United Kingdom

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

Dr Erisa Sabakaki Mwaka
Makerere University Kampala
Uganda

Dr William Reay
Newcastle University
Australia

Dr Krystal Tsosie
Arizona State University
USA

Associate Professor Benjamin Neale
Broad Institute
USA

Professor David Evans
IMB, UQ
Australia

Professor Noam Shomron
Tel Aviv University
Israel

Professor Lori Isom
University of Michigan
USA

GENOMICS AND GENOMIC TECHNOLOGIES

Dr Sarah Jane Dawson
Peter MacCallum Cancer Care
Australia

Dr Egor Dolzhenko
Pacific Biosciences
USA

Professor Richard Gibbs
Baylor College of Medicine
USA

Associate Professor Melissa Gymrek
University of California San Diego
USA

Dr Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazú
University of California
USA

Professor Kim-An Le Cao
University of Melbourne
Australia

Associate Professor Karen Miga
University California, Santa Cruz
USA

Associate Professor Mirana Ramialison
MCRI/Monash University
Australia

Professor David Thomas
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Australia

Professor Ignatia Van den Veyver
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas, USA

Associate Professor Irina Voineagu
UNSW
Australia

Associate Professor Philip Wilcox
University Otago
New Zealand

Professor Yukinori Okada
Osaka University
Japan

Dr Ann McCartney
Genome Informations Section, NIH
USA

Associate Professor Liz Worthey
University of Alabama
USA

Dr Braden T Tierney
Weill-Cornell Medical College/Harvard Medical School
USA

Professor Quin Wills
Ochre Bio
UK

Professor Abasi Ene-Obong
54gene
Nigeria

Professor Nadine Caron
University of British Columbia
Canada

MOLECULAR, CELLULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS

Professor Muzlifah Haniffa
Sanger Institute
United Kingdom

Professor Ryan Lister

University of Western Australia
Australia

Dr Marieke Oudelaar
Max Planck Institute
Germany

Professor Linda Partridge
UCL
United Kingdom

Dr Alan Rubin
WEHI
Australia

Professor Ralf Sommer
Max-Planck Institute for Biology Tuebingen
Germany

Professor Yoshiko Takahashi
Kyoto University
Japan

Professor Hongyan Wang
Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore

Professor Eldad Tzahor
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel

Professor Mark Febbraio
Monash University
Australia

Professor Claude Desplan
New York University
USA

Professor Denise Montell
University of California, Santa Barbara
USA

Associate Professor Minna-Liisa Änkö
Tampere University
Finland

Professor Elissa Hallem
UCLA
USA

Professor Gracjan Michlewski
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw
Poland

Dr Avnika Ruparelia
University of Melbourne
Australia

Associate Professor Nathan Palpant
University of Queensland
Australia

Dr Donna Whelan
La Trobe University
Australia

AGRICULTURAL AND PLANT GENETICS

Professor Alison van Eenennaam
UC Davis
USA

Dr Vania Azevedo
International Potato Centre
Peru

Inez H. Slamet-Loedin
International Rice Research Institute
Philippines

Professor Peter Waterhouse
Queensland University of Technology
Australia

Dr Cristina Ferrandiz
IBMCP
Spain

Dr Jochen Kumlehn
Leibniz-Institut (IPK)
Germany

Professor Pam Ronald
UC Davis
USA

Associate Professor Carolina Sansaloni
CIMMYT
Mexico

Professor Victoria Sork
UCLA
USA

Professor Junko Kyozuka
Tohuku University
Japan

Professor Kevin Davies
Plant & Food Research
New Zealand

Professor Kan Wang
Iowa State University
USA

Professor Jacqueline Batley
University of Western Australia
Australia

Dr Dugald Reid
La Trobe University
Australia

Dr Frances Sussmilch
University of Tasmania
Australia

Professor Jian-Kang Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

Associate Professor Utpal Nath
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
India

Professor Yalong Guo
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

GENETICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Associate Professor Tanja Pyhäjärvi
University of Helsinki
Finland

Professor Sally Aitken
University of British Columbia
Canada

Dr Matthew Barnes
Texas Tech University
USA

Dr Michelle Wille
University of Sydney
Australia

Dr Claudia Coleine
Tuscia University
Italy

A/Professor Katrina Dlugosch
University of Arizona
USA

Professor Toshifumi Minamoto
Kobe University
Japan

Dr Alison Murray
Desert Research Institute
USA

Professor Uma Ramakrishnan
Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research
India

Dr Marco Todesco
University of British Colombia
Canada

Professor Kees Van Oers
Netherlands Insitute of Ecology
The Netherlands

Professor Cristina Vieira
Claude Bernard University Lyon
France

Associate Professor Maren Wellenreuther
University of Auckland
New Zealand

Dr Kay Hodgins
Monash University
Australia

Professor Jon Bridle
University College London
UK

Associate Professor Andrea Liebl
University of South Dakota
USA

Dr Josefa González
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC, UPF
Spain

EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS

Dr Sandra Álvarez-Carretero
University College London
UK

Associate Professor Dahiana Arcila
University of Oklahoma
USA

Professor Austin Burt
Imperial College London
United Kingdom

Professor Peter Currie
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
Australia

Dr Tim Connallon
Monash University
Australia

Professor Kimberly Cooper
University of California San Diego
USA

Professor Asato Kruoiwa
Hokkaido University
Japan

Associate Professor Ailene Macpherson
Simon Fraser University
Canada

Dr Claire Mérot
CNRS/University of Rennes
France

Professor Qi Zhou
Zhejiang University
China

Associate Professor Sonal Singal
California State University, Dominguez Hills
USA

Associate Professor Keolu Fox
University of California, San Diego
USA

Associate Professor Maria Ávila Arcos
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico

Dr Nicolas Rawlence
University of Otago
New Zealand

Professor Carlos Daniel Cadena
University of Los Andes
Colombia

Associate Professor Lucie Etienne
Centre International de
Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI)
France

Associate Professor Carolina Pardo-Diaz
Universidad del Rosario
Colombia

Professor Helena Westerdahl
Lund University
Sweden

Dr Maria Nieves-Colón
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
USA