GeneMappers Conferences

The Australian GeneMapping conferences began in 1999 and have been convened every 18 months since then.

The 2009 GeneMappers Conference, to be held from April 14-17, in the heritage-listed Carrington Hotel in the World-heritage listed Blue Mountains region of NSW Australia, is the 7th in the series.

• 1999: Inaugural GeneMappers Conference, 9–12 February,
              Boden Meeting, Thredbo, NSW
• 2001: 2nd GeneMappers Conference, 22-23 July,
              Cairns Convention Centre, Qld
• 2002: 3rd GeneMappers Conference, 4-6 December,
              Hobart Function and Conference Centre, Hobart Tas
• 2004: 4th GeneMappers Conference, 10-11 August,
              Esplanade Hotel Fremantle Perth, WA
• 2005: 5th GeneMappers Conference, 23 - 25 November,
              La Trobe University, Mt. Buller, Victoria
• 2007: 6th GeneMappers Conference, 29-31 August,
              Brisbane, Qld

Themes and Programs

Framework:
The GeneMappers Conferences are organised as single-session meetings. Their main purpose is to draw together the divergent research areas represented in the field of Genetic mapping and provide common threads and themes, and shared technical and theoretical platforms. Academic fields represented include: statistics, medicine and genetics

The aim:
To advance collaborative research leading to understanding and eventually cures, for the major diseases represented at the meeting. A long-term goal, and one which we believe is achievable in the context of such highly-charged discussions, open sharing of data and challenge to established thinking, as is evidenced in the GeneMappers Conferences.

Sponsors
The Convenors and committees are immensely grateful to the companies who support this research and from whom we have gained much in terms of product development and support. This is an on-going process as the academic research and supporting technologies develop.

Sponsoring Academic institutions include:
The University of Queensland
The University of New South Wales
The University of Western Australia
NHMRC through The Australian Twin Registry
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Sponsoring Companies include:
ABI
AGRF
Geneworks
GlaxoSmithKline
Illumina
Millennium Science
Sequenom