ABSTRACTS

We invite speakers to submit their abstracts for this premier meeting, which presents an exceptional opportunity to share your work with delegates from academia and industry across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Asia–Pacific region, all of whom are actively engaged in genetics and genomics research, innovation, and application.

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Refer to the Key Dates to note important deadlines. 

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Submissions

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1. Abstracts must be submitted via the official GSA online submission portal here.

2. Submissions must use abstract template to upload their abstracts.

3. Submissions must be the author’s own original work. Submissions must not have been previously presented elsewhere and must not include any content that is plagiarised. 

4. Submissions that are revised, updated, or reworked versions of previous research outcomes will be considered; however, they must not be verbatim reproductions of previously published material.

5. The submitting author is responsible for the accuracy of all information, including spelling, grammar, author details, and affiliations.

6. Where any material included as part of a submission has been authored by another person or persons, the submission must clearly acknowledge the original author and/or source of the material.

7. Any material generated by artificial intelligence must be explicitly identified as such.

8. Presenting authors will be limited to 1 (one).

9. The maximum number of submissions an author can submit is 3 (three).

 

Submission Themes

 

Authors are to nominate their 1st and 2nd preferences to which their submission best aligns. These preferences are to be nominated on the abstract template.

 

​Genetics and genomics in human health and disease
Medical genetics, Cancer genetics, Disease models and mechanisms, Neurogenetics, Genetics and biology of aging, Genome wide association studies, Forensics, Parasites and Pathogens, Microbiomes

 

​Molecular, cellular and developmental genetics
Developmental genetics, Cellular genetics, Neurogenetics, Growth and aging, Cellular signalling and regeneration, plant cellular and developmental genetics,

 

​Genetic and epigenetic regulation
Gene regulation, Epigenetics, Non coding RNAs/RNA biology, Chromatin biology, Genome architecture

 

​Genetics in primary industries
Genetics and genomics in agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture and forestry, biotechnology

 

​Genetics of quantitative traits
Genetics of complex traits, Genome wide association studies, Quantitative genetics

 

​Ecological genetics
Ecological genetics, Landscape genetics, Population genetics, Conservation genetics, Environmental DNA, Phylogeography, Genetics of local adaptation, Invasion genetics, Ecological epigenetics, Genetics of wildlife disease and responses to infection

 

​Evolutionary genetics and comparative genomics
Evolutionary genetics, Comparative genomics, Molecular evolution, Evolution and development, Systematics, Genomes and biodiversity, Paleogenomics, Host/pathogen interactions, Genetic strategies to control pests and disease vectors, Genetics and epigenetics of sex

 

​Bioinformatics and genomics technologies
Bioinformatics/Computational biology, Functional genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, Systems biology, Genome editing

 

​Genetics and genomics in society (education, employability and science communication) ​Genetics education, Employability skills, Science communication. Oral presentations in the Genetics Education session will be eligible for the GSA Award for Innovation in Education.

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Presentation Types

 

Authors will nominate their preferred presentation type – nominated in the portal and on the template:

1. Oral presentation

2. Lightning talk (5min) only

3. Lightning talk and poster

4. Poster only