The future of genetics in Australia Program
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Wednesday 8 February, Senate Alcove Parliament House Canberra
11.30 amOpen by Phil Batterham
11.35 am
Introductory comments by Industry Minister
Ian McFarlane
11.45 am FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: Boosting production and
creating new functional foods and pharmaceuticals.
Chair: Peter Arkle, National Farmers
Federation
• Jim Peacock, CSIRO Plant Industries
• Shaun Coffey, Chief CSIRO Livestock Industries
• Rod Griffin, Chief Executive Officer, CRC for
Forestry
• German Spangenberg, Molecular Plant Breeding CRC
and DPI Victoria
12.30 pm: GENOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: from monitoring
environmental change to conserving and harvesting
Australia’s flora and fauna, to clean water
Chair: Craig Cormick, Manager of Public
Awareness Biotechnology Australia
• Ary Hoffmann, Director of the Centre for
Environmental and Stress Adaptation Research
• Louise Blackall, Advanced Wastewater Management
Centre and Director of Research, Environmental
Biotechnology CRC
• Rob Saint, ARC Special Research Centre for the
Molecular Genetics of Development
PANEL: Sue Forrest, Director of the Australian Genome
Research Facility
1.15 pm
Lunch
2 pm: HEALTH AND MEDICINE: from cancer and infectious
diseases to understanding fertility and human development
Chair: Doug Hilton, Walter and Eliza Hall
Institute
• Brandon Wainwright, Institute of Molecular
Bioscience
• Alex Adrianopoulos, Howard Hughes Fellow in the
Genetics Department, University of Melbourne
• Chris Goodnow, Director of the Australian Phenomics
Facility
• Sue Forrest, Director of the Australian Genome
Research Facility
• Lyle Palmer, WA Genome Health Project
PANEL: John Christodoulou, Western Sydney Genetics,
Westmead Children’s Hospital
2.45 pm PESTS, PLAGUES AND BIOSECURITY: The role of
genomics past/present and future in protecting Australia
from invaders
Chair: Deborah Smith, Science Writer, Sydney
Morning Herald
• Phil Batterham, Bio21 and University of Melbourne
Genetics Department
• Ben Adler, Department of Microbiology, Monash
University
PANEL: Shaun Coffey - Genetics and biosecurity
3.30pm
Break
3.45 pm: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS: to illustrate that
there's money in genomics, that is enabled agricultural and
human biotechnology
Chair: Anna Lavelle, CEO, Ausbiotech
• John Oakeshott, Strategy Director CSIRO Entomology
• Jeremy Burdon, Chief CSIRO Plant Industries
• Richard Harrison, Applied Biosystems
4.15 pm: DISCOVERY AND BASIC SCIENCE: the big questions
Chair: Tim Thwaites, New Scientist
• Rob Saint, Director, ARC Special Research Centre
for the Molecular Genetics of
Development
• Merlin Crossley, School of Molecular and Microbial
Biosciences, University of Sydney
• John Mattick, Professor of Molecular Biology and
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
4.45 pm
The future for genomics – reviewing
the day
5.30 pm
Break
6 pm
Cocktail function
7.30pm
Program concludes
