Genomics Aotearoa is a collaborative research platform for genomics and bioinformatics

PhD student Cesar Facimoto leads a session at the recent annual Genomics Aotearoa Metagenomics Summer School at the University of Auckland. Now into its third year, we have again attracted bioinformaticians and students from organisations throughout the country, learning vital data assembly and analysis skills that underpin genomics research and capability for Aotearoa.

Research has just been published revealing the cause of the 2019 pandemic that wiped out around 4% of all kākāpō in New Zealand.

Our Genome: Science of Life exhibition in partnership with Tūhura Otago Museum returns on November 7, and will run until and February 19 2023. The revamped exhibition promises even more fun for the whole family. Admission is free.

A lack of consensus among international conservation regimes regarding albatross taxonomy makes management of these ocean roaming birds tricky. Imogen Foote's PhD research aims to generate whole genome data for some of our most threatened albatrosses in a first attempt to bring their taxonomy into the genomic era.