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  • Rabbit R&D Webinar, 2025

    • 19 Mar 2025
    • 14:00 - 16:00
    • Online
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    This year the annual free Rabbit R&D Webinar, hosted by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions and Foundation for Rabbit-Free Australia, will focus on gene-drive technology.

    It will bring researchers and practitioners together to help people understand this rapidly developing technology, and enable informed discussions within communities about its potential for rabbit control and the issues involved. 

    Key messages

    • This is technically complex research, but the basics aren’t.

    • This will take time and money, and is not without risk, but the technology is feasible, and the risks are manageable.
    • This has great potential but is very challenging and will not ever be a ‘silver bullet’. Traditional ‘best practice’ rabbit management, and investment in research, is essential now and for the foreseeable future.

    Speakers

    • An introduction to gene-drive technology. Prof Paul Thomas
    • A gene-drive for rabbit control. Dr Tanja Strive & Dr Sarah Topfer
    • Dispersal of a gene-drive for rabbit control. Dr Kevin Oh & Dr Heng Lin Yeap

    • Risk Management for gene-drives. Dr Tanja Strive & Dr Aditi Mankad

    • Best practice rabbit control. Nigel Roberts & Heidi Kleinert

    • The way forward. Craig Magnussen

    Attendees

    Everyone who registers:

    • Will receive a link to the webinar via email 24 hours prior to the event.
    • Have opportunities to question speakers via a Q&A function.
    • Get access to on-line reference materials following the webinar. 


    Rabbits cause social, economic and environmental harm.

    (Images F Solly, Darling Downs-Moreton Rabbit Board, R Sinclair)

    For more information, see the Webinar brochure, here.

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    The presentations from the 2024 Rabbit R&D Webinar are available on the CISS YouTube channel, here, and the Rabbit-Free Australia website, here.

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