
The Florida Genetics Symposium, hosted by the University of Florida Genetics Institute, attracts genetics and genomics researchers, students, and industries from across the world. Speakers from a variety of institutions will present and discuss genetics and genomics topics, organized into three sessions: Metabolic Regulation (Gene Expression), Gene Editing (Plants), and Microbial Genetics. The event will be held from 12:30PM – 6:15PM on Nov. 5 and 8:00AM – 6:00PM on Nov. 6, 2025 at the Straughn Center. The UF Genetics Institute looks forward to welcoming you to the Florida Genetics Symposium 2025.
Poster Session: Our poster session is now full for this year. Thank you for your interest!
Registration: Registration for guaranteed food and swag is now closed. However, we will have an overflow room on site. Please attend anyway, we would love to have you. We also will be streaming all speaking sessions via Zoom. Stay tuned!


Thomas Burris (Chairperson), Mariola Ferraro, Mingyi Xie, Yan Gong, Danxin Wang, Xiaofei Bai, Arun Srivastava, Tie Liu, Cody Barnes
Cody Barnes, Kelley Gentry, Amy Davis, Thaddeus Suggs