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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Webinar 23 Oct
Join in for a talk by Dr Paula Silva (INIA, Uruguay):
"Genomic and Pathogenic Insights into the Range Expansion of Wheat Blast into Uruguay."
Hosted by our Pathogens EWG
🔗 www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/p...
#WheatConnect
@karchuntan.bsky.social
@ReemWheat.bsky.social

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 15d

They probably wake up to death by snake bites and shark attacks. I called that even....

KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 16d

Jezus... What did you subscribe to?

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 17d

😍Our @theccdm.bsky.social @InterGrain1 PhD student @tony_ancy will provide an update on her research to dissect Australian wheat powdery mildew this Friday. Please come along if you are in town!!!

Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 17d

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 26 September, come hear from CCDMs Ancy Tony as she explores Developing Genetic Resistance in Wheat to Powdery Mildew 🌾

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social !

KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 19d

@callumverdonk.bsky.social

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 19d

Our @theccdm.bsky.social postdoc @callumverdonk.bsky.social came up with the goods @cbsmwa.bsky.social!!! Congrats on the New Investigator Award! 🏆💪 #CBSMWA #CBSMWA2025

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Callum Verdonk @callumverdonk.bsky.social · 20d

Big thank you to @cbsmwa.bsky.social for letting me waffle on about my work on Pf2 and it's role in effector regulation! #effectors #CBSMWA #CBSM @theccdm.bsky.social @karchuntan.bsky.social

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 20d

📢💥Team work pays off!!! Looks @theccdm.bsky.social lads found a new epistasis-regulated (probable) necrotrophic effector from Stago nodorum @callumverdonk.bsky.social @ShotaMorikawa69

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CBSM WA @cbsmwa.bsky.social · 20d

Engaging Biological Science New Investigator session featuring Pelina Toprak, Callum Verdonk, Samalka Wijeweera and Johannes Debler. Hearing about microbes as our mighty chemical engineers from Pelina, to an intriguing story of gene exchange from Johannes. #CBSMWA #CBSMWA2025

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CBSM WA @cbsmwa.bsky.social · Sep 7

Welcome Dr Peter Solomon, our CBSM 2025 plenary speaker! Dr Solomon has generated over 150 research articles making significant progress in understanding the intricacies of plant-microbe interactions and how these impact our economic and food security.

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 24d

1,2,3...The @theccdm.bsky.social lads teamed up for an effector bioassay experiment 😁 @callumverdonk.bsky.social

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Aug 26

Student spotlight🌾 Ancy Tony is a PhD student working on a studentship partnership with #InterGrain to focus on developing genetic resistance in wheat to powdery mildew, caused by the fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis. 🧬🌱
#theGRDC #CurtinUni @karchuntan.bsky.social

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is shaping out to be a very good presentation by Leon on the interplay between tan/yellow leaf spot and septoria nodorum blotch of wheat. @theccdm.bsky.social collab with @DPIRDbroadacre and @agtbreeding @dionbenAGT

If you are in town this Friday, please join us at Curtin!

Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on @CurtinUni campus Friday 22 August, come hear from CCDM's Leon Lenzo as he explores Fair Weather Friends: Unequal partnerships in polymicrobial wheat disease🌾🦠

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Aug 6

PhD thesis submission time! 📗🔬

🥳🍾Big congrats to @theccdm.bsky.social @ShotaMorikawa69 for putting together a fine thesis on fungal effector regulation! 💪🤯

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Jul 31

Its that time of the year when wheat spot blotch pops out.🌾

@theccdm.bsky.social Leon Lenzo is out to collect samples to test our lesion morphology imaging and Parastagonospora nodorum/Py tritici-repentis co-infection bioassay in collab with
@agtbreeding

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Callum Verdonk @callumverdonk.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today at INRAe! @karchuntan.bsky.social discusses how co-infection by necrotrophic fungi BREAKS DOWN disease resistance in wheat @inrae-france.bsky.social @ifudal.bsky.social @theccdm.bsky.social

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you @ifudal.bsky.social & @soyer_jessica for hosting us @inrae-france.bsky.social 🙏🇫🇷

Plenty of productive discussions on all things fungal!!! @theccdm.bsky.social @callumverdonk.bsky.social

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our @theccdm.bsky.social @callumverdonk.bsky.social talks about effector regulation in Parastagonospora nodorum in @inrae-france.bsky.social hosted by @ifudal.bsky.social

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Jul 17

@teamthomma.bsky.social - a new antimicrobial effector prediction tool is available. This will be useful #2025ISMPMI

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Jul 16

Want to find out more about publishing your work in @mpmijournal.bsky.social? Please visit us at our @ismpmi.bsky.social stand at #2025ISMPMI

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · Jul 14

Fabrizio menardo - Breakdown of Pm17 mediated resistance of wheat powdery mildew through AvrPm17 evolution in Blumeria graminis #2025ISMPMI

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ryohei Terauchi presents on the effectors and cognate resistance genes in Magnaporthe oryzae and rice 🌾

Recent work investigates the binding of NLRs integrated domains by the AVR proteins - bait for immune signaling.
#2025ISMPMI

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jul 13

Incredibly inspiring talk about the discovery of the more than 200 immune systems in bacteria by Rotem Sorek.

From computational discovery in 2018 through functional and structural analyses, even linking bacterial immune systems to that of eukaryotes.
#2025ISMPMI

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Isabel saur @izzysaurlab.bsky.social · Jul 13

Beat Keller from Uni Zürich giving the final keynote of the Powdery mildew workshop #2025ISMPMI Overview of a whole very very successful career in the field!

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