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Ahead of #IWD2025, we’re highlighting incredible women at CCDM! 👩‍🔬🌾 Meet Dr. Huyen Phan, leading research on genetic resistance to fungal diseases of wheat. Her work helps wheat breeders develop more resistant varieties—reducing grower costs & improving sustainability. 🌱💡

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💥A post-doc position 💥💥on wheat powdery mildew evolution and genomics is available in my lab @theccdm.bsky.social in Australia. Get in touch with me for more info! #ECFG17 www.seek.com.au/job/82416351...

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🚨I'm on this arvo (CS2.1.1) with an oral presentation on fungal effector regulation and ChIP-Seq. Come and check it out! @theccdm.bsky.social #ECFG17

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Come and check out our @theccdm.bsky.social posters on effector regulation (P2.114) and non-host fungal effectors (P2.113) today #ECFG17

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@jwdebler.bsky.social of @theccdm.bsky.social got a poster (P2.128) on a mysterious genomic 'Loop' today #ECFG17

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Safer Weed Control? A New Dicamba Alternative! 🌱 Researchers at CCDM & UWA have developed a non-volatile dicamba derivative to reduce herbicide drift and protect non-target crops! 🔬 Read more: buff.ly/eNRNsgp #CurtinUni #UWA #Chemistry

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🚨 Catch @karchuntan.bsky.social at the 17th European Conference on Fungal Genetics #ECFG17 Hear from KC on Tues 4 March, 2pm presenting "Armed with the ‘Red Button’"—exploring how Parastagonospora nodorum activates its effector arsenal to infect wheat 🌾🧬 👉 https://buff.ly/4k5ANRW #GRDC #Curtin

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Congratulations to #theCCDM PhD student Mohitul Hossain, who gave an excellent presentation today in the New Researcher Session at #GRDCUpdates, on our new methods for phenotype-associated effector prediction and pangenome-based effector and fungicide-resistance screening. @theccdm.bsky.social

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Day 2 of #GRDCUpdates is well underway 👏 Leon Hodgson kicked off some of the first concurrent sessions as he showcased the new PRIM tool 🌱 Co-developed by the CCDM and NGIS through GRDC’s AAGI program, the PRIM tool shows where resistance is most prevalent 👩‍💻 #GRDC #AAGI #NGIS

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Another great talk by Mark Derbyshire at #GRDCUpdates on new breeding lines and field screening methods for developing sclerotinia stem rot resistant canola cultivars 🌾 Check out some of the key ingredients of a breeding program from Mark’s talk #GRDC #CurtinUni @mcderbyshire.bsky.social

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Brilliant to hear from @labkatz.bsky.social about her career pathway in the #GRDCUpdates panel session on career opportunities in the grains industry 👩‍🔬 “I enjoy that my researchers now has a really direct connection with growers and the industry” 🌱 #GRDC #CurtinUni

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Great job to our CCDM students who just finished presenting at the #GRDCUpdates New Researchers session 👏 Be sure to find them during the updates to ask any burning questions you have on their intriguing research #theGRDC #GRDCWest #CurtinUni

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Reconnecting with a former mentor Dr Siegy Krauss of the Kings Park Botanical Conservation lab who got me hooked on popgen and fungal research almost 26 years ago! 🕙Time flies! @theccdm.bsky.social

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Have you said hi to any of our researchers at #GRDCUpdates at Perth 👋 Plenty of our staff and students will be wandering around over the two day event, ready to chat about all things crop disease 🌱🦠 And don’t miss our stall at the back of the exhibition hall 🚜 #GRDC #CurtinUni

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🎉 Congrats to Leon Hodgson, Fran Lopez-Ruiz, Mark Gibberd, Geoff Thomas & @zerihuna.bsky.social on their @phytopathology.bsky.social Editor’s Pick! 🌾Their field trial on barley net blotch explored fungicide resistance spread💡 📖 https://buff.ly/42Xdbca #GRDC #CurtinUni #DPIRD

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🎤 Catch us at #GRDCUpdates on Monday! Don't miss CCDM's students Mohitul Hossain, Viet-Cuong Han, Anjana Sharma & Varthini Govindaraju Punithan presenting in the New Researchers session. 📅 Mon, 24 Feb | ⏰ 1:40 PM | 📍 Session 8 #GRDC #CurtinUni

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🎫 The #GRDCUpdates Perth 2025 are right around the corner! Catch Leon Hodgson presenting on geospatial mapping of resistance to fungicides; informing disease management practice 👩‍💻 📅 Tue 25 Feb | 🕑 11:45am | 📍Session 14 Crop Protection Register here 👉 https://buff.ly/4gr7XZm #GRDC #AAGI #NGIS

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🤔@ShotaMorikawa @CallumVerdonk found a bunch of non-host effectors from Parastagonospora nodorum using Nbenth 🌱 @theccdm.bsky.social

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🎫 Are you coming to the #GRDCUpdates Perth 2025? Catch @labkatz.bsky.social as she joins a panel discussion on career opportunities in the grains industry 👩‍🌾 📅 Mon 24 Feb | 🕑 4:00pm | 📍 Session 10 Grain Career Opportunities Register here 👉 https://buff.ly/4gr7XZm #GRDC #CurtinUni

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🎫 Have you got your tickets for the #GRDCUpdates Perth 2025? Catch @mcderbyshire.bsky.social presenting on new breeding lines and field screening methods for developing sclerotinia stem rot resistant canola cultivars 🧬 📅 Mon 24 Feb | 🕑 4:35pm | 📍Session 11 Register here 👉 https://buff.ly/4gr7XZm

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🔬🌾 Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬🎉 At CCDM, we’re proud of the incredible women in our centre working to lessen the impact of disease in the Australian grains industry! 👩‍🌾💡 Here’s to empowering women in ag science today & every day! 🚀

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🌍🌱 Happy World Pulses Day! 🌾✨ Pulses like chickpeas, lentils & beans are small but mighty—boosting global food security! 🫘💚 We’re tackling diseases like Ascochyta blight to protect these vital crops for future generations. 🔗https://buff.ly/4huDmLA #GRDC #CurtinUni

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Congrats to Isobel Screaigh🎓, our @theccdm.bsky.social and CHIRI Curtin Honours student got her project on fungal signal transduction done and dusted! #graduation #CurtinUniversity 🥳

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Get ready for our first CCDM Seminar Series talk of the year 📆 If you're on Curtin Bentley campus Friday 14 Feb, come hear from CCDM's Joel Haywood as he explores Dicamba volatility: An industry collaboration & publication story🧬 🧪

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🌾Pathogens are constantly evolving to outsmart crops! Our team analyzed 173 isolates of the fungus behind Stagonospora nodorum blotch🧬 They found it uses DNA mutations like RIP to diversify—while harmful mutations are filtered out🦠 📰 https://buff.ly/4jXm63B @jameskhane.bsky.social

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We’ve just joined Bluesky! 🦋 If you’re exploring the platform too, make sure to give us a follow at @theccdm.bsky.social 🌾✨ We can’t wait to connect with you and continue sharing our work in this new space! 🌱

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Check out CCDM and Proteomics researchers' contributions in Phytophthora: Methods and Protocols! 📖✨ Chapter 15 explores how proteomics reveals a biochemical snapshot of oomycetes like Phytophthora. 🌱🔬 📗https://buff.ly/40H7GwO 👏 Congrats to the team! @karchuntan.bsky.social

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