𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🌾 Curtin PhD student Yutathkarn Coles is tackling net form net blotch in barley using cutting-edge epigenetics & bioinformatics. His work aims to uncover histone-driven disease dynamics & boost pre-breeding immunity. @curtinuniversity.bsky.social, #GRDC

✨ Happy Holidays from all of us at CCDM! 🎉🌾 Thank you to our amazing team, collaborators & partners for your support in 2025. 🌱🧬 Wishing you joy & relaxation—see you in 2026! We’re back Jan 5. 🌟

🌾 Science in Action: CCDM’s Top 5 Highlights of 2025 🌾 From triple fungicide resistance to breakthroughs in canola disease management, here’s some of the top highlights that shaped 2025! 👉 Read here : buff.ly/OE4ZdNB curtinuniversity.bsky.social, #GRDC

🌾 Central NSW growers – how’s the season finishing up for you? In our latest CCDM Spotlight, @em_ayliffe & @MarkGibberd discuss the tight finish and strategies for managing crown rot next year 👀 🦠 📹 Watch the video here: youtu.be/ij6CAu7ljWM 📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/sjhvmrz

We’re thrilled to share that Hediyeh Tahghighi has won Second Place in the Life Sciences category of the 2025 LMA/VIA Image Competition for her entry: “Microscopic Invasion: Ascochyta vs Chickpea.” Congratulations, Hediyeh!🎉 #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social, hediyeht.bsky.social

🌾 How’s is the season wrapping up for WA? In our latest CCDM Spotlight, David Lane & @MarkGibberd discuss the season, new diseases popping up and plans for next year 👀 🦠 📹 Watch the video here: youtu.be/fPGzD3E7gDE 📰 Read the seasonal update here: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd...

The paper submission smile @tony_ancy! 😃 Always been a pleasure to guide @theccdm.bsky.social post-graduate students in closing out a project with the submission of their first manuscript draft for peer review! 😍

Our PhD student @tony_ancy 👩‍🎓identified evidence of distinct Australian wheat powdery mildew pathotypes and sources of strong resistance against the disease🌾 A @theccdm.bsky.social x @InterGrain1 collab! 🤝

🌏 Spotlight Seasonal Update 🌏 The 2025 season is coming to an end and harvesting is nearly done. Here, CCDM gathers 4 local updates from around Australia on how it’s getting along. 📰 Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd... #GRDC #CurtinUni

Our @theccdm.bsky.social preprint on the domain function and interactors of the effector-regulating transcription factor PnPf2 in Parastagonospora nodorum is live! 😁 Led by Shota Morikawa @callumverdonk.bsky.social Collabs 👉 @danielcroll.bsky.social @evan-john.bsky.social

🌾 Fungicide resistance happens when fungi survive repeated exposure to the same fungicide group-making disease control harder. That’s why AFREN exists: to help growers manage resistance & protect grain production. Credit: ROC-Engagement and Impact #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌟 CCDM researchers represented with pride at major conferences across Australia! ✅ Canberra: Biometry in the Bush Capital 2025 & Stromlo Plant Pathology ✅ Adelaide: ASPS-2025 From talks to posters, our team shared cutting-edge plant science research. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social, #BIBC2025

𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭🌾 Meet Asiri Padukka Vidanalage, a PhD student working to unlock SNB resistance by cloning key susceptibility gene in wheat and analysing plant signalling pathways. Advancing crop protection for a sustainable future! @curtinuniversity.bsky.social #GRDC

#strompath25 continues with @tobyenewman.bsky.social taking us through RNA interference in sclerotinia diseases …

Congratulations to @larskamphuis.bsky.social on his appointment as Deputy Director of the Centre for Crop and Disease Management!🎉 Lars has been a research group leader with CCDM since 2016, driving innovation in crop protection and sustainable agriculture. 🌱 #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 5 Dec, come hear from 10x Genomics, Geoff McDermott, as he explores: Cellular Insights in Plant Science: A New Era of Single Cell and Spatial Profiling 🧫🌿

CCDM made a big impact at MLS Symposium 2025! 🎉 Congrats to our award winners: 🏆 Viet-Cuong Han – Graeme Robertson Award 🎤 Nimllash Thangam & Naomi Gray – Best Oral Presentation 📊 Mohitul Hossain – Best Poster #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

CCDM hosted the AAGI/GGA Experimental Design Workshop! Led by Adam Sparks, Barbara Kachigunda & Rose Megirian, it equipped grower groups with skills in: ✅ Trial design & protocols ✅ Managing outliers ✅ Planning field trials Proud to support best practices in experimental design! #GRDC

🌿 CCDM is at the Stromlo Plant Pathology Conference 2025! 🌍🔬 Our researchers are sharing cutting-edge work on crop disease management at ANU. 📅 27–28 Nov 🗣 Talks on RNA interference, fungicide dynamics & more. 🔗 www.wheatbiosecurity.com/10th-stromlo... #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌱 Stronger Lentils Ahead! Breeders now have new markers for developing lentil varieties with improved Ascochyta blight resistance. CCDM researchers have mapped the genetic regions that help lentils fight off this pathogen. 📖 doi.org/10.1002/tpg2... #theGRDC #CurtinUni @larskamphuis.bsky.social

Congratulations to Julia Easton & James Hare - now Associate Professors! Julia leads C4AP for farm profitability & sustainability. James builds bioinformatics power to fight crop disease. CCDM is proud to foster talent & advance agriculture! 🌱 @curtinuniversity.bsky.social #GRDC

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday November 21st, come hear from CCDM'S Kat Zulak as she explores aerial surveillance for antimicrobial resistance detection 🌱

Make sure to add next week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Wednesday November 19, come hear from AMU foundation Vice-President Marcin Smiglak, as he explores Commercialising Designable Salicylates Beyond the Lab 🔬

Thrilled to announce… #AFREN received a High Commendation at the 2025 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards in the Industry Engagement Category 🌟 Supporting the grains industry to tackle fungicide resistance🌱 Congratulations to everyone involved! #theGRDC #CurtinUni #EngagementAustralia

Student spotlight🌾 Kai Bagley is a PhD student developing multivariate spatial models for on-farm experiments using multilayer sensor data. His work will help growers make more reliable, data-driven agronomic decisions. 🧠📊 #theGRDC #CurtinUni #foodagility

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 7th Nov, come hear from CCDM’s Toby Newman as he investigates Exploring cross-kingdom RNA interference at the Sclerotinia–host interface 🧬

Student spotlight🌾 Isobel Screaigh was an Honours student at CCDM whose research on fungal transcription factors just led to a published paper - doi.org/10.1099/acmi... She now works at DAFF as a molecular biologist, identifying plant pathogens using DNA sequencing. #theGRDC #CurtinUni

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 31st Oct, come hear from CCDM’s Huyen Phan as she explores Transposon-associated adaptation of the Australian Parastagonospora nodorum population 🌾

🧪 Fungicide resistance: how it develops, how we fight it 🌾 Hear from CCDM’s Nola D’Souza on the GRDC podcast 🎙️ as she shares how resistance is tracked in the lab, the role of AFREN & how growers can slow its spread. 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/3WFUEMY 💻 AFREN: afren.com.au #theGRDC #CurtinUni

WHY USE #YEAST AS A TOOL WHEN YOU'VE GOT STAGO?😁 Out now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, our collab @theccdm.bsky.social led by @labkatz.bsky.social and Fran Lopez-Ruiz developed Parastagonospora nodorum as a tool to study #fungicideresistance genes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our @theccdm.bsky.social @CurtinEand #advancedscience student @CarliaHerbst turn to present her research on protein-protein interactions in Parastagonospora nodorum 😎. @callumverdonk.bsky.social

Our @CurtinEandA @theccdm.bsky.social #advancedscience student 👨‍🎓Keshara Thanthrige (right) presenting his research assessment on the development of selectable marker recycling♻️ in a fungal pathogen. Well done mate! 👏 @ShotaMorikawa69 @callumverdonk.bsky.social

Do we need to reassess how disease resistance ratings on crops are determined? 🤔 Our @theccdm.bsky.social preprint revealed co-infection of wheat by P. nodorum & P. tritici-repentis breaks down resistance BUT there is a CAVEAT www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 24th Oct, come hear from CCDM’s Research Students as they introduce themselves and provide snapshots on their research 🧪🔬

🎉 Huge congrats to Dr Fatima Naim on winning a Young Tall Poppy Science Award! 🌱 Her groundbreaking work in plant physiology & disease tolerance is helping fight crop disease and boost resilience. 👩🔬 #theGRDC #CurtinUni #AIPS

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 17th Oct, come hear from APPN's, Dr Hammad Khan & A/Prof Nic Taylor as they explore Phenotyping of Crops using Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN) Facilities 🌱

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 10 Oct, come hear from CCDM’s Arundhati Singh as she explores From seed to leaf: mapping fluxapyroxad dynamics 🍃

🌾 WA growers – how’s the season going for you? In our latest CCDM Spotlight, David Lane & Mark Gibberd discuss the season, early fungicide application and future planning 👀 🦠 📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/uspzo3h

Big reveal today! After uncovering the #sclerotinia in canola trial at @curtinuniversity.bsky.social for the first time in a week, we see exceptionally good and seemingly consistent infections! @theccdm.bsky.social @tobyenewman.bsky.social

🌾 Central NSW growers – how’s the season going for you? In our latest CCDM Spotlight, Emma Ayliffe & Mark Gibberd discuss the low foliar disease pressure and how for dryland croppers eyes are turning to crown rot 👀 🦠 📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/UYxx6Nt

🌏 Spotlight Seasonal Update 🌏 The 2025 season has begun; some early crops are on their way and some are just emerging now. We got 4 local updates from around Australia earlier this month on how it’s starting out. 📰 Read more: buff.ly/uspzo3h

🌾 Canola field trials in action at @CurtinUni! 🌾 We're testing 9 varieties across 660 plants to better understand resistance to Sclerotinia stem rot. Covered plots + red rice inoculation = ideal conditions for disease development. 🍚🦠 #theGRDC #CurtinUni @mcderbyshire.bsky.social

Our fungicide resistance team joined the Stirlings to Coast Farmers field day last week sharing insights and collecting disease samples. Leon Hodgson & Nola D’Souza gave some great updates on fungicide testing, resistance mapping & AFREN 🌿 📷: #Stirlings2Coast #theGRDC #CurtinUni

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

Dr. @jamespblloyd.bsky.social and @theccdm.bsky.social Dr. Liz Czislowski wrapping up the Biodiversity session at @cbsmwa.bsky.social with synthetic gene circuits for plants in space and novel nucleic acid based nanoparticle fungicides

Having fun at @cbsmwa.bsky.social presenting work on "The Entity", a circular genetic element we keep finding in unrelated fungal plant pathogens. #cbsmwa @theccdm.bsky.social

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

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 🌾

🌱 It’s been a brilliant week at #IFLRC2025 & #APC2025 in Perth! 🔬 CCDM kicked things off with the welcome reception and we had great talks from @larskamphuis.bsky.social & Bernadette Henares, plus posters from CCDM staff. 🎉Congrats to all that worked hard to run this conference. #theGRDC #CurtinUni

Come see Peter at #CBSMWA on Friday and at @theccdm.bsky.social on Thursday :-)