And that's a wrap for us in 2025! Our group at the @theccdm.bsky.social wishes you all a merry Xmas and happy New Year! 🎄🎅🎆🥳

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! 🤝

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

Tomorrow, 3 Dec! Join our Wheat Pathogens Expert Working Group for “The exploitation of Epichloë endophytes for agricultural advantage.” www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/j... @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat.bsky.social #WheatConnect

Enjoying a midnight @wheatinitiative.bsky.social webinar on a transposon masterclass👩‍🔬 while setting up a slow-cook smoked BBQ🍖 for @theccdm.bsky.social work sundowner tomorrow to wind the week down😎

Save the date: 20 Nov 2025 at 17h. Megan McDonald will present: Jumping Genes and Pathogenic Schemes: the diverse roles that transposons play in pathogen evolution. A must for the pathology community! Info here: www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/m... @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat.bsky.social

How is wheat blast expanding into Uruguay? 🌾 Find out in the latest webinar with Paula Silva INIA UY! “Genomic and Pathogenic Insights into the Range Expansion of Wheat Blast into Uruguay” www.wheatinitiative.org/ewg-pathogens #WheatConnect @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat.bsky.social

We are very happt to share the latest recording of the webinar organised by our Expert Working Group on Wheat Pathogens! “Genomic and Pathogenic Insights into the Range Expansion of Wheat Blast into Uruguay” by Paula SILVA #WheatConnect @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat.bsky.social

@theccdm.bsky.social Student success! @callumverdonk.bsky.social

🌾 We are very happy to announce that the Pest and Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring Workshop recordings are now online! Catch up on all the sessions here: www.wheatinitiative.org/watcha #WheatConnect #PlantHealth

📅 TOMORRW - 23 Oct: Join Paula Silva (INIA Uruguay) on wheat blast’s genomic spread in Uruguay. Hosted by Pathogens EWG. 🔗 www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/p... #WheatConnect @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat.bsky.social

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...

Upcoming Webinar 23 October - Join online! Paula Silva from INIA Uruguay: Genomic and Pathogenic Insights into the Range Expansion of Wheat Blast in Uruguay. Hosted by our Pathogens Expert Working Group. 🔗 wheatinitiative.org/new-events/p... @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat.bsky.social

🚨 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

😍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!!!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

#2025ISMPMI turnout is massive!!!!

Our @theccdm.bsky.social postdoc @callumverdonk.bsky.social got a poster on necrotrophic fungal effector regulation (P-195 Monday 1.30-3.15pm). Come and check it out 💥 #2025ISMPMI

I've got a @theccdm.bsky.social @InterGrain1 poster on wheat powdery mildew pathotyping (P-114)! Come and chat with us on Tuesday 9.55-11.30am! 🙏😀 #2025ISMPMI

Sophie Sent - Blumeria hordei-Bipolaris sorokiniana coinfection breaks down host barley disease resistance #2025ISMPMI

Dingzhong Tang - Pm60 from T.ururtu confers resistance in bread wheat to over 90% Bgt isolates tested #2025ISMPMI

Aaron Lawson - Up and coming protocol for recombinant protein complex expression (powdery mildew MLA-Avr) using Nbenth #2025ISMPMI

Paul Schulze Lefert - sensitivity to Bipolaris sorokinina barley infection wash fluids map to the Srm1 susceptibility gene locus to P. teres f. maculata #2025ISMPMI @theccdm.bsky.social

Traffic management for #2025ISMPMI in Cologne, Germany is on another level! The Tan Lab @theccdm.bsky.social is looking forward to the exciting congress!!

Revolutionary propagandas are making their way around the @theccdm.bsky.social after @ShotaMorikawa69 PhD exit seminar. Dissidents 🤔must be reported @kgagalova.bsky.social! 🤣🤣🤣

Marching towards the end of his PhD! Shota Morikawa presenting his exciting exit seminar on effector regulation in Parastagonospora nodorum @theccdm.bsky.social

💥CONGRATS! @theccdm.bsky.social @InterGrain PhD student Ancy Tony won a runner-up award 🏆 for her poster on "Australian Wheat Powdery Mildew Pathotyping" #ICRPMC2025. What a way to finish the meeting So proud! 😎

🌾 Exciting! ‪@reemwheat.bsky.social‬, @karchuntan.bsky.social chairs of our Pathogens EWG met Silvia German, former member of our Scientific Board and PaulaSilva, from our member INIA, Uruguay! All attending the 17th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference #ICRPMC2025