We have mapped a new incompletely dominant rust resistance gene from wild wheat progenitor using cool genomic approach. It works well on cultivated wheat background at homozygous state! Check the full story about Yr84 from Curtis Pozniak lab here: nature.com/articles/s4200…

The pangenome of the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis reveals novel transposons associated with necrotrophic effectors ToxA and ToxB dlvr.it/Sbgr66

The pangenome of the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis: a highly plastic Ptr genome, with giant transposons that may have facilitated the evolution of virulence. From Ryan Gourlie Reem Aboukhaddour Megan McDonald Mohamed Hafez Rodrigo O. Polo Wade Abbott &co bit.ly/3sBVgnY

Excited for first in-person meeting since the before-times! The abstract list looks great at the 43rd Annual Plant Pathology Society of Alberta meeting this year, see you soon local pathologists :)

I just published: Authorship — Let’s talk about it! In academia, authorship can be a touchy subject that is all too easy to sidestep. However, it’s always simpler to have a contentious conversation prior to submission. link.medium.com/pNFKYkseMvb

The WI Expert Working Group on #Wheat #Pathogens will have their first WEBINAR! Please find all info here! 👇 👇 👇 wheatinitiative.org/new-events/per… KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 Reem Aboukhaddour

I'll be recruiting postdocs and students to join me: please reach out and keep an eye out for postings! #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Arrived in Edmonton for #BioNetAB2023, looking forward to all the interesting talks, the schedule looks great!

What an amazing #bioinformatics community in Western Canada‼️ #BioNetAB2023 #TagYourself

CPS Photo Contest! Email your image and description to [email protected] OR post on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #CPSphotos2023 Categories: Field, Lab, Microscopic, People, Art Deadline: 11:59 PM PT, June 17, 2023

Happy Transposon Day 2023! Today is the 121st birthday of Barbara McClintock, founder of the #transposon field and Nobel laureate. Please celebrate with us by using the hashtag #TransposonDay2023. How has Barbara McClintock or her work influenced you? mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com

Cereals throw big economic punch producer.com/news/cereals-t… A great reason why funding to field-ready cultivar breeding must be maintained.

Congrats to my MSci student Angus Bucknell who graduated today and published his first first-author paper yesterday!! Angus wrote a mini review on the exciting field of fungal Starship HGT onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QKY8B7VQ…, following in the amazing footsteps of Aaron Vogan and Emile Gluck-Thaler

We are on the hunt for a post-doc to support our Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research funded research project on Zymo! Please reach out to either myself or Graeme Kettles if you have questions! Also a research assistant role for this project to be advertised soon!

Notorious fungus Aspergillus fumigatus completely scrambles its genome after just one bout of sex wur.nl/en/newsarticle… via Wageningen U&R

Very proud to see this out! 3 yrs team work, exploring the tan spot virulence, worldwide and across species, one added step to the overall understanding of emergence of necrotrophs! AAFC Canada Mohamed Hafez Ryan Gourlie Megan McDonald and et al.. apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MP…

Wonderful stripe rust nursery over at AAFC Lethbridge allowing us to see the different lvl of resistance between future Canadian wheat cultivars. Credit to Ryan and Reem for such a wonderful nursery. Grateful for the public-private disease testing.