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Congratulations to CSIRO on the development of this new tool that will have a tremendous impact in Australia and across the globe. cosmosmagazine.com/nature/csiro-i… As an early supporter of this work, we are so pleased at the outcome and well-deserved attention to all those involved!

Million years old recombination suppression and balancing selection in a region linked to the mating-type locus in the invasive chestnut blight fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our PhD student Eva's preprint! She assembled a HiFi/HiC 30-haplotype pangenome of the dikaryotic oat crown rust fungus and found many cool things (plus she made awesome figures 😎)

Our paper "Strain-specific evolution and host-specific regulation of transposable elements in the model plant symbiont Rhizophagus irregularis" is out at G3 Nicolas Corradi Genetics Society of America doi.org/10.1093/g3jour…

The latest version of AlphaFold models how proteins interact with other molecules — but DeepMind restricts access to the tool go.nature.com/4dsMcYP

Thrilled to announce AlphaFold 3 which can predict the structures and interactions of nearly all of life’s molecules with state-of-the-art accuracy including proteins, DNA and RNA. Biology is a complex dynamical system so modeling interactions is crucial blog.google/technology/ai/…

📢Job alert 📢 Are you a 🌾🍄🧪postdoc who is passionate about plant science & thrives in a team, but is ready to move on from academia? Come join our group to discover plant pathogen biology & work towards disease resistance engineering! jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2… Melania Figueroa

I’m very happy to share that our work on programmable and reversible CRISPRi-based circuits  in plants is now published in Nature Biotechnology. nature.com/articles/s4158… Here is a summary of our key findings👇

🔥This position is now online! CSIRO job reference # 96632 linkedin.com/jobs/view/3928…

Resurgence of wheat stem rust infections in western Europe: causes and how to curtail them Lewis et al. Diane Saunders John Innes Centre University of Exeter 📖 ow.ly/uNWK50RXSOs

So pleased to see our Nature Plants paper is out on Nature Plants 🥳🎉 Check a plot twist on the interaction between the effector from M. oryzae AVR-Pita and a known resistance protein here 🌾🍄 doi.org/10.1038/s41477… A huge thanks to all collaborators Thomas Kroj Maël Baudin

We are excited to share our updated manuscript for our NLRseek program! This is a unique partnership between @2Blades, The Sainsbury Laboratory, and the Kaneka Corporation. Thank you to our co-authors for this success Matthew Moscou @PeterVanesse @kamiljwitek @UMNPlantPath Results: 🧵

Happy to share our preprint on the AD assay, a novel method that significantly accelerates and simplifies AVR identification in Blumeria graminis! For more details on the method and how we used it to identify AvrPm60, check out the thread by first author @L_E_Kunz

Excited to see our peer-reviewed work on recurrent horizontal mini-chromosome transfer in the blast fungus now out! ✨ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… Thanks team 🌈 Sergio Latorre Thorsten Langner Sophien Kamoun Hernán A. Burbano Yu Sugihara Joe Win Adeline Harant Angus Malmgren

“Energised and inspired to kick off another academic semester!”

🌾🧬 Keeping cereal crops free of rust disease relies on a decades-old surveillance system where plant pathologists run diagnostics on samples from across Australia. Now, the toolkit available to process those samples is being expanded by researchers at CSIRO. Read more:

The 2025 New Phytologist Tansley Medal competition is open! This is a unique and prestigious prize that is awarded annually to an early career plant scientist. The deadline is 1 November: newphytologist.org/awards/tansley…

Jana Sperschneider giving a masterclass on the complexity of fungal effector gene prediction #IWC2024perth

“We’re very excited to see what people do with this” AlphaFold3 is open at last go.nature.com/4fHAfio

An emerging fungal disease is spreading across the globe and affecting the blueberry industry - Bradshaw - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…