Our March2026 Phytogen celebrates Women in Aus Plant Science for #IWD with guest editor @alisonrbentley.bsky.social We hope you enjoy the issue as we bring stories from female researchers at all levels of career paths. Read it here:
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Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 12pm, come hear from CCDM’s Johannes Debler as he explores Strange New Elements: Silenced genes and rogue DNA in fungal plant pathogens 🧬
🌍 CCDM on the global stage 🌾
CCDM researchers are heading to the 21st Reinhardsbrunn Symposium (19–23 Apr, Germany), delivering presentations and posters on fungicide resistance, biosecurity and crop protection.
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🔬 CCDM scientists found that the order of infection between yellow leaf spot and septoria nodorum blotch can dramatically change disease severity in wheat. 🌾
🔗 Read here groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/announc...
🎥 Hear what it means for growers & breeders.
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📄 Paper published!
CCDM researchers have conducted the first study comparing long‑read annotation tools using a plant dataset.
🔗 Read more doi.org/10.1093/bioa...
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Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 17, come hear from CCDM’s Ulduz Vafadarshamasbi as she explores From Data Layers to Crop Improvement: Panning Epigenetic Landscapes to Decode Complex Traits ⌨️🌿
🔬 New insights from CCDM reveal infection order matters.
When yellow leaf spot (YLS) infects first, it primes wheat for septoria nodorum blotch (SNB) — but when SNB strikes first, it suppresses YLS.
🔗 Read here: groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/announc...
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Fungicide resistance is no longer a future risk — it’s a current challenge for Australian grain growers.
📰 Read about the DMEN project.
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🎥 Watch the video to learn about Fungicide Resistance Guide
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Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 10 Apr, come hear from CCDM’s Yutathkarn Coles as he explores Unpacking genomic drivers underpinning rapid adaptation of Net Form Net Blotch disease 🌾
Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Apr 17, come hear from CCDM’s Jade Davis as she explores Alternative splicing in the net blotch pathosystem 🧬
Great to see Adam Sparks and Braden Thorne presenting at the Soilborne Disease Initiative Forum, sharing research to help reduce the impact of soil‑borne diseases on Australian grain growers. 🌾
🔗 groundcover.grdc.com.au/weeds-pests-...
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Fungicide resistance is a growing challenge to disease control🌾
Missed Dr Nola D’Souza at GRDC Perth 2026? Watch her CCDM talk on AFREN’s work supporting best‑practice resistance management.
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Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Mar 27, come hear from CCDM's Shota Morikawa as he explores A New Identity for a Cryptic Class of Transcription Factors and The Extra Piece That Finished the Puzzle: Uncovering the Key to Hypervirulence 🧩
Come along and check out this extra Milestone 1 CCDM Seminar talk📆
If you're on @CurtinUni campus Mon Mar 23, hear from CCDM's Pavel Misiun as he explores harnessing structural bioinformatics and AI to study crop disease mechanisms 👩💻
Fungal diseases are costing Australian grain growers and traditional fungicides are losing effectiveness. 🌾
Watch Elizabeth Czislowski's Grains Updates talk on DNA origami nanoparticles as a new way to fight fungal pathogens.
🎥 www.ccdm.com.au/video/nanosc...
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Getting more value from fungicides means understanding how they move and persist inside crops — and where protection falls short. 🌾
Missed Jordi Muria‑Gonzalez at GRDC Grains Updates 2026? Watch his CCDM talk here
🎥 www.ccdm.com.au/video/unders...
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Our new effector discovery tool EffectorFisher, a GWAS-alternative which combines pangenome-mined protein-isoform profiles and disease phenotyping, tested on P. nodorum and Z. tritici www.nature.com/articles/s41... @theccdm.bsky.social
🌏 Harmony Week is a time to celebrate diversity, inclusion and belonging.
At CCDM, our strength comes from the different cultures, backgrounds and perspectives that shape our work and drive innovation in science.
🧡 Everyone belongs.
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🎤 CCDM speaker at SPAA Precision Ag Expo 2026
Associate Professor Julia Easton will present Mapping variability: Data, decisions and the shift toward automation, exploring how spatial data is shaping smarter, more automated farming systems. 🌾📊
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🎉 GRDC Perth updates are live!
Papers & recordings from the 2026 GRDC Grains Research Update are now online. Proud to see CCDM research supporting Australian growers 🌾🔬
🎥https://www.ccdm.com.au/resources/?category=videos
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Check out this video featuring GRDC Research Fellow Dr Elizabeth Czislowski (CCDM), whose work is exploring emerging technologies and blue‑sky ideas to protect crops and strengthen farming systems into the future. 🌾🔬
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💻 Student Spotlight 💻
Meet PhD student Naomi Gray, whose research at CCDM uses advanced bioinformatics to uncover how fungal pathogens specialise to infect crops—supporting smarter disease diagnosis and surveillance for growers.
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Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 13 Mar, come hear from UWA’s Adil Khan as he explores Synthetic Gene Circuits for Programming Plants 🧬
🌏 International Women’s Day
Today we celebrate the incredible women at CCDM driving innovation in plant pathology. We’re highlighting Grace Fang, Research Associate in the wheat powdery mildew team.
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Meet Technical Operations Coordinator Ketesse Hansen.
Her career has spanned physics, outreach, safety, medical equipment repair — and now crop disease research. This #IWD2026, we’re celebrating incredible and inspiring women like Ketesse at CCDM. 💜🔬
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Fungicide resistance is rising—so researchers are looking beyond chemistry. GRDC Research Fellow Dr Elizabeth Czislowski is exploring DNA nanoparticles to disrupt fungal pathogens, starting with septoria nodorum blotch.
Read here 🔗 groundcover.grdc.com.au/weeds-pests-...
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As we lead up to #IWD2026, we’re celebrating Hediyeh Tahghighi, Research Assistant at CCDM, whose work on lentil & chickpea Ascochyta blight is strengthening crop resilience.
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🎉 Congratulations to CCDM’s Johannes Debler on being a recipient of the 2026 Regional and Remote Science Meets Parliament Scholarship. A well‑deserved recognition highlighting the importance of regional and remote science 👏
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🌾 GRDC Grains Research Update – Kalannie.
Hear from leading ag experts on the current state of play for the region. CCDM’s Nola D’Souza will be sharing insights and management strategies for fungicide resistance.
Sign up here 👉 buff.ly/WPB21wO
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As we lead up to #IWD2026, we’re celebrating Kristina Gagalova, Bioinformatics Scientist and part of AGGI, whose work bridges cutting‑edge genomics with real‑world agricultural impact.
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