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 ⌨️🌿
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 🧬
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 🧩
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 🧬
Australian scientists crack the code on ghost gun tracing
#AusNews #GhostGuns #Forensics #LawEnforcement #CurtinUni #AusPol
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Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 27 at 12pm, come hear from CCDM’s Rachael Crockett as she explores From PPE to petals: Rethinking insect control in research environments 🪲🌸
New unit at Curtin: ENST2007 Landscapes, Soils and Surface Environments! Teaches soil formation, hydrology, biogeochemical cycles, Indigenous knowledge, two-way science for sustainable land mgt.
Read more: research.curtin.edu.au/scieng/resea...
#SoilScience #LandscapeScience #CurtinUni #SDGs 🧪🔬🌏
Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 13, come hear from Kansas State University’s Romulo Pisa Lollato as he explores Magnitudes and causes for wheat yield gaps in North America🌾
Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus 12pm Friday 13, come hear from Kansas State University’s Giovana Cruppe as she explores Meet the cereal killer: an overview of wheat blast 🌾
We also extend our gratitude to the outgoing Managing Editor, Professor Rachel Ong ViforJ. Rachel has managed the journal over the last four-and-a-half years, and has maintained a profile of excellence. We wish her well in all her future endeavours.
#CurtinUni @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
🌏 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
📢In my #NeededNowLT series w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#CurtinUni @molliedollin.bsky.social+++
👏We credential them, but we've never met them. What online education must confront
Robust big💭
❓How to solve wicked problem of assuring learning for fully online degrees
open.substack.com/pub/neededno...
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 🧫🌿
🌱 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
🎉 Last week, PhD student Andy Jian presented at #SVP2025 in the UK! Andy presented his research on “An organic and isotopic characterization of a concretion-entombed ichthyosaur: Taphonomic insights into the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale (Germany).” 👏 #CurtinUni
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
This is fantastic. Well done to @nteunion.bsky.social members at #CurtinUni! 👏✊ @nteuwa.bsky.social
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
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 🍃
🌾 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
