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.
🎥 buff.ly/ZKQSuDf
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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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🌏 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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🌏 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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In the lead up to #IWD2026, we’re highlighting Associate Professor Julia Easton 👩🔬🌾
Julia drives innovation at CCDM—building partnerships, leading demand‑driven research, and turning data‑focused research into real impact for Australian agriculture. 🌱💡
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In the lead up to #IWD2026, we’re celebrating women in research at CCDM.
Meet Elyce Iagallo, whose work on yellow spot disease in wheat is helping support the development of more resilient crops.
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🌟 #IWD2026 Spotlight: Dr Sarita Bennett 🌟
From her PhD in Birmingham to leading ag research in WA, Sarita now serves as ACDiA President and Interim Deputy Head of School at Curtin.
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🌱 CCDM researchers have mapped how the fungicide fluxapyroxad moves through barley with cm‑level precision.
Recently published, “Foliar Distribution of Seed‑Applied Fluxapyroxad in Barley,” shows older leaves accumulate the most.
📄 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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In the lead-up to #IWD2026, we’re recognising Jiaping Du!
Jiaping has strong GCMS/LCMS skills, and both a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Agricultural Science, she brings a passion for sustainable agriculture and innovative research to CCDM.
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NEW PUBLICATION from CCDM!
Our team has uncovered a WA soil microbiome that naturally suppresses Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
Read here 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ICYMI: land managers, producers, researchers, advisors, students and farm workers can now access a free learning platform on soil and plant nutrition: soilswest.org.au/new-online-c... #GRDC @murdoch.edu.au #SoilQualityCourses #graingrowers #soilnews #soilscience #soilresearch
Updated!🌾
We’ve refreshed our data on Australian wheat sensitivities to key necrotrophic effectors.
Growers, advisers & researchers can explore the latest info here:
👉 www.ccdm.com.au/necrotrophic...
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Day 2 at #GRDCUpdates 2026 Perth ✅
Great to hear Jordi Muria-Gonzalez present on how fungicides move inside plants and to connect with growers, industry and research partners over the past two days. 🌾
Thanks to GRDC for a fantastic event!
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Day 1 at GRDC Perth Updates 2026!
Strong presence from CCDM, with Mark Gibberd chairing “CCDM in the Spotlight.”
Great talks from our PhD students, plus presentations by Nola D’Souza (AFRN) and Liz Czislowski (nanoparticle solutions).
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Great to host Prof. Romulo Lollato and Dr. Giovana Cruppe from Kansas State University at CCDM today.
Romulo presented “Magnitudes and causes for wheat yield gaps in North America” and Giovana shared “Meet the Cereal Killer: an overview of Wheat Blast.”
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Great to see CCDM’s sclerotinia stem rot team preparing resistant material for this year’s experiments 🌱🧪
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🎫 #GRDCUpdates Perth 2026 are right around the corner!
Catch Jordi Muria‑Gonzalez presenting “Understanding how fungicides move inside plants.”
📅 Tue 17 Feb | 🕑 11:45am
📍 Session 18 – Crop Management
Register now 👉 buff.ly/kREkfa9
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Yesterday @hydrohannes.bsky.social hosted a webinar of the @iahs-aish.bsky.social working group #REHYDRATE. Presenters were Markus Ziese from #GPCC and Simon Mischel from #GRDC. Thanks for the interesting talks!
Read more about REHYDRATEs aim to rescue historical data:
iahs.info/Initiatives/...
