Nik Cunniffe
nikcunniffe.bsky.social
Nik Cunniffe
@nikcunniffe.bsky.social
Plant disease modelling at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
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Opportunities and Challenges in Combining Optical Sensing and Epidemiological Modeling | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
Opportunities and Challenges in Combining Optical Sensing and Epidemiological Modeling | Phytopathology®
Plant diseases impair the yield and quality of crops and threaten the health of natural plant communities. Epidemiological models can predict disease and inform management. However, data are scarce, b...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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PhD position (Cordoba, Spain)
Smart surveillance of plant pathogens through epidemiological modelling, remote sensing and molecular tools
with @janavascortes.bsky.social @rcalderonmadrid.bsky.social
at @iascsic.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2398
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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PhD position (Cambridge, UK)
Modelling fungicide resistance dynamics for monocyclic plant pathogens
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2400
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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PhD position (Cambridge, UK)
Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2401
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Preprint alert!
The epidemiology of wild–crop interfaces: Integrating ecology, evolution, and management through modeling - www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/abs/10.3...
The epidemiology of wild-crop interfaces: integrating ecology, evolution, and management through modeling. | agriRxiv
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September 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A must read for every plant pathologist. Highlights some of the monumental research contributions in our field.

More reason to publish your work in Phytopathology.
NEW: "Landmarks in Phytopathology" celebrates influential research that has helped to shape the field of plant pathology. This virtual issue features seminal studies and thoughtful reflections from authors and senior editors. Explore it here: apsjournals.apsnet.org/landmarksphyto
September 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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NEW: "Landmarks in Phytopathology" celebrates influential research that has helped to shape the field of plant pathology. This virtual issue features seminal studies and thoughtful reflections from authors and senior editors. Explore it here: apsjournals.apsnet.org/landmarksphyto
September 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Everybody needs a friend! Elin Falla from the University of Cambridge is talking about companion plants to control non-persistently transmitted plant viruses.
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Come join me at Oregon State! We’re hiring a new assistant professor in population and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens. Our department is dynamic and fun, our building is newly renovated, and Oregon is wonderful! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/171...
Assistant Professor: Population and Disease Dynamics of Cereal Pathogens
The Department of Botany & Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure track Assistant Professor: Population and Disease Dynamics of Cereal Pathogens position.We a...
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August 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We still have a PhD position open to work on a great project, developing strategies for ergot control on-farm. It's open to Home applicants only unfortunately, registered @camplantsci.bsky.social, working mainly @niab-uk.bsky.social fully funded for 4 years. niab.com/phds-at-niab
July 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Spread of #Xylella fastidiosa in Majorca Island Agroecosystems: Interaction Between Insect Vectors, Woody Hosts and Bacterial Subspecies - Llompart - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Spread of Xylella fastidiosa in Majorca Island Agroecosystems: Interaction Between Insect Vectors, Woody Hosts and Bacterial Subspecies
Philaenus spumarius is the main vector of Xylella fastidiosa in Majorca, maintaining high infectivity on wild hosts and facilitating pathogen spread in almonds and vineyards.
bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Take a First Look at the paper about "Opportunities and Challenges in Combining Optical Sensing and Epidemiological Modelling" by Alexey Mikaberidze et al., very recently published in @phytopathology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1094/PHYT...
June 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The preprint of my second first-author paper (with
@nikcunniffe.bsky.social) is out! Read to find out how virus-resistant companion plants can control spread of non-persistently transmitted plant viruses: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.31220...
@camplantsci.bsky.social @caiuscollege.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Fully funded PhD project (UK applicants only) "Developing strategies for the control of ergot on-farm" #planthealth #plantpathology at @niab-uk.bsky.social and @camplantsci.bsky.social www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate... Note the short deadline. @bspp.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Very relevant info to set the strategy againts #HLB in the #EU 🍊🇪🇺
A tool predicting how to protect European citrus farms from a deadly epidemic shows how mathematical modelling can help prepare for future plant disease invasions.

Read the latest research from @nikcunniffe.bsky.social & colleagues:

tinyurl.com/5ame5t7e

@uniofcam.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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A tool predicting how to protect European citrus farms from a deadly epidemic shows how mathematical modelling can help prepare for future plant disease invasions.

Read the latest research from @nikcunniffe.bsky.social & colleagues:

tinyurl.com/5ame5t7e

@uniofcam.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM