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A/Prof @theccdm.bsky.social, keen cook, gamer, Fender Strat fan, motorhead & proud dad. Agric and effector biology are my thing. Views are my own.
Enjoying a midnight @wheatinitiative.bsky.social webinar on a transposon masterclass👩‍🔬 while setting up a slow-cook smoked BBQ🍖 for @theccdm.bsky.social work sundowner tomorrow to wind the week down😎
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our @theccdm.bsky.social @CurtinEand #advancedscience student @CarliaHerbst turn to present her research on protein-protein interactions in Parastagonospora nodorum 😎. @callumverdonk.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our @CurtinEandA @theccdm.bsky.social #advancedscience student 👨‍🎓Keshara Thanthrige (right) presenting his research assessment on the development of selectable marker recycling♻️ in a fungal pathogen.

Well done mate! 👏
@ShotaMorikawa69 @callumverdonk.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Our @theccdm.bsky.social postdoc @callumverdonk.bsky.social came up with the goods @cbsmwa.bsky.social!!! Congrats on the New Investigator Award! 🏆💪 #CBSMWA #CBSMWA2025
September 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢💥Team work pays off!!! Looks @theccdm.bsky.social lads found a new epistasis-regulated (probable) necrotrophic effector from Stago nodorum @callumverdonk.bsky.social @ShotaMorikawa69
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
1,2,3...The @theccdm.bsky.social lads teamed up for an effector bioassay experiment 😁 @callumverdonk.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
PhD thesis submission time! 📗🔬

🥳🍾Big congrats to @theccdm.bsky.social @ShotaMorikawa69 for putting together a fine thesis on fungal effector regulation! 💪🤯
August 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Its that time of the year when wheat spot blotch pops out.🌾

@theccdm.bsky.social Leon Lenzo is out to collect samples to test our lesion morphology imaging and Parastagonospora nodorum/Py tritici-repentis co-infection bioassay in collab with
@agtbreeding
July 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Thank you @ifudal.bsky.social & @soyer_jessica for hosting us @inrae-france.bsky.social 🙏🇫🇷

Plenty of productive discussions on all things fungal!!! @theccdm.bsky.social @callumverdonk.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Our @theccdm.bsky.social @callumverdonk.bsky.social talks about effector regulation in Parastagonospora nodorum in @inrae-france.bsky.social hosted by @ifudal.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@teamthomma.bsky.social - a new antimicrobial effector prediction tool is available. This will be useful #2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Want to find out more about publishing your work in @mpmijournal.bsky.social? Please visit us at our @ismpmi.bsky.social stand at #2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Fabrizio menardo - Breakdown of Pm17 mediated resistance of wheat powdery mildew through AvrPm17 evolution in Blumeria graminis #2025ISMPMI
July 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#2025ISMPMI turnout is massive!!!!
July 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Our @theccdm.bsky.social postdoc @callumverdonk.bsky.social got a poster on necrotrophic fungal effector regulation (P-195 Monday 1.30-3.15pm). Come and check it out 💥 #2025ISMPMI
July 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I've got a @theccdm.bsky.social @InterGrain1 poster on wheat powdery mildew pathotyping (P-114)! Come and chat with us on Tuesday 9.55-11.30am! 🙏😀 #2025ISMPMI
July 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Sophie Sent - Blumeria hordei-Bipolaris sorokiniana coinfection breaks down host barley disease resistance #2025ISMPMI
July 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
July 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Dingzhong Tang - Pm60 from T.ururtu confers resistance in bread wheat to over 90% Bgt isolates tested #2025ISMPMI
July 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Aaron Lawson - Up and coming protocol for recombinant protein complex expression (powdery mildew MLA-Avr) using Nbenth #2025ISMPMI
July 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Paul Schulze Lefert - sensitivity to Bipolaris sorokinina barley infection wash fluids map to the Srm1 susceptibility gene locus to P. teres f. maculata #2025ISMPMI @theccdm.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Traffic management for #2025ISMPMI in Cologne, Germany is on another level!

The Tan Lab @theccdm.bsky.social is looking forward to the exciting congress!!
July 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Revolutionary propagandas are making their way around the @theccdm.bsky.social after @ShotaMorikawa69 PhD exit seminar. Dissidents 🤔must be reported @kgagalova.bsky.social! 🤣🤣🤣
July 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Marching towards the end of his PhD! Shota Morikawa presenting his exciting exit seminar on effector regulation in Parastagonospora nodorum @theccdm.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
💥CONGRATS! @theccdm.bsky.social @InterGrain PhD student Ancy Tony won a runner-up award 🏆 for her poster on "Australian Wheat Powdery Mildew Pathotyping" #ICRPMC2025. What a way to finish the meeting So proud! 😎
June 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM