The views from 32000 ft over middle of 🇦🇺 … unreal to see water and all the creeks and tributaries that are rarely running.

A real treat to have Professor Yong-Hwan Lee from Seoul National University presenting at #APPS2025 in Sydney, Aus. As many would know, Yong-Hwan is a pioneer in the rice blast field and always a pleasure to hear his journey through his career as well as his many recent advances.

Excited to announce that Tek Tay will be delivering a plenary presentation at #strompath2025. Tek is a leader in understanding the genome diversity of invasive insect pests inc FAW and CRB. Please click on the link for more information and registration details for the meeting. tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2

Great talk by Chris Nellessen from the AUS Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry using MALDI-ToF as a biosecurity diagnostic. @arc-pbtc.bsky.social is working with DAFF to develop improved fruit fly diagnostic approaches - an important project with significant biosecurity implications.

Always interested in an early morning talk on coffee rusts! Great overview by Cathie Aime at APPS 2025 ...

Happy to announce that registration for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology (and plant pests!) conference at ANU is now open (Nov 27-28). Plenary speakers confirmed include @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecile Segonzac and@thamlab.bsky.social. Please go to tinyurl.com/2rdxuap3 to register - all are welcome!

We are pleased to welcome AUSVEG as a new partner in the ARC Training Centre for Plant Biosecurity. Representing Australia’s vegetable, potato, and onion industries, AUSVEG will support our efforts to train postgraduates to address the growing threat of pests and diseases. @arc-pbtc.bsky.social

The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity @arc-pbtc.bsky.social is pleased to introduce postdoctoral research fellow Elle Saber to the Training Centre! Elle is a statistician working on quantitative methods in biology and values opportunities to collaborate with researchers from different fields.

We're officially launching the ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity on the International Day of Plant Health, May 12. This is a 5yr, $10M investment into postgrad research training funded by Australian Research Council, 3 unis (ANU, JCU & UC) and 27 partner organisations @arc-pbtc.bsky.social

Not science but am having a lovely time visiting my daughter at GSU in Atlanta … weird times in this part of the world but still heaps of nice people that give me hope that they’ll see this through …

Chicago sunrise …

Awesome array of skills and techniques on display by @yithengchooi.bsky.social on mining for secondary metabolites in fungi. An exciting ride about to start! #ecfg17

Arrived in Dublin for @ecfg172025.bsky.social … keen for the meeting to start - but while I’m waiting …

The Solomon and Williams labs are excited to announce that Emily Cross has joined the team. Emily brings a wealth of structural biology experience that has already significantly advanced our understanding of extracellular protein interactions! Watch this space!

Very challenging to play golf with all these obstacles in front of me!

Never thought this would happen but my first ever post on Arabidopsis … a new world for my lab but exciting! PhD student Chen @1515185596.bsky.social has a healthy crop underway for a large scale gene expression analysis dissecting extracellular plant immunity.

Brilliant day listening to ANU Plant Science PhD students presenting 8 min summaries of their projects - a real skill! Here’s @nuren-tasneem.bsky.social doing an awesome job explaining the intricacies of extracellular plant immunity.