Centre for Crop and Disease Management
@theccdm.bsky.social
The Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM), with investment and co-support from Curtin University and GRDC, reduces the impact of crop disease for Aussie growers.
Learn more at www.ccdm.com.au
Learn more at www.ccdm.com.au
CCDM hosted the AAGI/GGA Experimental Design Workshop!
Led by Adam Sparks, Barbara Kachigunda & Rose Megirian, it equipped grower groups with skills in:
✅ Trial design & protocols
✅ Managing outliers
✅ Planning field trials
Proud to support best practices in experimental design!
#GRDC
Led by Adam Sparks, Barbara Kachigunda & Rose Megirian, it equipped grower groups with skills in:
✅ Trial design & protocols
✅ Managing outliers
✅ Planning field trials
Proud to support best practices in experimental design!
#GRDC
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
CCDM hosted the AAGI/GGA Experimental Design Workshop!
Led by Adam Sparks, Barbara Kachigunda & Rose Megirian, it equipped grower groups with skills in:
✅ Trial design & protocols
✅ Managing outliers
✅ Planning field trials
Proud to support best practices in experimental design!
#GRDC
Led by Adam Sparks, Barbara Kachigunda & Rose Megirian, it equipped grower groups with skills in:
✅ Trial design & protocols
✅ Managing outliers
✅ Planning field trials
Proud to support best practices in experimental design!
#GRDC
🌿 CCDM is at the Stromlo Plant Pathology Conference 2025! 🌍🔬
Our researchers are sharing cutting-edge work on crop disease management at ANU.
📅 27–28 Nov
🗣 Talks on RNA interference, fungicide dynamics & more.
🔗 www.wheatbiosecurity.com/10th-stromlo...
#GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
Our researchers are sharing cutting-edge work on crop disease management at ANU.
📅 27–28 Nov
🗣 Talks on RNA interference, fungicide dynamics & more.
🔗 www.wheatbiosecurity.com/10th-stromlo...
#GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🌿 CCDM is at the Stromlo Plant Pathology Conference 2025! 🌍🔬
Our researchers are sharing cutting-edge work on crop disease management at ANU.
📅 27–28 Nov
🗣 Talks on RNA interference, fungicide dynamics & more.
🔗 www.wheatbiosecurity.com/10th-stromlo...
#GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
Our researchers are sharing cutting-edge work on crop disease management at ANU.
📅 27–28 Nov
🗣 Talks on RNA interference, fungicide dynamics & more.
🔗 www.wheatbiosecurity.com/10th-stromlo...
#GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
🌱 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
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
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
🌱 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
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
Congratulations to Julia Easton & James Hare - now Associate Professors!
Julia leads C4AP for farm profitability & sustainability.
James builds bioinformatics power to fight crop disease.
CCDM is proud to foster talent & advance agriculture! 🌱
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social #GRDC
Julia leads C4AP for farm profitability & sustainability.
James builds bioinformatics power to fight crop disease.
CCDM is proud to foster talent & advance agriculture! 🌱
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social #GRDC
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Congratulations to Julia Easton & James Hare - now Associate Professors!
Julia leads C4AP for farm profitability & sustainability.
James builds bioinformatics power to fight crop disease.
CCDM is proud to foster talent & advance agriculture! 🌱
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social #GRDC
Julia leads C4AP for farm profitability & sustainability.
James builds bioinformatics power to fight crop disease.
CCDM is proud to foster talent & advance agriculture! 🌱
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social #GRDC
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 🌱
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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 🔬
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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
Supporting the grains industry to tackle fungicide resistance🌱
Congratulations to everyone involved!
#theGRDC #CurtinUni #EngagementAustralia
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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
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
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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
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 🧬
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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
She now works at DAFF as a molecular biologist, identifying plant pathogens using DNA sequencing. #theGRDC #CurtinUni
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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
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 🌾
October 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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
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
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧪 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
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 🧪🔬
October 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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
Her groundbreaking work in plant physiology & disease tolerance is helping fight crop disease and boost resilience. 👩🔬
#theGRDC #CurtinUni #AIPS
October 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🎉 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
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 🌱
October 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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 🍃
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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 🍃
🌾 WA growers – how’s the season going for you?
In our latest CCDM Spotlight, David Lane & Mark Gibberd discuss the season, early fungicide application and future planning 👀 🦠
📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/uspzo3h
In our latest CCDM Spotlight, David Lane & Mark Gibberd discuss the season, early fungicide application and future planning 👀 🦠
📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/uspzo3h
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🌾 WA growers – how’s the season going for you?
In our latest CCDM Spotlight, David Lane & Mark Gibberd discuss the season, early fungicide application and future planning 👀 🦠
📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/uspzo3h
In our latest CCDM Spotlight, David Lane & Mark Gibberd discuss the season, early fungicide application and future planning 👀 🦠
📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/uspzo3h
🌏 Spotlight Seasonal Update 🌏
The 2025 season has begun; some early crops are on their way and some are just emerging now. We got 4 local updates from around Australia earlier this month on how it’s starting out.
📰 Read more: buff.ly/uspzo3h
The 2025 season has begun; some early crops are on their way and some are just emerging now. We got 4 local updates from around Australia earlier this month on how it’s starting out.
📰 Read more: buff.ly/uspzo3h
September 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
🌏 Spotlight Seasonal Update 🌏
The 2025 season has begun; some early crops are on their way and some are just emerging now. We got 4 local updates from around Australia earlier this month on how it’s starting out.
📰 Read more: buff.ly/uspzo3h
The 2025 season has begun; some early crops are on their way and some are just emerging now. We got 4 local updates from around Australia earlier this month on how it’s starting out.
📰 Read more: buff.ly/uspzo3h
🌾 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
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
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🌾 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
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
Our fungicide resistance team joined the Stirlings to Coast Farmers field day last week sharing insights and collecting disease samples.
Leon Hodgson & Nola D’Souza gave some great updates on fungicide testing, resistance mapping & AFREN 🌿
📷: #Stirlings2Coast
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
Leon Hodgson & Nola D’Souza gave some great updates on fungicide testing, resistance mapping & AFREN 🌿
📷: #Stirlings2Coast
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
September 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Our fungicide resistance team joined the Stirlings to Coast Farmers field day last week sharing insights and collecting disease samples.
Leon Hodgson & Nola D’Souza gave some great updates on fungicide testing, resistance mapping & AFREN 🌿
📷: #Stirlings2Coast
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
Leon Hodgson & Nola D’Souza gave some great updates on fungicide testing, resistance mapping & AFREN 🌿
📷: #Stirlings2Coast
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 26 September, come hear from CCDMs Ancy Tony as she explores Developing Genetic Resistance in Wheat to Powdery Mildew 🌾
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 26 September, come hear from CCDMs Ancy Tony as she explores Developing Genetic Resistance in Wheat to Powdery Mildew 🌾
🌱 It’s been a brilliant week at #IFLRC2025 & #APC2025 in Perth!
🔬 CCDM kicked things off with the welcome reception and we had great talks from @larskamphuis.bsky.social & Bernadette Henares, plus posters from CCDM staff.
🎉Congrats to all that worked hard to run this conference.
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
🔬 CCDM kicked things off with the welcome reception and we had great talks from @larskamphuis.bsky.social & Bernadette Henares, plus posters from CCDM staff.
🎉Congrats to all that worked hard to run this conference.
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
September 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
🌱 It’s been a brilliant week at #IFLRC2025 & #APC2025 in Perth!
🔬 CCDM kicked things off with the welcome reception and we had great talks from @larskamphuis.bsky.social & Bernadette Henares, plus posters from CCDM staff.
🎉Congrats to all that worked hard to run this conference.
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
🔬 CCDM kicked things off with the welcome reception and we had great talks from @larskamphuis.bsky.social & Bernadette Henares, plus posters from CCDM staff.
🎉Congrats to all that worked hard to run this conference.
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Tues 23 Sept, come hear from RICA Seed Center’s Joseph Moughan as he explores Driving Conservation Agriculture Principles in the Seed Sector of Rwanda and Lessons for East-Central Africa.
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Tues 23 Sept, come hear from RICA Seed Center’s Joseph Moughan as he explores Driving Conservation Agriculture Principles in the Seed Sector of Rwanda and Lessons for East-Central Africa.
Make sure to add this week's CCDM seminar talk to your calendar 📆
If you're on @CurtinUni campus Thursday 18 September, come hear from Australian National University’s Peter Solomon as he explores What is happening in the Solomon Lab? 🧪🔬
If you're on @CurtinUni campus Thursday 18 September, come hear from Australian National University’s Peter Solomon as he explores What is happening in the Solomon Lab? 🧪🔬
September 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Make sure to add this week's CCDM seminar talk to your calendar 📆
If you're on @CurtinUni campus Thursday 18 September, come hear from Australian National University’s Peter Solomon as he explores What is happening in the Solomon Lab? 🧪🔬
If you're on @CurtinUni campus Thursday 18 September, come hear from Australian National University’s Peter Solomon as he explores What is happening in the Solomon Lab? 🧪🔬
🎤 Big congrats to Nimllash Thangam for making it to the #FameLab Australia National Final! 🌱
Catch his talk on pathogens in lentil crops & how molecular tools are fast-tracking crop protection 🌾🧬
📅 Sept 18 📍 @wamuseum.bsky.social
🎟️ visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
#CurtinUni #theGRDC
Catch his talk on pathogens in lentil crops & how molecular tools are fast-tracking crop protection 🌾🧬
📅 Sept 18 📍 @wamuseum.bsky.social
🎟️ visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
#CurtinUni #theGRDC
September 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🎤 Big congrats to Nimllash Thangam for making it to the #FameLab Australia National Final! 🌱
Catch his talk on pathogens in lentil crops & how molecular tools are fast-tracking crop protection 🌾🧬
📅 Sept 18 📍 @wamuseum.bsky.social
🎟️ visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
#CurtinUni #theGRDC
Catch his talk on pathogens in lentil crops & how molecular tools are fast-tracking crop protection 🌾🧬
📅 Sept 18 📍 @wamuseum.bsky.social
🎟️ visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
#CurtinUni #theGRDC