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Our Frontiers in Genetics breakout session and speakers are locked in for CBSM 2026! Take a look at our keynote and invited speakers who will be discussing topics including bacterial genetics, gene editing, epigenetics and DNA scaffolding and origami.

🧬 CBSM WA 2026 — early bird rego & abstract submission now open! Breakout sessions spanning plant science, microbiology, cell & dev bio, genetics & biodiversity, plus a great plenary line-up and a networking sundowner to close. WA life scientists, come along 👇 cbsmwa.au

#nanoporeconf come and check out my cat at poster #31, and while there help me figure out what I found in my sequencing data

#nanoporeconf provided umbrellas to enjoy the authentic London weather 😁

Virologists at #nanoporeconf come visit me at poster #31 later and help me figure out what we found in our fungal plant pathogens 😊

Last stop of this trip, #nanopore #LC2026, weather is on point 🤣

Off to Oxford today to visit @elithynne.bsky.social and talk some more about my circular DNA element 🧬

Check out the @theccdm.bsky.social spotlight article on our recent @plantdisease publication on the impact of fungal co-infection in breaking down disease resistance in wheat!

Centre for Crop and Disease Management@theccdm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🦠 When wheat diseases collide CCDM scientists reveal how yellow leaf spot × SNB coinfection can shape disease severity and impact yields 🌾 Read more: buff.ly/HiVHnvA @curtinuniversity.bsky.social, #GRDC

We're hard at work to bring you another excellent #CBSMWA in 2026.

CBSM WA@cbsmwa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Throwback Thursday! Still inspired by the passion and high calibre of our student poster presenters seen at CBSM 2025.

Out doing something different at Science Meets Parliament in Canberra this week. #SMP2026

Shiny! www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56... #Firefly

#plantscience #plantbiology #science

The Tattooed Professor@schwessinger.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#plantscience question. Anyone know why the Tet-On (tetracycline/dox) inducible expression system never took off in plants?

I just recalled some older Nanopore data and started fixing the assembly when I came across a 'weird' contig. Blasting it generated a lot of almost perfect hits to 'plasmids' all across the tree of life. Turns out it was the spike in control DNA that comes with the ONT library prep kit...

Found another instance of my plasmid/virus, this time in sequencing data of Leptographium pseudotsugae, a fungal pathogen isolated from Oregon pine (Douglas fir). We're up to 11 fungal species carrying it. Still no clue what it is 🤷‍♂️

Had a lot of fun presenting our accidental finding of a circular DNA element in isolates of at least 10 different plant pathogenic fungal species at #strompath2025

Leafy Boi 😊

Registrations for the Stromlo Plant Pathogen Conference #StromPath25 are rolling in fast and the program is now full! Exciting lineup from Japan, Korea, USA, UK, NZ + strong local crew. Join us in Canberra — rego open until Nov 13. Program available here tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2

@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom. 👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial! 👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome! 👉 Contribute and get recognition!

Toby Baril@tobybarilbio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Well hello there "entity" in yet another species 😎

@mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social Meagon! I hear congratulations are in order! All the best 😊

Incredible session from Professor Peter Solomon. Engaging and highly relevant to Australia’s wheat and plant pathogen landscape. #CBSMWA #CBSMWA2025

Dr. @jamespblloyd.bsky.social and @theccdm.bsky.social Dr. Liz Czislowski wrapping up the Biodiversity session at @cbsmwa.bsky.social with synthetic gene circuits for plants in space and novel nucleic acid based nanoparticle fungicides

Having fun at @cbsmwa.bsky.social presenting work on "The Entity", a circular genetic element we keep finding in unrelated fungal plant pathogens. #cbsmwa @theccdm.bsky.social

Come see Peter at #CBSMWA on Friday and at @theccdm.bsky.social on Thursday :-)

Peter Solomon@plantpathpete.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to be Plenary Speaker at the Combined Biological Sciences Meeting in Western Australia on Sept 19 at UWA! I’ll share a novel plant immunity pathway + a few career reflections. Can’t wait to reconnect with WA friends + hear top biology from the west! cbsmwa.au @cbsmwa.bsky.social #CBSM2025

Such a fun little conference!

MicroSeq2026@microseqasm.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🥰 #MicroSeq2025

Registrations are rolling in for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology meeting in Canberra (Nov 27–28)! Secure your spot! Speakers: @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecille Segonzac, @thamlab.bsky.social, @yichangsung.bsky.social, Tek Tay & @danielsyu.bsky.social. Register at tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2 #strompath25

Join us in our CBSM WA 2025 Biodiversity session with invited speaker Dr James PB Lloyd. His talk will focus on the threat of climate change to our global food security and the potential for programmable genetic systems as a solution.

West Australians, come join us at CBSM 2025!

CBSM WA@cbsmwa.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you working on biological science research and want the opportunity to share it at CBSM 2025? Abstract submissions due this Friday! cbsmwa.au/conference/a...