🔬 EOI now extended: CCDM Nanopore Sequencing Workshop 2026 Join us at Curtin University from 17–19 Nov for a hands-on workshop covering wet-lab sequencing + bioinformatics 📊 $500 rego | bursaries available EOIs close 1 September - buff.ly/40UXAwg @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌱 CCDM researchers and students will present their latest barley disease and fungicide research at #ABTS2026 in Geelong (17–19 Aug). Talks from Xuan Hoan Dinh, Jade Davis and Varthini Govindaraju Punithan, plus a poster from Jiaping Du. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾🔬 Yesterday, students from WA College of Agriculture – Harvey visited CCDM to hear from our scientists, tour the Centre and field trial areas, and learn how research is helping protect Australia's grain industry. Thanks for visiting! 🌱 #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🦠🌱 CCDM researchers Joel Haywood and Lincoln Harper will present at the Environmental Dimensions of Antimicrobial Resistance (EDAR) Conference in Brisbane (2–7 August). Their talks on antifungal resistance will feature in the One Health session on 6 August. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾📊 Shaping the future of data-driven farming. CCDM brought researchers, industry and tech partners together at Pawsey for an Agri Analytics Hub co-design workshop led by Julia Easton, helping develop better tools for on-farm decision-making. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Jul 31, come hear from Astute Ag’s Grant Hollaway as he explores Perspectives from 30 Years of On-Farm Soilborne Disease Research and Extension🧑‍🌾

🌾 CCDM at Australian Crop Breeders Week! We have some CCDM researchers and students attending and presenting at the Australian Crop Breeders Week, a flagship event bringing together crop breeders, researchers and industry leaders from across Australia. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

📢 New paper published! CCDM researchers have characterised a new putative effector gene, AlPE1, in Ascochyta lentis, providing new insights into pathogen evolution and host–pathogen interactions in lentils. 🔗 Read here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...  #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Jul 24, come hear from CCDM’s Callum Verdonk as he explores Major effector loss reveals compensatory pathogenicity networks in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum 🌾

CCDM, InterGrain and Curtin University researchers have identified wheat powdery mildew resistance sources that remain effective against diverse Australian pathogen populations, supporting future wheat breeding. 🌾🔬 🔗 Read more: connectsci.au/cp/article/d... #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Jul 17, come hear from CCDM’s Joel Haywood as he explores The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Surviving the Peer Review Process 📑

🗣️ Guest speaker at CCDM! Today we welcomed Associate Professor Yichao Wang from RMIT University, who shared how advanced sensing technologies and nanomaterials could help improve plant health monitoring, crop resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱 #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Jul 10, come hear from RMIT University’s Yichao Wang as he explores Advanced chemical sensing and nano-bio interaction in nano-enabled agriculture 💻

🧬 New CCDM research reveals how the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum switches on genes needed to infect crops, uncovering potential targets for future disease control. 🌾 Read more: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🦠 Join CCDM researcher Nola D'Souza for practical workshops on disease identification, fungicide stewardship and integrated disease management. 📍 Perth – 20 July www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disease-ma... 📍 Esperance – 23 July www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disease-ma... @curtinuniversity.bsky.social , #GRDC

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Jul 3, come hear from CCDM’s Huyen Phan as she explores A novel necrotrophic effector-receptor interaction in Parastagonospora nodorum- wheat pathosystem 🌾

🌾 Darling Downs growers – how’s the season kicking off for you? In this video, hear from Elizabeth Lobsey (Meteora Agronomic Consulting, Dalby QLD) and Mark Gibberd (CCDM Director) as they unpack the current issues for growers. 📰 Read here: buff.ly/gLcN2zl #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🔬 CCDM researchers have detected a genetic change in barley loose smut linked to reduced sensitivity to Group 7 (SDHI) fungicides. 👉 Advice for growers: this is not a field failure! groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/announc... @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾 Yorke Peninsula growers—how’s the season kicking off? Hear from Jake Rademacher (Growers Supplies Agronomist, Warooka SA) and Mark Gibberd (CCDM Director) as they break down current conditions for growers. Find out more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd... @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday June 26, come hear from CCDM’s Arundhati Singh as she explores From seed to leaf: mapping fluxapyroxad dynamics 🌿

🌏 Seasonal Update June 2026 🌱 The season is underway—but it’s been a challenging start for many growers, with rising input costs and emerging disease risks. Find out what five agronomists and our director have to say.. Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd... #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾 New spore trapping + DNA sequencing tech is tracking fungicide resistance in grain crops. CCDM researchers can now detect resistance from air samples containing airborne spores—offering faster, more comprehensive monitoring of resistance risk. Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/new-combined...

🔬 EOI now open: CCDM Nanopore Sequencing Workshop 2026 Join us at Curtin University from 17–19 Nov for a hands-on workshop covering wet-lab sequencing + bioinformatics 📊 $500 rego | bursaries available EOIs close 31 July - buff.ly/40UXAwg @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🎤 CCDM at #ResBaz 📅 23 June Fatima Naim, Mel Dixon & Dylan Tran– Metadata matters: practical FAIR skills every researcher needs 📅 24 June Kristina Gagalova – Hello reproducibility! Build your first Nextflow workflow @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday June 19, come hear from CCDM’s Julie Aiza Mandap as she explores Global Assemblage and Genomic Analysis of Pyrenophora teres Populations Under Fungicide Selection 🧬

🎉 International recognition for CCDM! Dr Huyen Phan Phan took out 2nd place (presentation) at the Wheat Initiative Conference in Bologna. “This will inspire young researchers and encourage mid-career scientists like me.” 👏 Congratulations, Huyen! @curtinuniversity.bsky.social, #GRDC

🎉 Congrats to CCDM PhD candidate Nimllash Thangam on taking Runner‑up at the Falling Walls Lab Australia National Final His research explores how crop pathogens evolve over time—aiming to predict changes before resistance breaks down and improve food security #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to CCDM PhD student Mohitul Hossain on receiving a Curtin PhD internship incentive following his GRDC collaboration! His work is advancing bioinformatics tools to improve crop disease management for the grains industry. 🌾🔬 #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🔬 Not all “systemic” fungicides behave the same. PhD researcher Jordan Campbell is unpacking how they move in plants—by separating uptake, local diffusion, and translocation.🌱 His work helps us understand the biology of plant tissues for the longevity of fungicides. @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday June 12, come hear from Adelaide University’s Xin Yu as he explores Towards Agentic Agricultural Data Processing and Curation 💻