A huge congratulations to our team - this year's CSIRO Chair's award for science excellence. To learn more about their work 👇 csiro.au/en/research/pl… They are a true inspiration to all of us! GMOonly CSIRO

It was a wonderful #EMBOComp3D meeting with 500 onsite and virtual participants! Latest news, algorithms fresh from oven, tips & tricks, spotlights on achievements and challenges, community building across disciplines. Mark calendars for the next one in 2025 and please repost!

This was a tremendous team effort. Congrats to the key authors: M. Selvaraj the Cryo-EM wizard, AmirAli Toghani the Phylogenomics expert, Hsuan Pai 白暄 the BN-PAGE queen, and our fearless leader Sophien Kamoun. We look forward to your feedback and comments! 12/13 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) awards honoring outstanding early-career scientists engaged in wheat research. Deadline to apply is January 31, 2024. CIMMYT Gates Foundation Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office bgri.cornell.edu/2024-wit-award…

LigandMPNN The preprint describing the ligand-aware version of ProteinMPNN is now available at biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Code: github.com/dauparas/Ligan… By Justas Dauparas Institute for Protein Design & David Baker's lab

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) awards honoring outstanding early-career women scientists engaged in wheat research. CIMMYT ICARDA bgri.cornell.edu/2024-wit-award…

The ZmWAKL–ZmWIK–ZmBLK1–ZmRBOH4 module provides quantitative resistance to gray leaf spot in maize | Nature Genetics nature.com/articles/s4158…

Bioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface towards a conserved fungal pathogen effector dlvr.it/T1nRRs

We wrote a review covering the major milestones in plant immunity! Thanks to the reviewers for their valuable feedback! Check it out in the link ⬇️ 🌿

Congrats to the new PIs Adam Adam Bentham & Jiorgos Jiorgos Kourelis Imperial College London 🙌 🎉

Today marks the end of my time at ANU. I would like to thank @williams_simonj for being such an amazing mentor and supervisor. Will miss all the Williams lab crew! On to the next journey with Mark Banfield and @pd_christine at the John Innes Centre

Please spread the word! This year’s Stromlo Plant Pathology Meeting will be held in beautiful Queenstown, New Zealand, on Aug 31-Sep 01 (queenstownresearchweek.org/plant-microbe-…)! Queenstown at that time of year is simply amazing, with lots to do: queenstownnz.co.nz 1/2

2025 IS-MPMI Congress ​Save the date – more information coming soon! Sunday, 13 July – Thursday, 17 July, 2025 Confex Conference and Exhibition Centre​ Cologne, Germany​ ismpmi.org/Events/Pages/U… IS-MPMI

It's the East Coast Protein Meeting again! A fantastic meeting for ECRs and students, and PIs who are young at heart. SydneyProteinGroup QueenslandProtein

Our revised manuscript on the discovery of a novel effector family found its place at PLOS Pathogens journals.plos.org/plospathogens/… Kudos to all the co-authors for the team effort during the peer-review process #PlantPath #BlastOFF #Effectors

Science road trip to discuss chytrid, frogs + effectors 🐸 Fun visit with Megan Outram to learn all things chytrid from Lee Berger & Lee Skerratt - very interesting links between plant fungal pathogens and chytrid - excited to get this program going ourANU #chytrid #plants