
Casey Hall
@thehungrybug
Postdoc researcher at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. Starving caterpillars for science | insects | plant defence | silicon | eCO2
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19-08-2019 04:46:12
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Rebecca Vandegeer gives a 5 min speed talk at #JointAusBio19 explaining how interactions between silicon and osmotic stress affect herbivores. Herbivores suffer from both; thicker leaves and physical defences?


Excellent talk by Casey Hall at #JointAusBio19 on alkaloid defences as affected by plant silicon. Really cool interplay and interaction between resistance mechanisms



Congratulations to Tarikul @Tarikul67150456 on passing his CoC and to Rocky @rputrabio on his birthday. Last lab meeting of Professor Scott Johnson before Christmas. @Fikadu03792669 @aphid_whisperer Casey Hall Rebecca Vandegeer Jamie Waterman Ximena Cibils, PhD






Home office c/o Andy Austin 🧑🏼💻🐴🍷Getting it done! You be the judge. School of Biological Sciences Postgrad Association @InvasionEcology Jeremy Austin 🧬🕵🏻♂️🌈🚴♂️ Michelle Guzik Emma Sherratt #UoAHomeOffice


Feeling sympathy for the caterpillars 🐛 Counting silicified prickle cells from leaf epidermal peels #Homelab #WFH #siliceousplants #plantdefence Rebecca Vandegeer Professor Scott Johnson


Have you got a few minutes to channel your inner possum and see if you can tell the difference between Australian mistletoe leaves and those of their hosts? Play the game here: conflict-ecology-games.github.io/MistletoeGame/… . #mimicry #ecology #citizenscience #plantblindness ⚛️🧪 🌎🌳S112 Module Team 🪐🧬🧫🌋 matthew bulbert



New #siliceousplants paper out in Plants MDPI led by Casey Hall with Professor Scott Johnson. We found that silicon acts as a direct defence against chewing herbivores by altering the morphology of physical defence structures, not leaf mechanical traits. mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/5/…

Siliplant1 (Slp1) protein precipitates silica in sorghum silica cells (doi.org/10.1093/jxb/er…) JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social Martin Hodson
