Our @theccdm.bsky.social postdoc @callumverdonk.bsky.social came up with the goods @cbsmwa.bsky.social!!! Congrats on the New Investigator Award! ππͺ #CBSMWA #CBSMWA2025
19.09.2025 10:19 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0@callumverdonk.bsky.social
Part-time molecular biologist, part-time structural biologist. Full-time buffoon. I'm @karchuntan.bsky.social's postdoc. Necrotrophic fungi & effector biology. Views my own π Migrated from X.
Our @theccdm.bsky.social postdoc @callumverdonk.bsky.social came up with the goods @cbsmwa.bsky.social!!! Congrats on the New Investigator Award! ππͺ #CBSMWA #CBSMWA2025
19.09.2025 10:19 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Big thank you to @cbsmwa.bsky.social for letting me waffle on about my work on Pf2 and it's role in effector regulation! #effectors #CBSMWA #CBSM @theccdm.bsky.social @karchuntan.bsky.social
19.09.2025 03:47 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0π’π₯Team work pays off!!! Looks @theccdm.bsky.social lads found a new epistasis-regulated (probable) necrotrophic effector from Stago nodorum @callumverdonk.bsky.social @ShotaMorikawa69
19.09.2025 03:02 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 01,2,3...The @theccdm.bsky.social lads teamed up for an effector bioassay experiment π @callumverdonk.bsky.social
15.09.2025 04:56 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1π§ Can AI help us understand how fungal pathogens infect plants? A new review says yes. AI tools show promise in modelling effectorβplant protein interactions to fight crop diseaseπΎ
π doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
#GRDC #CurtinUni @callumverdonk.bsky.social @kgagalova.bsky.social @mcderbyshire.bsky.social
Our @theccdm.bsky.social @callumverdonk.bsky.social talks about effector regulation in Parastagonospora nodorum in @inrae-france.bsky.social hosted by @ifudal.bsky.social
21.07.2025 12:30 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0What an absolute pleasure to present our work to the EPLM group at INRAe in France. Fantastic research being done by fantastic people!
21.07.2025 15:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Today at INRAe! @karchuntan.bsky.social discusses how co-infection by necrotrophic fungi BREAKS DOWN disease resistance in wheat @inrae-france.bsky.social @ifudal.bsky.social @theccdm.bsky.social
21.07.2025 15:38 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Our latest article is part of a feature on UWA's news site (among Charlie's two others - 3x NAR in 3 months!)
www.uwa.edu.au/news/article...
Congrats @callumverdonk.bsky.social on your 1st-Author NAR paper doi.org/10.1093/nar/... together with @charliebondxray.bsky.social, characterising RdfS, the multifunctional recombination directionality factor βexcisionaseβ of the symbiosis islands (Integrative & Conjugative Elements).
03.04.2025 01:55 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0π€@ShotaMorikawa @CallumVerdonk found a bunch of non-host effectors from Parastagonospora nodorum using Nbenth π± @theccdm.bsky.social
14.02.2025 05:14 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0π¨ Catch @karchuntan.bsky.social at the 17th European Conference on Fungal Genetics #ECFG17
Hear from KC on Tues 4 March, 2pm presenting "Armed with the βRed Buttonβ"βexploring how Parastagonospora nodorum activates its effector arsenal to infect wheat πΎπ§¬
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#GRDC #Curtin
Our @theccdm.bsky.social PhD student Shota Morikawa got a poster on "Compensatory pathogenicity mechanisms in Parastagonospora nodorum lacking major necrotrophic effectors" (P2.113)
Session: Plant pathogenic fungi
Date/Time: Tuesday/17:30 β 19
Our @theccdm.bsky.social Callum Verdonk will present a poster on "Order from Disorder: a structurally disordered domain of PnPf2 is essential for regulation of virulence factors in a phytopathogenic fungus (P2.114)" #ECFG17
Session: Plant pathogenic fungi
Date/Time: Tuesday/17:30 β 19
@jwdebler.bsky.social of @theccdm.bsky.social got a poster (P2.128) on a mysterious genomic 'Loop' today #ECFG17
04.03.2025 08:37 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Come and check out our @theccdm.bsky.social posters on effector regulation (P2.114) and non-host fungal effectors (P2.113) today #ECFG17
04.03.2025 08:39 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0