I-D Cascade paper made Editor’s Highlights Nature Communications. Congrats Evan Schwartz UTexasILS NaturalSciences @ UT and Tess McBride University of Otago with Peter Fineran and Rob Fagerlund.

Thank you for the great supervision Rob Fagerlund and Peter Fineran, I have had an incredible time! 🔬🥂

✨Excited to share our new review on type I-D CRISPR–Cas systems!✨ Tess McBride Rob Fagerlund Peter Fineran Microbiology and Immunology Otago Genetics Otago portlandpress.com/biochemj/artic…

It may be a bit chilly at the moment, but the fungi still need studying! Crack team of Tess McBride Bronwyn Thuaux and Claudia Vacca out sampling one of our pine field sites 😀

Western Sydney Uni has a competitive PhD scholarship round open to int'l and domestic students. If you are interested in applying for a project with me and Tess McBride concerning plant signalling proteins involved in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, DM me!

When two tree experiments coincide, we kinda take up a bit of space! But it's fun to work on these together (don't worry, my lab coat appeared after the picture 😆)

It was a beautiful weekend to be out sampling one of our Western Sydney - HIE mycorrhizal trials! A big thank you to Phil from Forestry Corp NSW, Tess McBride Damian Gaona, and Bronwyn Thuaux :)

A great presentation by Tess McBride at #ASPS2023 on how secreted mycorrhizal signals control host colonisation and how structural modelling is opening new avenues of research.

Congratulations Caitlin Caitlin Byrt on both the Jan Anderson Award and a wonderful presentation at #ASPS2023! Exciting times ahead with membrane protein engineering, but also challenges for diversity and equality in science. Inspiring stuff! Australian Society of Plant Scientists

Bioluminescence at Hobart Wharf. We sounded like rowdy teenagers cheering with Vinod Jacob, Chris Buckley, Tess McBride and Natascha Weinberger and others after #ASPS2023

Also had a great time after the #ASPS2023 conference. Action shot of Chris Buckley slurping oysters and making me look tan. Such a great time chilling with plant nerds Natascha Weinberger Tess McBride + more 💚💚💚💚

The commitment of my team in the search for mycorrhizal root samples spans the weather zones! From hot humid days, freak storms, hail, to damp, cold mists, Damian Gaona, Tess McBride, and Bronwyn Thuaux get it done!

Meike Katharina Heuck shows that organic management shapes AM fungal community structure and function in sorghum #ICOM12 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024

Fabulous Australasian research focusing on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and drought. Jay Delves from ⁦Western Sydney - HIE⁩ is painstakingly separating AM spores and hyphae to find that water limitation has disproportionate effects their biomass pools. #ICOM12 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024

Famous A/Prof Jonathan Plett. Pisolithus, an impressive ectomycorrhizal fungus from the genes up to the ecology.

This is what 250 ceilidh dancing mycorrhizologists look like!! #ICOM12

I had an incredible time at #ICOM12 and it was great to finally meet so many mycorrhizal scientists 🍄 Apologies for the not mycorrhizal fungus 🪵

Standing room only at our Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 symposium The University of Sheffield Science at Sheffield on innovation in plant and soil sciences to tackle critical global challenges! 🌿🌍👥

Aaaand that’s all folks! 🎬 What a fantastic symposium - thank you to everyone who made it all possible, all our amazing speakers, participants and organising team, big thanks to Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐, @newphyt foundation and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research for your generous support 🌿🍄🌍👥🔥 💦Science at Sheffield

Sad to say goodbye to our Western Sydney - HIE friends today at the end of our Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research workshop - so many exciting and promising avenues for building our partnership, can’t wait to see what happens next…! Safe travels everyone, see you all again soon! 👋🤩🌿🌏🦠🍄🔥💦