Can you fool a plant into mis-identifying a beneficial symbiont? Yes you can! Check out our new paper where we use comparative transcriptomics to identify bi-functional signalling hubs controlling pathogenesis and mutualism in Eucalyptus. https://t.co/Ni5VshsSlf

It was such a great time a couple weeks ago getting to go to Gulaga Gold Truffles and digging for these amazing fungi as part of the NSW Fungi Feastival!

One year from today, we will be welcoming the mycorrhizal community to the International Conference on Mycorrhiza in Cairns, Australia! Remember to mark your calendar, and keep up to date via the website: https://t.co/aHSsMQpp2V

For Australian Domestic students interested in pursuing a PhD in molecular mycorrhizal studies, please consider applying for a scholarship-funded position in my lab ( https://t.co/CNKfgyEpuv) - our lab is a diverse group studying plant-microbe interactions from genes to landscapes

Interested in improving soil biodiversity and promote sustainable forestry? Think about applying for our PhD funded by our @westsyduhie industrial partner Rhizocore seeking to improve mycorrhizal diversity in plantation forestry: https://t.co/PqXOS49ajr

A fungal sRNA silences a host plant gene to promote mycorrhizal #symbiosis Silvestri et al. 📖 https://t.co/eS1tiqTjjO

So rewarding to work with people like @FungiFiend! Here they are presenting their @westsyduhie work supporting the softwood industry showing the impact of nursery/site management on beneficial microbial populations.

Please RT: If you are interested in studying the role of metabolite signalling molecules in fungal-fungal competition during mycorrhizal colonisation, @DrMCMoffitt and I have a funded PhD scholarship - please consider applying through https://t.co/dqvKuFfVBO

I got to finally try out single nuclei sorting yesterday - so cool! Now on to single nuclei sequencing 😊

Collab with @rootsofthenorth and Judith Lundberg-Felten to use microdialysis has allowed us new real-time insights into the signals shared between mycorrhizal fungi and their host without physically perturbing the system. Our latest publication https://t.co/Ij7YJNdL9L

My morning coffee partner enjoying a bit of sun 🌞

After wrestling with a particularly thorny data set for a few days, I just found the gold (ie results that make sense). I think I will log off now and celebrate a little bit 😆

Fungal signalling controlling a robot. Such a great visual way to show how fungi are not 'quiet', but send out all manner of signals into their environment. So we best not annoy them, otherwise they may come to get us 😅

Culturing Pisolithus from sporing bodies riddled with roots and came across this imprint of a mycorrhizal colonised root that was engulfed in the growing stipe. So pretty!

Hot off the press: @ColesDonovin's recent @westsyduhie work leveraging the sequencing of the Phytophthora medicaginis genome to begin digging into how effector-like secreted proteins may control chickpea root pathogenesis in a quantitative resistance model https://t.co/ZqL5FbaaVM

Celebrating Australasian mycologists at @IMC12NL : IMA Fellow to Tom May @RBGVScience Young mycologist awards to Johanna Wong @JohannaWHWong NSW DPI @westsyduhie and Camille Truong @CamilleTruong3 @RBGVScience Best young mycologist talk to Elle Bowd @EcologyElle @BiologyANU

Great open day @unisqaus! Lots on display, fun activities, information and wonderful live music - something for everyone. 👏

A huge congratulations again to @JohannaWHWong for winning this award from her @westsyduhie work. So well deserved.

Excited!!! #IMC12

Come to Australia in two years for #ICOM13! @FungiDownUnder 🍄