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Mike Csukai

@mcsukai.bsky.social
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Fungal & oomycete plant pathology. BioInformatics, genetics, biochemistry & cell biology for the discovery of novel fungal control methods. Views are my own

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Kostya Kanyuka @kostya-kanyuka.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
UK wheat faces a serious new threat: yellow rust has overcome Yr15 resistance in major varieties. A BBSRC /DEFRA Rapid Response led by JIC with Niab and RRes as partners is hunting new resistance genes to protect harvests. 🌾 www.niab.com/news-views/n...
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
PRESS RELEASE - Rapid response launched to tackle new yellow rust strains threatening UK wheat Fifty percent of the UK’s wheat is under threat from a newly identified strain of the yellow rust pathogen, due to the breakdown of a key resistance gene, Yr15 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... 1/ 🧵 (cont)
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A big step forward for Biotalys, the #EPA is recommending the registration of our first biofungicide #EVOCA. biotalys.com/media/news/e...
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Want good Bioinformatics resources for Phytopathogens? Plant pathology community at @bspp.bsky.social and @britmycolsoc.org.uk please take the time to complete the Phytopathogen Genomics Resources Survey:- 🔗 zurl.co/gKjC1 Your input is important for FungiDB/@veupathdb.org & Ensembl @ebi.embl.org.
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"Don't lose hope" Each of us an make a difference, even if it is small to improving the planet for todays and future children...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 18/09/2025
🔬 Are you working on AMR-related innovations? We are planning a B2B partnering event to connect academic entrepreneurs with UK & Irish businesses in the AMR space, before Annual Conference 2026. Register your interest today - microb.io/48ide4Q #Microbio26 #KnockingOutAMR
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Annual Conference 2026
13─16 April 2026
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Congratulations Megan!!!! @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social
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British Society of Plant Pathology @bspp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Exciting insights from Evans Lagudah presenting on durable resistance to rusts: how ‘muscle’ (strong, race-specific) & ‘backbone’ (multi-pathogen, partial) R genes combine for long-lasting protection. #PlantPathology #PPATH2025
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British Society of Plant Pathology @bspp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Leena Tripathi presents how genome editing is creating disease-resistant bananas and plantains, targeting BXW and Banana Streak Virus without introducing foreign DNA. A major step for food security and smallholder farmers. #PPATH2025
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Luca Cornetti on SPORNADO Early Alert System for Crop Disease spornadosampler.com @spornadosampler #PPATH2025
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Spornado | Early Alert System for Crop Disease | Early Alert System for Crop Disease
The Spornado Sampler is an innovative, easy-to-use crop disease early alert system that changes everything. Learn more here!
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
On train to Nottingham and looking forward too catching up with the BSPP community. @bspp.bsky.social #PPATH2025
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
If there is little to learn from LLM's will always struggle. Plus LLMs still have a have significant number of "hallucinations", i.e. it gets things wrong.
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 03/09/2025
Almost 50% of lab workers identify as neurodiverse. So what difference could it make for research organisations to fully embrace neurodiversity in their workplace culture? We supported the John Innes Centre to implement a project aiming to do just that 👇
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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Post by @steveharvey, not on Bluesky, on the UK Biobank latest release of 500k whole genomes: A mind-blowing paper from the UK Biobank last week: whole genome sequencing of 490,640 participants.
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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM) seeks 2 Assay Development scientists to support assay development and drug discovery. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Assay Development Scientist 2: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🆕 Funded #PhD with Dr Chris Quince at the Earlham Institute and @quadraminstitute.bsky.social, working on understanding the mechanisms of faecal #microbiome transplantation, with major potential impact to the treatment of IBD. buff.ly/ZaWxIZI #microbiomeresearch @mmbdtp.bsky.social
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Strain-level dynamics of microbiome transplantation
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Genome Editing @CIMMYT apply.workable.com/cimmyt-1/j/E...
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IRS25114, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Genome Editing - CIMMYT
CIMMYT is a cutting edge, non-profit, international organization dedicated to solving tomorrow's problems today. It is entrusted with fostering improved quantity, quality, and dependability of product...
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There is still time to apply to our international MSc: Agrigenomics. The website might look a bit old, the course contents are up to date: everything from Molecular Biology to Applied Genomics, in an agriculture context! Questions? message me! www.agrigenomics.agrar.uni-kiel.de/en/application
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Application procedure and admission
Application procedure and admission
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Yes, but no mention that I can find as to what this MoA is.
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
💬 “Being in Norwich, at the heart of UK #plantsciences, will allow me to build strong collaborations and contribute to the development of resilient, sustainable #crops capable of meeting the challenges of a growing population and a changing climate.” - @willshaw.bsky.social buff.ly/FQEQcIP #synbio
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New Career Development Fellows enhance data-driven bioscience at the Earlham Institute
The Earlham Institute has appointed two new Career Development Fellows, supporting their journey towards establishing independent research groups.
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The dominant lineage of Phakopsora pachyrhizi in the United States of America does not have a Brazilian origin www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The dominant lineage of Phakopsora pachyrhizi in the United States of America does not have a Brazilian origin
### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Nice review of wheat and Zymoseptoria tritici interactions apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
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The Molecular Dialogue Between Zymoseptoria tritici and Wheat | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
Zymoseptoria tritici is a highly damaging pathogen that causes high wheat yield losses in temperate climates. Z. tritici emerged during the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent and has been ...
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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
www.science.org/content/arti...
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As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings
Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Tonight's moon with Venus just above.
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Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I have extended the deadline to apply for this post-doctoral role to work with me on the Biochemistry of Starship Transposon to this Sunday the 5th of January...original deadline set on a holiday set by HR (not me)! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow - School of Biosciences - 104926 - Grade 7
This post-doctoral role is associated with Dr. McDonald’s UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, and will explore the biochemistry of the Starship transposases. These transposases are the enzymes responsible ...
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Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Cool read in @plosbiology.bsky.social showing that horizontal transfers between fungal Fusarium species contributed to successive outbreaks of coffee wilt disease, and suggesting a key role for Starship transposons journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Horizontal transfers between fungal Fusarium species contributed to successive outbreaks of coffee wilt disease
Outbreaks of coffee wilt disease, caused by the fungus Fusarium xylarioides, have severely impacted coffee production. By sequencing and comparing 13 historical strains spanning 60 years and multiple ...
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Megan McDonald @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
HI old friends! Finally took the leap here to say I have several open positions going in my lab at the moment (and more to come). 1) PhD studentship in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (genomics) 2) Biochemistry Postdoc to understand how Starships move Check out the links below!
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Magnus Rattray @mrattray.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
With @sokratiag.bsky.social, Kevin Couper and Hongpeng Zhou I'm offering a PhD opportunity at the University of Manchester, UK, on Multimodal AI methods for spatial omics data to characterise tumour microenvironments bit.ly/3Oub4E6
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EPPO @epponews.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The November issue of the EPPO Reporting Service is online: gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs.... It provides recent reports of emerging and quarantine pests, invasive alien plants, as well as updates on biological control agents #planthealth
content of the issue:
34	New data on quarantine pests and pests of the EPPO Alert List
235	Documenting new EU quarantine pests in the EPPO Global Database
236	New IPPC document: Climate-change impacts on plant pests: a technical resource to support national and regional plant protection organizations
237	First report of Scirtothrips dorsalis in Portugal
238	First report of an Epitrix species on potato in Italy
239	First report of Hemadas nubilipennis in the Netherlands
240	Oligonychus perditus does not occur in Serbia
241	Update on the situation of Xylotrechus chinensis in Spain
242	Update on the situation of Xylotrechus chinensis in Greece
243	First reports of Dryocosmus kuriphilus, Oligonychus perseae and Phoracantha recurva in the Azores (PT)
244	Host plants of Euwallacea fornicatus in Australia
245	Eradication of Meloidogyne enterolobii from the Netherlands
246	Globodera pallida found again in Slovenia
247	First report of Xylella fastidiosa in continental China
248	Update on the situation of Xylella fastidiosa in Iran and first record on alfalfa
249	Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae does not occur in Argentina
250	Revision of the taxonomy of Grosmannia wageneri
251	Pre-emptive biological control of Spodoptera frugiperda using Trichogramma species
252	Biological control of Ailanthus altissima in the United States
253	Potential for Chrysoperla carnea as a biological control for stink bugs
254	First report of Youngia japonica in the Azores archipelago (PT)
255	First report of Artemisia verlotiorum in Azerbaijan
256	Studies of four invasive alien plants in Southwestern Georgia
257	Manual removal of Reynoutria japonica along a river in Canada
258	Long-term chemical control of Reynoutria species in the Czech Republic
259	Pueraria montana var. lobata in Croatia
260	Comparisons of herbivory on native and non-native plants in botanical gardens in Europe
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I may work on fungal plant pathogens but I can appreciate the biochemical products of other fungi...e.g. Oh, I do love a Belgian beer now and then!
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Agreed! There are a significant number of species used as environmental safety assessment indicator species where the genomic data (therefore molecular target data understanding) is missing.
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 19/11/2024
The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied! #SciComms #Science #Taxonomy 🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018 @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Always a sucker for a pretty astrophysics photo!
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Wow, I know it looked like a public toilet from the out side but I have a soft spot for the Adrian Building. I guess it is all part of the 1960/70 aerated concrete issues.
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
No?
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Reaction on cue! 😊
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Early Registration for ECFG17 satellite meetings on 2 March are still open till Dec 6. The Basal (zygos and chytrids) Fungal Symposium should be a a fun one to participate in! www.ecfg17.org
Flier listing dates and times for basal fungal symposium at ECFG17 and reminder to register before Dec 6
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Slightly sad as they are magnificent animals.
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have left Twitter/X because it has seems to have become a propaganda tool for the far right under Musk. the last straw was recent "notifications" from Dominic Cummings and Lee Anderson people I do not follow and do not wish too.
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Its only a game 😂.....
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Why is so little known about the cell walls of plant pathogenic fungi given that it is a key component for protection in the plant pathogen interaction? Way more is know about human fungal pathogens:-
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Mike Young @mkeyoung.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
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Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New!!!👇 #NLRbiology Kudos @amiralito_ @ryoheiterauchi @YuSugiharaY
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📽️ Our recent webinar with @vizgen.bsky.social is now available to watch on demand. Earlham Institute scientists shared their journey of working with the MERSCOPE #SpatialTranscriptomics platform, offering insights on their methods for working with non-model samples. us02web.zoom.us/rec/componen...
Computer screen shoring the MERFISH imaging software highlighting regions of wheat spikelets
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📜 A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization 🧑‍🔬 Nick Dunken, @algazuccaro.bsky.social, et al. 📔 Cell Host & Microbe 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
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A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization
The intracellular colonization of plant roots by the beneficial fungal endophyte Serendipita indica follows a biphasic strategy, including a host cell…
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We're looking forward to the inaugural Dame Janet Thornton Lecture this afternoon, delivered by Elinor Karlsson (@elinork.bsky.social) - Director of Vertebrate #Genomics at the @broadinstitute.org of MIT and Harvard. 🖥️🧬
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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Last few days to apply for a PhD studentship in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...
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Identification of novel virulence determinants in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae | Doctoral Training Partnership
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Mike Csukai @mcsukai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
G4S linkers can cause unexpected truncations in mammalian cell expression of Ab constructs:-Discovery and investigation of the truncation of the (GGGGS)n linker and its effect on the productivity of bispecific antibodies expressed in mammalian cells. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Discovery and investigation of the truncation of the (GGGGS)n linker and its effect on the productivity of bispecific antibodies expressed in mammalian cells
Download Citation | Discovery and investigation of the truncation of the (GGGGS)n linker and its effect on the productivity of bispecific antibodies expressed in mammalian cells | Protein engineering ...
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