Professor at the Australian National University. Biosecurity, fungal and plant genomics, evolution, and biochemistry. Dad. Swimming, reading, nature.
The Tattooed Professor
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Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Plants: Practical guidelines for multiplexing, label-free imaging and data analysis by Thomas Ott and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Great piece and very well written / understandable on how machine learning tools are being used - and not being used - in climate science and weather forecasts
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Joachim Goedhart
Omar Sakr
Please consider signing and sharing this petition to support greater care and consideration for Deakin University staff and students and transparency and justification for proposed major workplace change at Deakin. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do...
Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used?
🔔 Our synthesis on what’s going on in the field of TE control and RIP in the fungal world!
Out now in Trends in Genetics!
Ketan Joshi
Open letter from Deakin University staff
On the restructure, the resignation, and the obligation to do better
On 4 June, affected Deakin staff across two divisions of the University – Academic Portfo...
Generative design of synthetic gene circuits for functional and evolutionary properties
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS
In our latest collaborative work we identify a novel form of reversible fluconazole heteroresistance that is associated with variable islands of heterochromatin in clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans. Thanks to all @ Allshire, Heitman Bicanic labs especially 1st author @ybecky.bsky.social
'ANU Council approved the $250 million Renew ANU program (with its savings target of 16.5% of total expenditure) “without clear evidence it was needed, achievable, urgently required, or likely to have the intended impact”.'
This is a recurring pattern in university governance here and overseas.
my image is featured on the cover of New Phytologist!
Interested in receptor proximity labeling and how receptors coordinate meristem regulation? Find out more here:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Can one map the genome-wide binding (1) and its protein partners (2) simultaneously from the same sample?
Yes, one can. with CUT&ID ✂️🪪
Spearheaded — singlehandedly — by @annanordin.bsky.social
No need of transgenesis, cloning and overexpression.
Check it out, it's fast and its works.
npj Systems Biology and Applications - Generative design of synthetic gene circuits for functional and evolutionary properties
The fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is estimated to cause approximately 180,000 deaths annually, primarily among immunocompromised HIV patients in resource-limited countries in central and sou...
Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me
Penelope Lindsay
Nearly a year after our symposium on Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutations, I’m happy to share the fruit of some of our discussions.
The fungal RIP hypermutator mechanism has deep eukaryotic roots www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We hope to spark interest in this underappreciated mechanism.
Damon Young
Claudio Cantù
New:
How everything went so wrong at the ANU.
CUT&ID for simultaneous profiling of protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693662v1
