Another step in the #Starship story - they move via a circular intermediate. Helps explain how these elements horizontally transfer and means that we can modify them into transformation vectors (starmids). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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I’m delighted to share our new pre-print: Make it so: Rapid and affordable plasmid sequencing on ONT platforms with PICARD-seq www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I wanted to use a MinION to sequence my large repetitive plasmids in-house. Luckily @jwdebler.bsky.social was willing to help. 1/14

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🔬 Our CCDM staff and students are looking forward to @cbsmwa.bsky.social this week, with our researchers and students sharing their latest discoveries across plant science, genetics, pathology and crop protection. 👏 Special hand to @jwdebler.bsky.social for his work on the organising committee

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📣 New preprint! 🧵 Fantastic work led by @antonkraege.bsky.social Fact: Cerato-platanins are everywhere in fungi. Found across the fungal kingdom, implicated in everything from development to virulence to immune activation. But what do they *actually* do? We finally found the answer 👇

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Sign up for the Garvan Long-Read Research Symposium 2026, a day filled with talks/discussions on the latest advances in long-read sequencing technology and related genomics, transcriptomics and epigenetics research using @nanoporetech.com and @pacbio.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com.au/e/garvan-lon...

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