I am a biochemist with interests in all areas of plant immunity studied through various pathosystems. My lab has made important contributions on recognition of pathogens by plants, and suppression of host immunity by pathogens. My PhD was in plant virology at the Waite Campus, University of Adelaide, and I did postdoctoral work on tomato immunity at the University of California, Davis. Subsequently, I ran a research group studying tomato and Arabidopsis pathogens at the The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK. I moved to ANU in 2009 with an ARC Future Fellowship and expanded my interests to include genomics of the biotrophic rust fungi of wheat.

Plant immunity Plant-microbe interactions Plant signal transduction