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Cheryl Blundell

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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EffectorGeneP: accurate gene annotation in pathogen genomes from infection transcriptomes

Jana Sperschneider, Camilla Langlands-Perry, Jian Chen, Jibril Lubega, Taj Arndell, David Lewis, Eva C. Henningsen, Cheryl Blundell, Thomas Vanhercke, Kanyuka Kostya, Melania Figueroa, Peter N. Dodds

EffectorGeneP improves gene annotation in pathogen genomes by predicting coding sequences from transcript data, outperforming existing methods and expanding the predicted secretome.

bioRxiv · May 5, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology

A wheat tandem kinase sensor activates an NLR helper to trigger immunity

Renjie Chen, Jian Chen, Oliver R. Powell, Megan A. Outram, Taj Arndell, Karthick Gajendiran, Yan L. Wang, Jibril Lubega, Yang Xu, Michael Ayliffe, Cheryl Blundell, Melania Figueroa, Jana Sperschneider, Thomas Vanhercke, K. Kanyuka, , Brande B. H. Wulff

The paper identifies a two-component resistance mechanism in wheat where a tandem kinase sensor recruits an NLR helper to trigger immunity against fungal pathogens.

Science · Mar 27, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology