Dugald Reid received his PhD degree in 2012 from The University of Queensland, Australia and then worked in a postdoctoral position in Jens Stougaards group at Aarhus University, Denmark. Here he focused on legume nodule development and regulation. He returned to Australia, taking a position at La Trobe University in Melbourne at the start of 2023 where his group focuses on improving nitrogen fixation in legumes via genetics and biotechnology approaches. Currently he is a member of the Engineering Nutrient Symbiosis for Agriculture (ENSA) and N2CROP projects where he is seeking to translate his work on nodule regulation in model species to legume crops and understand the impact of altered nodule regulation in the field. Recent work has focused on the regulation of plant hormones during nodule establishment, the interaction of plant hormones with nitrate signalling and identification of infection related genes via single-cell sequencing.