Dr Mylne (PhD, Botany) worked at the John Innes Centre (2001-2005), using molecular genetics to study proteins that accelerate flowering in response to prolonged cold (vernalization). In 2006 he moved to the IMB where he held a QEII Fellowship (2008-2012) and was the inaugural John S. Mattick Fellow (2010-2012). In 2013 he joined the faculty at The University of Western Australia and took up an ARC Future Fellowship in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry and The ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology. He became tenured by the UWA School of Molecular Sciences in 2017 and Associate Professor in 2018. In 2021 he became a Professor at Curtin Univeristy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Crop Disease Management. His research interests are protein evolution, the molecular mechanisms underlying the biosynthesis of bioactive peptides. More recently this focus has shifted to agrochemicals; namely the discovery of novel herbicides and targets and now to novel fungicides and their metabolism in planta.