Noah Houpt
@noahhoupt.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecology PhD candidate at Yale University, Patriots fan, and obligately bipedal lobe-finned fish. (he/him)
Cathy is one of the most brilliant, supportive, and thoughtful scientists and mentors I’ve had the privilege of working with.
I would recommend working with Cathy to any student interested in bacteria-phage interactions.
Congrats, Cathy!! We will miss you dearly.
I would recommend working with Cathy to any student interested in bacteria-phage interactions.
Congrats, Cathy!! We will miss you dearly.
Very happy to share that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina in January! My group will be working on environmental phage ecology and evolution, and I am recruiting for the upcoming year (more info below).
October 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Cathy is one of the most brilliant, supportive, and thoughtful scientists and mentors I’ve had the privilege of working with.
I would recommend working with Cathy to any student interested in bacteria-phage interactions.
Congrats, Cathy!! We will miss you dearly.
I would recommend working with Cathy to any student interested in bacteria-phage interactions.
Congrats, Cathy!! We will miss you dearly.
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I gave a talk last year at TEDxNewEngland aimed at introducing the idea of viral sociality to a general audience, including implications for evolution & virology. Video now available online below.
#socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
#socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
The social lives of viruses | Asher Leeks | TEDxNewEngland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I gave a talk last year at TEDxNewEngland aimed at introducing the idea of viral sociality to a general audience, including implications for evolution & virology. Video now available online below.
#socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
#socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
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📢 We're seeking a postdoc to work on a project funded by HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social at the intersection of bacterial physiology, ecology and evolution. You can find more details about the project, the position, and how to apply here www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project! #bacteria #ecosky #MevoSky #microSky
HFSP project — dal bello lab
www.dalbellolab.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
📢 We're seeking a postdoc to work on a project funded by HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social at the intersection of bacterial physiology, ecology and evolution. You can find more details about the project, the position, and how to apply here www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project! #bacteria #ecosky #MevoSky #microSky
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Published in Nature today! Here, we sought to systematically ask how natural community's metabolism changes with the environment. A simple consumer-resource model can predict N-cycle metabolism (nitrate use) and, more importantly, the mechanism behind its change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change - Nature
Experimental perturbation of soil pH leads to a generalizable model of the soil microcosm comprising three functional regimes with distinct mechanisms linking environmental change to metabolite dynami...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Published in Nature today! Here, we sought to systematically ask how natural community's metabolism changes with the environment. A simple consumer-resource model can predict N-cycle metabolism (nitrate use) and, more importantly, the mechanism behind its change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to get to work on GRS 2027 with @duhitasant.bsky.social!!
Hit me up here or via email if you have any feedback or ideas for the next Micro Pop Biol GRS!
Hit me up here or via email if you have any feedback or ideas for the next Micro Pop Biol GRS!
Still winding down from the Microbial Population Biology GRS/GRC!🦠 It was a great experience to be GRS co-chair with @mikeblazanin.bsky.social, and congrats to the newly-elected GRS chairs @noahhoupt.bsky.social and @duhitasant.bsky.social!💃 #GRCMicroPop #MicroSky
July 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Excited to get to work on GRS 2027 with @duhitasant.bsky.social!!
Hit me up here or via email if you have any feedback or ideas for the next Micro Pop Biol GRS!
Hit me up here or via email if you have any feedback or ideas for the next Micro Pop Biol GRS!
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Thanks especially to fearless leaders @reeskassen.bsky.social and Christina Burch, and to @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social. It was a great to see the process that led up to an amazing 40th anniversary conference 🎉🍰
July 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thanks especially to fearless leaders @reeskassen.bsky.social and Christina Burch, and to @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social. It was a great to see the process that led up to an amazing 40th anniversary conference 🎉🍰
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Super stoked and honored to be elected as co-chair along with @ksbakes.bsky.social for the Microbial Population Biology 2029 GRC!
And looking forward to a great 2027 meeting in Andover chaired by @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social !
And looking forward to a great 2027 meeting in Andover chaired by @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social !
Looking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days!
go.bsky.app/GGxRjzC
go.bsky.app/GGxRjzC
July 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Super stoked and honored to be elected as co-chair along with @ksbakes.bsky.social for the Microbial Population Biology 2029 GRC!
And looking forward to a great 2027 meeting in Andover chaired by @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social !
And looking forward to a great 2027 meeting in Andover chaired by @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social !
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For #ASMicrobe folks - looking forward to a busy phage day on Sunday!
Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
(4/5)
Current postdoc, soon-to-be-PI @cathyhernandez.bsky.social is presenting a poster on the involvement of prophages in thermal ecology of marine microbes 🌊🦠
She is also convening a session on #prophages and giving a rapid fire talk! 🔥
(4/5)
Current postdoc, soon-to-be-PI @cathyhernandez.bsky.social is presenting a poster on the involvement of prophages in thermal ecology of marine microbes 🌊🦠
She is also convening a session on #prophages and giving a rapid fire talk! 🔥
June 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
For #ASMicrobe folks - looking forward to a busy phage day on Sunday!
Come check out my poster tomorrow at #ASMicrobe in the E&EB section!
We found that repressor mutations in Pf prophages sparked a coevolutionary dynamic that resulted in loss of twitch motility and susceptibility to virulent pilus-targeting phage.
Would love to chat about all things phage :).
We found that repressor mutations in Pf prophages sparked a coevolutionary dynamic that resulted in loss of twitch motility and susceptibility to virulent pilus-targeting phage.
Would love to chat about all things phage :).
Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
(3/5)
Grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social will present the story of experimentally evolving a Pseudomonas lab strain for 150 generations over 1000 days. Spoiler alerts: #prophages are important! 🦠📊
#evolution
(3/5)
Grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social will present the story of experimentally evolving a Pseudomonas lab strain for 150 generations over 1000 days. Spoiler alerts: #prophages are important! 🦠📊
#evolution
June 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Come check out my poster tomorrow at #ASMicrobe in the E&EB section!
We found that repressor mutations in Pf prophages sparked a coevolutionary dynamic that resulted in loss of twitch motility and susceptibility to virulent pilus-targeting phage.
Would love to chat about all things phage :).
We found that repressor mutations in Pf prophages sparked a coevolutionary dynamic that resulted in loss of twitch motility and susceptibility to virulent pilus-targeting phage.
Would love to chat about all things phage :).
January 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Yo folks, it is time to apply to *hands down the best conference in microbial evolution and ecology*:
www.grc.org/microbial-po...
We begin reviewing apps in 10 days! We strongly encourage everyone to give a poster. DM w/ questions.
www.grc.org/microbial-po...
We begin reviewing apps in 10 days! We strongly encourage everyone to give a poster. DM w/ questions.
2025 Microbial Population Biology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Population Biology will be held in Andover, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yo folks, it is time to apply to *hands down the best conference in microbial evolution and ecology*:
www.grc.org/microbial-po...
We begin reviewing apps in 10 days! We strongly encourage everyone to give a poster. DM w/ questions.
www.grc.org/microbial-po...
We begin reviewing apps in 10 days! We strongly encourage everyone to give a poster. DM w/ questions.
Former @paulturnerlab.bsky.social postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social featured Yale News today! Check out this overview on Nora's work or the full paper out in @science.org
news.yale.edu/2024/12/16/n...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
news.yale.edu/2024/12/16/n...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New insights into the vast diversity of nature’s most abundant viruses
A new Yale-led study offers insights into the “social lives” of viruses — findings that might advance the fight against antibiotic resistance.
news.yale.edu
December 17, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Former @paulturnerlab.bsky.social postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social featured Yale News today! Check out this overview on Nora's work or the full paper out in @science.org
news.yale.edu/2024/12/16/n...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
news.yale.edu/2024/12/16/n...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host
Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The UCSB KITP QBio course on mobile elements was amazing 🩵 With excellent projects led by @paulturnerlab.bsky.social, Roberto Kolter, Joanne Emerson, Richard Neher, @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social, Ben Good (+ me). Course began with a wetlab bootcamp, Dallas Mould demonstrating the first experiments..
November 20, 2024 at 10:38 PM
The UCSB KITP QBio course on mobile elements was amazing 🩵 With excellent projects led by @paulturnerlab.bsky.social, Roberto Kolter, Joanne Emerson, Richard Neher, @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social, Ben Good (+ me). Course began with a wetlab bootcamp, Dallas Mould demonstrating the first experiments..
Check out the latest edition of Rees’ book, which provides an exhaustive synthesis of how microbial experimental evolution studies have been applied to answer some of the big questions in ecology and evolution!
A must read for researchers starting out in MEE!
A must read for researchers starting out in MEE!
May 8, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Check out the latest edition of Rees’ book, which provides an exhaustive synthesis of how microbial experimental evolution studies have been applied to answer some of the big questions in ecology and evolution!
A must read for researchers starting out in MEE!
A must read for researchers starting out in MEE!
I still need them.
I still feed them.
Now they’re 64 (days old).
I still feed them.
Now they’re 64 (days old).
April 3, 2024 at 3:54 PM
I still need them.
I still feed them.
Now they’re 64 (days old).
I still feed them.
Now they’re 64 (days old).
Check out this amazing new paper led by PhD student Helen Stone where she shows that pseudoviruses studded with spike proteins from three different SARS-CoV-2 strains can enter cells expressing dolphin and beluga whale ace2!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
December 6, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Check out this amazing new paper led by PhD student Helen Stone where she shows that pseudoviruses studded with spike proteins from three different SARS-CoV-2 strains can enter cells expressing dolphin and beluga whale ace2!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Not an in person workshop, but ASM has recordings of their genomics webinars here: asm.org/Webinars/tra...
I've also been working on a list of commonly used bacterial population genomics software if that's at all useful: mortimerlab.com/microbial_ge...
I've also been working on a list of commonly used bacterial population genomics software if that's at all useful: mortimerlab.com/microbial_ge...
November 9, 2023 at 10:15 PM
Not an in person workshop, but ASM has recordings of their genomics webinars here: asm.org/Webinars/tra...
I've also been working on a list of commonly used bacterial population genomics software if that's at all useful: mortimerlab.com/microbial_ge...
I've also been working on a list of commonly used bacterial population genomics software if that's at all useful: mortimerlab.com/microbial_ge...
Dear microbial peeps,
Looking for a workshop that will give me a solid foundation in analyzing bacterial WGS and population sequencing data. I have no prior experience doing this.
Are y'all aware of any good workshops (esp. in North America) for gaining these skills?
Thanks!
Looking for a workshop that will give me a solid foundation in analyzing bacterial WGS and population sequencing data. I have no prior experience doing this.
Are y'all aware of any good workshops (esp. in North America) for gaining these skills?
Thanks!
November 9, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Dear microbial peeps,
Looking for a workshop that will give me a solid foundation in analyzing bacterial WGS and population sequencing data. I have no prior experience doing this.
Are y'all aware of any good workshops (esp. in North America) for gaining these skills?
Thanks!
Looking for a workshop that will give me a solid foundation in analyzing bacterial WGS and population sequencing data. I have no prior experience doing this.
Are y'all aware of any good workshops (esp. in North America) for gaining these skills?
Thanks!
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As populations diversify, what kind of interactions evolve? In this paper, Houpt & Kassen investigate how the evolution of interactions in microbial communities depends on environmental complexity.
Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
November 7, 2023 at 8:35 PM
As populations diversify, what kind of interactions evolve? In this paper, Houpt & Kassen investigate how the evolution of interactions in microbial communities depends on environmental complexity.
Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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gcplyr v1.7 is out now!
gcplyr is an R package that makes it easy to wrangle and do model-free analysis of #microbial growth curve data
This ver includes: more merges, better docs including how to do multiple plates of data, and other improvements
🦠 🧫 #MicroSky 🧪
github.com/mikeblazanin...
gcplyr is an R package that makes it easy to wrangle and do model-free analysis of #microbial growth curve data
This ver includes: more merges, better docs including how to do multiple plates of data, and other improvements
🦠 🧫 #MicroSky 🧪
github.com/mikeblazanin...
November 6, 2023 at 7:13 PM
gcplyr v1.7 is out now!
gcplyr is an R package that makes it easy to wrangle and do model-free analysis of #microbial growth curve data
This ver includes: more merges, better docs including how to do multiple plates of data, and other improvements
🦠 🧫 #MicroSky 🧪
github.com/mikeblazanin...
gcplyr is an R package that makes it easy to wrangle and do model-free analysis of #microbial growth curve data
This ver includes: more merges, better docs including how to do multiple plates of data, and other improvements
🦠 🧫 #MicroSky 🧪
github.com/mikeblazanin...
As I read this amazing new pre-print by @olimeacock.bsky.social, I was thinking about the implications for micro experimental evol. Much of what we know about how microbes evolve is via experiments that passage microbes in batch culture with ~1:100 daily transfers..
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2023 at 10:32 PM
As I read this amazing new pre-print by @olimeacock.bsky.social, I was thinking about the implications for micro experimental evol. Much of what we know about how microbes evolve is via experiments that passage microbes in batch culture with ~1:100 daily transfers..
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...