Paul Turner Lab
@paulturnerlab.bsky.social
Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
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Postbac Matthew Davidson will present a poster about phage Woody 🪵 #newPhageAlert
Matthew will be applying for grad school soon!
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Postbac Matthew Davidson will present a poster about phage Woody 🪵 #newPhageAlert
Matthew will be applying for grad school soon!
June 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
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Postbac Matthew Davidson will present a poster about phage Woody 🪵 #newPhageAlert
Matthew will be applying for grad school soon!
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Postbac Matthew Davidson will present a poster about phage Woody 🪵 #newPhageAlert
Matthew will be applying for grad school soon!
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*High-school level summary article*
Wrote a piece describing our recent paper @paulturnerlab.bsky.social to a high-school educated audience. #phagesky #microsky
Reach out if you want to do the same for your recent paper. It's super fun!
www.journaloflifesciences.org/archives/156...
Wrote a piece describing our recent paper @paulturnerlab.bsky.social to a high-school educated audience. #phagesky #microsky
Reach out if you want to do the same for your recent paper. It's super fun!
www.journaloflifesciences.org/archives/156...
June 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
*High-school level summary article*
Wrote a piece describing our recent paper @paulturnerlab.bsky.social to a high-school educated audience. #phagesky #microsky
Reach out if you want to do the same for your recent paper. It's super fun!
www.journaloflifesciences.org/archives/156...
Wrote a piece describing our recent paper @paulturnerlab.bsky.social to a high-school educated audience. #phagesky #microsky
Reach out if you want to do the same for your recent paper. It's super fun!
www.journaloflifesciences.org/archives/156...
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Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Latest paper drop from Yale Phage Center @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
Yale researchers have made a breakthrough in fighting drug-resistant infections in cystic fibrosis with inhaled bacteriophage therapy - offering new hope against antimicrobial resistance.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Personalized inhaled bacteriophage therapy for treatment of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis - Nature Medicine
A novel personalized phage therapy strategy that selects phages for a predicted evolutionary trade-off may represent a viable alternative approach for the treatment of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria...
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Latest paper drop from Yale Phage Center @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
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YaleNews @yale.edu covered our recent paper on measuring virus attachment 🦠🔬🤩
@paulturnerlab.bsky.social @emonetlab.bsky.social
news.yale.edu/2025/04/15/n...
#MicroSky #PhageSky #Microscopy #Fluorescence
@paulturnerlab.bsky.social @emonetlab.bsky.social
news.yale.edu/2025/04/15/n...
#MicroSky #PhageSky #Microscopy #Fluorescence
New tool offers insights into virus-cell interactions
A method developed by Yale scientists helps reveal how antibacterial agents interact with their host cells — a process that could boost a host of applications that benefit society.
news.yale.edu
April 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
YaleNews @yale.edu covered our recent paper on measuring virus attachment 🦠🔬🤩
@paulturnerlab.bsky.social @emonetlab.bsky.social
news.yale.edu/2025/04/15/n...
#MicroSky #PhageSky #Microscopy #Fluorescence
@paulturnerlab.bsky.social @emonetlab.bsky.social
news.yale.edu/2025/04/15/n...
#MicroSky #PhageSky #Microscopy #Fluorescence
Our postdoc @antanij.bsky.social's paper is out! Check out his thread explaining the motivation and main takeaways.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 20, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Our postdoc @antanij.bsky.social's paper is out! Check out his thread explaining the motivation and main takeaways.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted below is the Yale News coverage about our former postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social's latest paper.
And linked below is the summary post from Nora: bsky.app/profile/nora...
And linked below is the summary post from Nora: bsky.app/profile/nora...
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 5:16 PM
Reposted below is the Yale News coverage about our former postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social's latest paper.
And linked below is the summary post from Nora: bsky.app/profile/nora...
And linked below is the summary post from Nora: bsky.app/profile/nora...
Beautiful paper from our ex-postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social
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 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Beautiful paper from our ex-postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social
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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..
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Hello new phage phollowers!
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition
The ubiquity of bacteriophages (phages) and the major evolutionary and ecological
impacts they can have on their microbial hosts has resulted in phages often cited
as key drivers shaping microbial com...
www.cell.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Hello new phage phollowers!
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...