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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · 7h

Yay Cathy!!!

Cathy Hernandez @cathyhernandez.bsky.social · 8h

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).

A graphic advertising phage ecology and evolution research at the University of South Carolina, showing a central image of a tide pool flanked by a photo of an agar plate containing diverse microbes and a TEM image of a virus particle.

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Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happy to see this paper finally out in @pnas.org!

#phage #microbiology #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🧫 🔬

Gift link: www.pnas.org/eprint/YYDZ9...

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OMIBS @ MBL @omibs-mbl.bsky.social · Aug 12

We're gearing up for #OMIBS2025
Getting stuff ready for the participants' arrival. The course kicks off tonight!

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 24

They're within the ovaries.
Yes, it is super cool! Always refreshing to do microscopy with non-bacteria samples at times 😆

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 24

@jenncoughlan.bsky.social here's couple more fresh ones while we wait for the scope to take full Z-stacks

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 24

Ovaries and stigma of Mimulus plants, stained with Aniline blue.
Max Z projections from just widefield fluorescence images! 💙🔬🤩

#microscopy with Henry Arenas-Castro @jenncoughlan.bsky.social lab

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 22

Going for the mini plushie at @asm.org #ASMicrobe 🦠🔬

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 21

Know Your Worth: Salary Data that Defends Your Value
@asm.org ASM Studio
#ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
asm.org/articles/sal...

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Noah Houpt @noahhoupt.bsky.social · Jun 20

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 :).

Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
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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

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Cathy Hernandez @cathyhernandez.bsky.social · Jun 20

For #ASMicrobe folks - looking forward to a busy phage day on Sunday!

Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
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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! 🔥

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 20

It was fun hanging out at Microbe in 2022. Hope to meet at a future meeting! (Phage meeting @ DC in Oct?)

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 20

ASM studio, the best part (IMO) of the #ASMicrobe meeting @asm.org
#ASMicrobe2025

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 20

Come to my poster 🔬🦠
#ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
#phage #phagesky

Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
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Associate Research Scientist @antanij.bsky.social is telling a story about multidimensional measurements (including high-throughput adsorption assays) of phage-bacteria interactions #microscopy 🔬

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bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social · Jun 13

Phage-Assisted Evolution of Allosteric Protein Switches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659331v1

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 12

#phagesky

ASM @asm.org · Jun 10

The human body is chock full of phages, from the skin to the gut. What role does the phageome have in health and disease? Watch Microbial Minutes for the story! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PyM...

The Phageome’s Role in Health and Disease

YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology

www.youtube.com

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 9

Short doi for this #ScienceOutreach article:
doi.org/pqns

Glowing Viruses: How Strong is Their Grip?

Axone Artical

doi.org

Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · Jun 6

*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...

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · May 16

Beautiful! 😍

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Krista Freeman @kfreeman.bsky.social · Apr 16

Hurray, it is finally out! Meet bacteriophage Bxb1 - the subject of my first full-phage cryo-EM study. My structures are beautifully complemented by the Park Lab’s cryo-ET analysis, shedding light on mycobacteriophage structural changes during infection.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Structure and infection dynamics of mycobacteriophage Bxb1

Mycobacteriophage Bxb1 is a well-characterized virus of Mycobacterium smegmatis with double-stranded DNA and a long, flexible tail. Mycobacteriophages…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · May 16

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...

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · May 16

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* night mode (also relevant beside just reading if you make your presentations in black background - you can snip the figures in dark mode and paste into your presentation, which looks more professional than pasting a white-background figure)

Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · May 16

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key strengths for me:
* click on a reference (e.g., number or FirstAuthor Year) and it brings up the full detail (title, authors, year, google scholar link) without going to ref section
* click on figure reference, brings you to figure. click back button, brings you back

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · May 16

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extension *really* useful in research after a long time! (possibly after Google Scholar Button)
AI outline may come in handy at some point (my mind's jury is out on that), but...

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/googl...

Google Scholar PDF Reader - Chrome Web Store

Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save.

chromewebstore.google.com

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · May 8

Latest paper drop from Yale Phage Center @paulturnerlab.bsky.social

INCATE @incate.bsky.social · May 6

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...

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

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Jyot Antani @antanij.bsky.social · May 8

Very cool thread!

Zach LaTurner @micronaut.bsky.social · May 6

Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6

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Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in communities using ribosomal RNA barcoding

Bacteriophages (phages) facilitate gene transfer and microbial evolution in all ecosystems and have applications as tools for engineering microbiomes and as antimicrobials. Historic efforts to map pha...

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