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

Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025
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Recent PhD graduate Andrew Peric has a poster on experimental evolution of dengue virus. 🦟🦠
Andrew is actively on the job market!! #virology #evolution

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

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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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

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 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 · Apr 17

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

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

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

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/...

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Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social · Dec 17

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...

Noah Houpt @noahhoupt.bsky.social · Dec 17

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/...

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

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Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social · Dec 13

Beautiful paper from our ex-postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social

Nora Pyenson @norapyenson.bsky.social · Dec 12

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

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Paul Turner Lab @paulturnerlab.bsky.social · Dec 3

Tailed and Bursting with joy!

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Honour McCann @honour.bsky.social · Nov 20

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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Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social · Nov 15

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...

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

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