Josh Borin

Confident this is the first phage on a surfboard! Handshaped at @ucsd craft center ✋🏽🤪

I am looking for a post-doc to work on our ⁦@MBIEsci⁩ project on #phages for #biocontrol #microbiology #genomics #genetics ⁦@microtago⁩ ⁦@otago⁩ pls repost otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

Many (belated) thanks to the organizers and everyone at @VoM_2024 for rekindling my stoke for phages and providing an excuse to finally visit Australia and dive the GBR

Congrats @kr_gerbino on your first 1st-authored paper. Krista found that our molecular model for how lambda evolves to use new receptors applies to phi21 too! 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please share! Here's our latest preprint on the university-wide mentorship program @bummp_ucsd, highlighting its profound impact on biology students from all backgrounds. In 4 years, this pioneering initiative has served over 1,350 mentees!!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New @biorxivpreprint on optimizing experiments to infer multiphasic decay of infectious viruses, led by Jeremy Seurat & @justinrmeyer team, we leverage synthetic sims to design, implement and identify a hidden majority of rapidly decaying phage biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Niche theory does not explain how species evolve to exploit unique niches. Using experimental and computational approaches, Doud et al. show that resource competition can deform fitness landscapes, promoting ecological speciation. @justinrmeyer nature.com/articles/s4146…

Amazing work @ScienceMagazine from @ucsdbiosciences Josh Borin @jm_borin @justinrmeyer lab In just 21 days of laboratory coevolution, Escherichia coli and bacteriophage Φ21 coevolve and diversify to form elaborate cross-infection networks. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@wc_ratcliff @joshuasweitz thanks will!

Amazing, congrats Justin, @jm_borin (alum from my group!) and @joshuasweitz! Looks like a super cool paper.

Our newest paper was published today, a capstone to our work on gain-of-function evolution, phage-bacterial interaction network formation, and microbial diversification.

Today in @ScienceMagazine: Rather than a slow, gradual process as Darwin envisioned, biologists can now see how evolutionary changes unfold on much more accelerated timescales. @justinrmeyer @jm_borin @UMDscience today.ucsd.edu/story/bacteria…

@KatmaiNPS a familiar image!

Tonight is Daylight Savings, and the days are getting shorter! Shorter days are considered environmental cues for bears to head into the den. 🌅 Bears won't notice that much as they head into the den, we can enjoy an extra hour of sleep tonight. 😴 NPS Photo/F. Jimenez

.@EnustunEray (@ucsdbiosciences) and colleagues have used proximity labelling and localization mapping to systematically map out the protein interaction network of the ‘#phage nucleus’ made by jumbo phages. buff.ly/3Pci3S8

@HaererAndreas @lifeatthebench @ASNAmNat congrats Andi!

Congrats, Infectious Disease Fellow Mike Doud on an incredible paper quantifying the fitness landscape underlying bacteriophage lambda speciation. Also congrats to @anigupta12 and several talented coauthors who made important contributions. 🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@JessGob @justinrmeyer @IPATH

3rd chapter from my PhD is published! We used mouse models to test the effect of fecal VIROME transplants on the microbiome and host physiology. 💉🐁💩🦠 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Some jumbo #phages have evolved a protein shell that encloses their replicating genome. @EnustunEray etal have used proximity labeling to identify a ‘phage nucleus protein interaction network’, including 6 uncharacterized nuclear shell-associated proteins buff.ly/43EEeGV

📢New review alert 📢 Developing Phage Therapy That Overcomes the Evolution of Bacterial Resistance (proof posted online) My first piece of publication from @PaulTurnerLab @QbioYale @YalePhage 🎉🥳 doi.org/10.1146/annure…

@wc_ratcliff @justinrmeyer starting pronto w Justin!

@jm_borin @justinrmeyer oh very cool- you have a PD lined up yet?

Last Friday was a blur! Huge thanks to @justinrmeyer, my committee, and my amazing colleagues and friends for their unwavering support. PhDone! 🥳🥳🥳

@SahGovind @justinrmeyer thank you so much Govind!