Paul Turner Lab

Interested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages?? Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.648… For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧵 (1/10)

Happy to share the preprint of our upcoming paper in the 13th edition of the Annual Review of Virology. In this paper, we take an interdisciplinary approach to explore how #phage therapy can increase healthcare equity around the globe. 🌏🏥 preprints.org/manuscript/202…

@_cathyhernandez is also co-hosting an in-depth symposium on phage ecology, featuring a terrific lineup of speakers. #ASMicrobe

And finally, postdoc @_cathyhernandez is presenting an EEB poster AND rapid fire talk on her work exploring how prophage shape thermal sensitivity in ocean-derived isolates of Pseudoalteromonas sp. #ASMicrobe 🔥

Come check out presentations from my amazing trainees at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025! A thread🧵 …

This preprint is now an official, peer-reviewed paper 🥳 Microscopic phage adsorption assay: High-throughput quantification of virus particle attachment to host bacterial cells pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Tweetorial at the other place: bsky.app/profile/did:pl…

Former @PaulTurnerLab postdoc @norapyenson featured Yale News today! Check out this overview on Nora's work or the full paper out in @ScienceMagazine #NoraSciencin news.yale.edu/2024/12/16/new… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

.. phage resistance evolution and GxE interactions..

The @KITP_UCSB QBio course on mobile elements was amazing 🩵 With excellent projects led by @PaulTurnerLab, Roberto Kolter, @jemersonmicro, @richardneher, @NimwegenLab, @benjaminhgood (+ me). Course began with a wetlab bootcamp, Dallas Mould demonstrating the first experiments..

.@AntaniJo (@Yale) etal developed a microscopy-based technique to measure #phage attachment to bacterial cells. This method provides an alternative to the century-old Phage Adsorption Assay. Feel free to reach out with any questions: jyot.antani@yale.edu. buff.ly/4fd1PnD

Finally, the preprint on my postdoc work from the past 3 years! With mentorship from @PaulTurnerLab and @EmonetLab, I developed a microscopic technique to measure attachment of viruses #phages to bacterial cells @YalePhage @QbioYale . biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'll be speaking about viral sociality at TEDxNewEngland on Wednesday 25th September, alongside a great lineup of other speakers. List of speakers & tickets here for anyone in the Boston area who might want to come: tedxnewengland.com/speakers #TEDxNE #SocialViruses #LoveVirology

First #QBioBreakfast featuring a joint effort from @PaulTurnerLab Postdoc @MouldDMicrobe and visiting summer undergrad Emma Kane presented a chalk talk on phage-antibiotic combination therapy and environmental factors affecting phage infections. 💊🦠

I am absolutely delighted to be joining the University of British Columbia next year as an Assistant Professor @ZoologyUBC. We will study social evolution in viruses.

Finally, Posdoc @AsherLeeks (Tues, 4:45-5PM, 520D) is discussing his recent theoretical work that explores the dynamics of social cheating during viral infection. His model suggests that viral social interactions may shape human disease outcomes more than previously thought 😷.

Undergrad Liya Miksovsky (Mon, 5:45-8:15PM, 220 DE) will present her work with @AsherLeeks demonstrating the evolution of social cheating in M13, which was underlain by an unexpected genetic cause🧬.

Hey #Evol2024! Interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions? Come check out the presentations by my amazing trainees, listed below! I'll give a brief preview of each presentation below 🧵