The preprint was already exciting but this awesome single-virus paper from @joshuasweitz.bsky.social lab is now published in a great journal! phys.org/news/2026-07...

Scientists find hidden individuality in viral infections

An international team of researchers developed a new way to uncover hidden differences in how viruses infect and destroy individual microbial cells—solving a biological puzzle that has persisted for m...

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Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bacteriophage continue to have so much to teach us. It's in our interest to understand how they work and impact human & environmental health. New joint work led by @mariandm.bsky.social & @rantahan.bsky.social inferring single-cell latent period & burst size heterogeneity from population dynamics.

Now @paulturnerlab.bsky.social on phage therapy

Looking forward to presenting at ASM Microbe 2026! @asm.org Grateful for the opportunity to share our work and learn from so many brilliant researchers in one place. See you in Washington, D.C. #ASMicrobe invt.io/1bxbe1gvcjt

Sharing New Research at ASM Microbe 2026

I’ll be presenting at ASM Microbe 2026, showcasing new insights in microbial science. Join us June 4–7 in Washington, D.C.

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📣Huge preprint 🔔 Today we share something our group has been working toward for a long time, led by @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social We asked can we predict which receptor a phage targets from its genome sequence alone? For most phages, we couldn’t. So Lucas set out to do something I had only dreamed of.

How do #bacteriophage life history strategies influence host invasion & inter- #phage competition in #biofilms? This study shows that spatial structure shapes invasion success, favoring temperate phages over lytic ones when diffusion is limited @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47Aripq

@paulturnerlab.bsky.social and I wrote a perspective on the need and recently developed approaches to study individual virus traits in the most numerous viruses on our planet (phages). Let's move beyond measuring the mean #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s44... #microsky #virology #microscopy

Excited for the Connecticut Valley Branch of @asm.org Annual General Meeting 📅 April 24, 2026 📍Brown University (Providence, RI)! Abstracts welcome (some selected for short talks)! Register by April 17: forms.gle/d5XHpdLD1G3S... #Microbiology #ASM #AcademicSky

DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰ Apply to Optical Microscopy & Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences (OMIBS) by April 1. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/OMIBS

We are the Connecticut Valley Branch of @asm.org If you are in CT, RI, or parts of NH (zip 03400-03499, 03600-03799) or MA (zip 01000-01699), please join us for: ⭐ Undergraduate Research Opportunities 📊 Scientific Meetings 📶 Networking sites.google.com/view/ctvalle...

New paper 🔔 Collaboration @sullivan-lab.bsky.social Marissa Gittrich led the work Klebsiella phage biology has focused almost entirely on capsulated strains, but capsule loss is the #1 resistance mechanism under phage predation. We used a naturally acapsular host to reveal the receptor landscape

Yet another awesome single-phage paper from Ido Golding's lab #phagesky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Who runs the world? PHAGE!! Phage dynamics underlie bacterial reaponses to temperatures in a marine bacterium #phagesky #microsky

Cathy Hernandez@cathyhernandez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to share a preprint of work from my postdoc with @paulturnerlab.bsky.social exploring how prophages can impact host thermal ecology and evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages?? Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧵 (1/10)

🦠🧪🧬🚨 New paper and database alert: the new IMG/VR release is now MetaVR ! We have a new website - meta-virome.org - with quick search capabilities for the >24M viruses, >12M vOTUs, and >42M protein clusters (including >790k with predicted structures !). academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes

Abstract. Viruses are ubiquitous in all environments and impact host metabolism, evolution, and ecology, although our knowledge of their biodiversity is st

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Congratulations Nanami! Glad to see this work published!

Nanami Kubota@nanamikubota.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Published in Current Biology! P. aeruginosa can use its filamentous phage to inhibit competitors but high phage production is susceptible to cheater miniphage invasion. Subsequent phage tragedy of the commons can lower bacteria and phage fitness. Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5I3QW8S...

Yay Cathy!!!

Cathy Hernandez@cathyhernandez.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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).

Happy to see this paper finally out in @pnas.org! #phage #microbiology #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🧫 🔬 Gift link: www.pnas.org/eprint/YYDZ9...

Quantifying phage infectivity from characteristics of bacterial population dynamics | PNAS

A frequent goal of phage biology is to quantify how well a phage kills a population of host bacteria. Unfortunately, traditional methods to quantif...

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Mike Blazanin@mikeblazanin.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to see this new, and extensively-rewritten, version of our preprint up now! With @paulturnerlab.bsky.social we show how bacterial population dynamics (e.g. growth curves) can be used to accurately quantify bacteriophage infectivity 🦠 🧫🔬 #microbiology #VirEvol doi.org/10.1101/2023...

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

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

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

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

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 · last yr.

Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025 (3/5) 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

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

Paul Turner Lab@paulturnerlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025 (4/5) 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! 🔥

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

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

Paul Turner Lab@paulturnerlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025 (5/5) Associate Research Scientist @antanij.bsky.social is telling a story about multidimensional measurements (including high-throughput adsorption assays) of phage-bacteria interactions #microscopy 🔬

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

#phagesky

ASM@asm.org · last yr.

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...

*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...

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…

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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...