Paul Turner Lab
@paulturnerlab.bsky.social
Experimental evolution of viruses for basic science and evolutionary medicine at Yale Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Tweeting papers & news from our group. Acct managed by lab members.
Turner Lab Graduate Student @noahhoupt.bsky.social is giving a poster today on how genetic diversity in chronic P. aeruginosa infections poses challenges for phage therapy. Check out his poster in the AEM area (#737 at 3-4PM).
Research Scientist from our lab @antanij.bsky.social presenting TODAY at 10.45 am in the Mechanism Discovery Hub (area near posters in the exhibit halls). #ASMicrobe
Jyot Antani@antanij.bsky.social · 3mo agoLooking 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
Come see my former postdoc @cathyhernandez.bsky.social’s presentation on how prophages shape thermal performance in marine bacteria (room 147AB at 12:15PM). Cathy is now a professor at the University of South Carolina and is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027!
The great Paul Turner on phage therapy and evolution at #ASMicrobe. Someday I will get him on #MattersMicrobial! I’ll keep trying. @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
Day 1 of @asm.org #ASMmicrobe2026 was great! Wonderful reconnecting with the Microbiology community, including fellow @hypothesisfund.bsky.social family members @laahrs.bsky.social & @paulturnerlab.bsky.social!
Three amazing sets of plenaries this week @asm.org's Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) Scientific Unit in Washington, DC: @noahfierer.bsky.social, Janet Jansson, @paulturnerlab.bsky.social, @benwolfe.bsky.social, @karenlloyd.bsky.social, Dianne Newman
The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026! This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution. To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca @sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky
Our perspective on measuring individual virus traits, led by staff scientist @antanij.bsky.social #phagesky #microsky
Jyot Antani@antanij.bsky.social · 4mo ago@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
And that’s a wrap for #AMR2026 The best one yet, and no worm holes open by bringing to Paul Turners together across continents! @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
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Next one in a storm of preprints from our lab's amazing scientists.. Recent-ex-postdoc, #newPI @cathyhernandez.bsky.social studied thermal ecology of marine bacteria isolated near New Haven. Turns out, response of this bacterium to temperatures is shaped by prophages! #phagesky #microsky
Cathy Hernandez@cathyhernandez.bsky.social · 6mo agoExcited 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...
How does population density affect evolutionary trajectory? Microbes construct their own niche which in turn reshapes their evolution. Preprint drop from grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social whose evolution experiments featured blue/white colonies, 1000 generations, a lab move, and much more!
Noah Houpt@noahhoupt.bsky.social · 6mo agoInterested 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)
Turner Lab representation at #ASMicrobe #ASMicrobe2025 (1/5) Postbac Matthew Davidson will present a poster about phage Woody 🪵 #newPhageAlert Matthew will be applying for grad school soon!
*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...
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...
Latest paper drop from Yale Phage Center @paulturnerlab.bsky.social
INCATE@incate.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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.
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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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Jyot Antani@antanij.bsky.social · 2y agoWe developed a microscopy-based technique🔬 to measure attachment of viruses #phages to host cells. 🦠 The paper was posted online today: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #phagesky #microsky
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 · 2y agoFormer @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/...
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..
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...
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