Paul Turner Lab

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

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!

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 🔬

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! 🔥

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

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

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!

*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

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.

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

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/...

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...

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

Tailed and Bursting with joy!

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..

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...

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...