📣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

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-...

Congratulations Nanami! Glad to see this work published!

Yay Cathy!!!

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

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 :).

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

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

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

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

*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...

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...

(1/3) extension *really* useful in research after a long time! (possibly after Google Scholar Button) AI outline may come in handy at some point (my mind's jury is out on that), but... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/googl...

Latest paper drop from Yale Phage Center @paulturnerlab.bsky.social

Very cool thread!

Microscopic phage adsorption assay: High-throughput quantification of virus particle attachment to host bacterial cells. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2410905121 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39700139/

Please join us in welcoming UBC-Zoology’s newest Assistant Professor: Asher Leeks! @asherleeks.bsky.social Today is Asher’s first day as an Assistant Professor of Evolution in the Department of Zoology and the @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca Welcome Asher! 🙌🏽 asherleeks.com

Preprint out! Bacteria w/ hyper-replicative filamentous phage lead to overnight emergence of cheater phages. Bacteria w/ both phages can outcompete wildtype, then rapidly lose phage via a phage Tragedy of the Commons @shellyscrib.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Super cool work modernizing phage biology! #phagesky 💧🔬🦠

My mehndi (henna tattoo) at close cousin's wedding. I asked the tattoo-artist to draw the podovirus where the genome is cousin's wedding logo. #phagesky

1/11 - With Karin Mitosch and Clément Potel + colleagues in Savitski lab and @typaslab.bsky.social @embl.org, I’m very happy to share our discovery of a hyper-promiscuous phage protein kinase (T7K) which broadly deactivates bacterial defenses! 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Microscopic phage adsorption assay: High-throughput quantification of virus particle attachment to host bacterial cells "..highly quantitative, model-free readouts at single-virus resolution, helping to uncover single-virus phenomena missed by traditional measurements"

We 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...

Excited to share our work on broadly effective phage-antibiotic cocktails. We report 4 cocktails that each work against 96% of 153 antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas isolates. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Kevin Kim @KevinMinyo6651

Phenotypic buffet for phages presented by a clonal population of bacteria 🦠 🧫 Check out this hot paper from my labmates 🤩 The thread presents an excellent... not a tweetorial. Do we call it SKYnopsis here? #phagesky #microsky

I love this study, it started as a way to identify mutations involved in coevolution - a fundamental evolutionary question - and is now contributing to growing interest for predicting phage-bacteria interactions to improve phage therapy. Congrats to the team!

Excited to share our latest, "Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes." @plos.bsky.social We developed a cell-labeling strategy using far-red dyes to image dense microbial communities (where fluorescent proteins often do not work well) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Using filamentous phages as drug-cargo carriers. Cool cool cool. #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh look! @asm.org is here now 🧪🧫

Working on phage research? Dr. Catherine Hernandez and I are co-convening the "Phage Ecology: From Prophage Decision Making to Ecosystem Modulation" in-depth symposium at ASM Microbe 2025 and we want YOU to be part of it! Abstract submission is now open! More info below 🧪🦠🔬 #Phagesky #Microsky

Metabolites from intact phage-infected Synechococcus chemotactically attract heterotrophic marine bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.