🔴 New preprint 🔴 This one is the first with someone from my lab as an author! We used previously identified metabolic rules to predict microbial community assembly along a temperature gradient (1/12). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Applications are now open for the GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 US for students in the later stages of their PhD who are conducting evolutionary biology research. Apply by October 2! Evolution Students asngrads evolutionsociety.org/content/societ…

The latest work from our lab where we conduct the largest experimental validation of gut phages to date! This included >2000 anaerobic incubations, >900 viral DNA extractions, and >400 genomes seq. This work was led by our PhD grad Sofia Dahlman biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Can the simplest living things coexist 🏘️ in the face of competition? We found that bacterial viruses (phages) could easily form diverse communities, even though they shared the same resource 🍝 (an isogenic host population) (1/7) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Throughout his career, Paul Turner remembers to hold onto the joy and impact of science—a reminder that not only guides his own work, but also the students he mentors. Read the Spotlight: asm.social/1qU

What did the large virus say to the little virus? Get lost, you CHEAT!! We are enjoying a #QBioBreakfast chalk talk by Asher Leeks from Paul Turner Lab on viral cheats in data from real patient samples.

Turner Lab postdocs rocking it today!! Cathy Hernandez and Jordan Lewis gave Flash talks at Yale EEB Postdoc Symposium. Asher Leeks gave a chalk talk at Yale QBio #QBioBreakfast

Evening hour at Bacteria vs Phage: The Main Event Princeton University Center for Theoretical Science Paul Turner Lab Cathy Hernandez Albert Vill Asher Leeks Nora Pyenson Nicole Marino

Announcing the Social Lives of Viruses 2024! Do you study social evolution in viruses? Do you want to? Join us in Puerto Rico this June for a 50-person meeting dedicated to viral sociality. All costs covered. Apply here: forms.gle/sHTEcHJjryDhHq… #LoveVirology #SocialViruses

Happy to share our new work studying viral diversity, ecology, & evolution over long-time scales. We track 1.3 million viral genomes over 20 yrs to study viral interactions, ecological dynamics, & evolutionary trajectories. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Woohoo, our paper on the discovery of 65 new phages dependent on conjugative plasmids is published in it's final form today in Nature Communications ! Here follows a thread (1/ ) link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Thank you to all who attended and participated in our annual #YaleClimateDay event last week! We were happy to host six speakers from outside of Yale, as well as a poster session and photo contest with submissions from our graduate students and a few post-doctoral associates.

Thank you Max Planck Society for this opportunity to start my first research group!! I am recruiting at the MSc, PhD, and student assistant levels. More info on how to join us coming very soon ☺️🦠

The Social Microbiome Group is coming to MPI-EVA Leipzig and we are recruiting at multiple levels! You will work closely with me and Dr. Jenny Tung Jenny Tung. Apply by Sep 1 with a cover letter and CV. Please share 🔁

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 🧵

Super excited to share my postdoc work on Monday at #Evol2024! Come hear about the role of a prophage in the thermal eco evo of a strain I collected in the Long Island Sound 🔥🧫🌊

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

Microscopic Phage Adsorption Assay: High-throughput quantification of virus particle attachment to host bacterial cells biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

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…

Thrilled to share this new preprint with Corlett Wolfe Wood!! We studied how microbes evolve in the wild using classy common garden and population genetics 1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…