Comparison of bacterial suppression by phage cocktails, dual-receptor generalists, and coevolutionarily trained phages doi.org/10.1111/eva.13… by Borin et al Justin Meyer Josh Borin #coevolution #generalist #phage #cocktail #training #resistance

TWO METRIC TONS OF OXYTETRACYCLINE !! That’s enough to properly treat a full grown adult human each day for 2,740 years Story in ⁦The Guardian⁩ “Salmon company Tassal in Tasmania tried to block release of report on antibiotic use, documents show” theguardian.com/australia-news…

Sonya Neal is hiring a staff research associate! If you want to be part of an inclusive lab doing awesome science🧪🧬, consider applying. Please share this widely! #AcademicChatter #UCSD employment.ucsd.edu/staff-research…

Ever seen a Flound trying to surf? Now you have. 🔗: instagram.com/reel/CrQQqSUOv…

Last Friday was a blur! Huge thanks to Justin Meyer, my committee, and my amazing colleagues and friends for their unwavering support. PhDone! 🥳🥳🥳

📢New review alert 📢 Developing Phage Therapy That Overcomes the Evolution of Bacterial Resistance (proof posted online) My first piece of publication from Paul Turner Lab Yale QBio Yale Phage Center 🎉🥳 doi.org/10.1146/annure…

Some jumbo #phages have evolved a protein shell that encloses their replicating genome. Eray Enustun, Ph.D. etal have used proximity labeling to identify a ‘phage nucleus protein interaction network’, including 6 uncharacterized nuclear shell-associated proteins buff.ly/43EEeGV

Congrats, Infectious Disease Fellow Mike Doud on an incredible paper quantifying the fitness landscape underlying bacteriophage lambda speciation. Also congrats to Animesh Gupta and several talented coauthors who made important contributions. 🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

.Eray Enustun, Ph.D. (UCSD BioSciences) and colleagues have used proximity labelling and localization mapping to systematically map out the protein interaction network of the ‘#phage nucleus’ made by jumbo phages. buff.ly/3Pci3S8

Today in Science Magazine: Rather than a slow, gradual process as Darwin envisioned, biologists can now see how evolutionary changes unfold on much more accelerated timescales. Justin Meyer Josh Borin UMD Science today.ucsd.edu/story/bacteria…

Our newest paper was published today, a capstone to our work on gain-of-function evolution, phage-bacterial interaction network formation, and microbial diversification.

Amazing work Science Magazine from UCSD BioSciences Josh Borin Josh Borin Justin Meyer lab In just 21 days of laboratory coevolution, Escherichia coli and bacteriophage Φ21 coevolve and diversify to form elaborate cross-infection networks. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Niche theory does not explain how species evolve to exploit unique niches. Using experimental and computational approaches, Doud et al. show that resource competition can deform fitness landscapes, promoting ecological speciation. Justin Meyer nature.com/articles/s4146…

New bioRxiv on optimizing experiments to infer multiphasic decay of infectious viruses, led by Jeremy Seurat & Justin Meyer team, we leverage synthetic sims to design, implement and identify a hidden majority of rapidly decaying phage biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please share! Here's our latest preprint on the university-wide mentorship program @bummp_ucsd, highlighting its profound impact on biology students from all backgrounds. In 4 years, this pioneering initiative has served over 1,350 mentees!!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats Krista Gerbino on your first 1st-authored paper. Krista found that our molecular model for how lambda evolves to use new receptors applies to phi21 too! 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Many (belated) thanks to the organizers and everyone at Viruses of Microbes 2024 for rekindling my stoke for phages and providing an excuse to finally visit Australia and dive the GBR

I am looking for a post-doc to work on our ⁦MBIE Science⁩ project on #phages for #biocontrol #microbiology #genomics #genetics ⁦Microbiology and Immunology Otago⁩ ⁦University of Otago⁩ pls repost otago.taleo.net/careersection/…