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Daria Van Tyne

@dariavantyne.bsky.social

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Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

From our lab to yours, Happy Holidays!!

Holiday card with cookies shaped like microbes

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Finally, we wondered whether the strain replacement we observed at our hospital was a widespread phenomenon by examining over 15,000 publicly available VREfm genomes. We found that what is happening at UPMC is also happening all over the world. Global genomic surveillance for the win!

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

To test whether bacteriocin T8 could help VREfm colonize the intestine, we phoned a friend @joeyzacks.bsky.social. The Zackular lab performed a mouse colonization study, which showed that bacteriocin T8 provided a strong competitive advantage in the mammalian gut.

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In this study, first author @emmamills1.bsky.social took all the genomes collected by EDS-HAT between 2017 and 2022 and asked a simple question: which VREfm lineages are prevalent in the population, and does their prevalence change over time? Spoiler alert: There were big changes!

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

From our lab to yours, happy holidays!

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Silver lining of an otherwise awful week: attending #RBM2024 with these fabulous folks. A great meeting full of awesome science!

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