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Patrick Phillips

@patrickphillips.bsky.social
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Geneticist at University of Oregon @uoregon. Worms, C. elegans, aging, evolution, genetics, genomics, complex traits. Former provost and interim president. Lab: pages.uoregon.edu/pphil GScholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=J…

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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Perhaps the most unusual book in my library. Could also be used as a useful tool to bonk young whippersnappers on the head when they don’t realize how great they have it (the thing is massive).
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Out in print in Geroscience by @rosealsaadi.bsky.social: Pro‑longevity compounds extend Caenorhabditis elegans male lifespan and reproductive healthspan. Most interventions that help hermaphrodites also improve male lifespan, not necessarily reproductive heathspan. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Not totally sure why my son wanted a thermal camera for Christmas, but we’re now prepared to drop our first techno demo track.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I’ve definitely seen lines at our famous campus Prince Puckler’s Ice Cream, but never a happy mob. That’s apparently what a perfect fall Saturday in Eugene following a Friday night football win brings.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Make males live more than 400% longer and prevent sexual disfunction late in life?! We're down with it. Our latest preprint: Disruption of the insulin signaling pathway in C. elegans dramatically increases male longevity and enhances reproductive health late in life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Inspired by my recent workshop visit in Sicily, the lab had an Italian food potluck during lab meeting. I made pumpkin stuffed gnocchi in a nutmeg sage cream sauce, but we have no kitchen. So I finished the gnocchi in an electric tea kettle. Worked ok.
Bowl of gnocchi in cream sauce next to a tea kettle.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happened to wear black today, so I got sucked into a lab Louvre heist Halloween dress up.
Picture of five people wearing berets and costume jewelry.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Just out in press in eLife, a cool and brilliant piece of work by @amywebster.bsky.social: Gene expression variation across genetically identical individuals predicts reproductive traits. elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Former lab member Anna Crist, who now CRISPRizes mosquitoes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, sent me this awesome card with original artwork.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Cilantro pepita hummus (10 o’clock) and white bean hummus (3 o’clock) won the popular vote in a very tight race.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Meanwhile, lab humus competition 2025
Hummus and veggies displayed on a table.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Megan Moerdyk-Schauwecker did a terrific job sharing an update on our library based transgenesis approaches at #worm25. We have a bunch of stuff in the pipeline that will hopefully take this to the next level of impact for the community. 🤞
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This year's lab photo. Powerful group of scientists.
Group photo of students and staff in Patrick Phillips' lab at the University of Oregon.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New preprint. This is a fun one. Eat your broccoli, but not too much! The broccoli derivative sulforaphane extends lifespan by slowing the transcriptional aging clock www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Graph showing that the broccoli derivative sulforaphane makes the transcriptome of treated individuals look "younger" than untreated controls.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New paper early online at GBE: Pervasive conservation of intron number and other genetic elements revealed by a chromosome-level genome assembly of the hyper-polymorphic nematode Caenorhabditis brenneri. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Artistic image of male and female Caenorhabditis briggsae nematodes against a backdrop of multi-species genome alignments.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Interesting description of France in the 1880’s by Debora Silverman (1989): “Although the liberals assumed that the ballot was a tool of responsible citizenship, they confronted the reality that it could be pressed into the service of anti-parliamentarism.”
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My son’s talented partner knitted me an amazing worm scarf (pen for scale).
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I am not joking when I say that our lab is literally at the left end of this rainbow. Amazing.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Research office seed funding programs. (With apologies to @odedrechavi.bsky.social)
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hopping on the paper title band wagon. Right on target.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Mini therapy horse at Gerontological Society of America meeting #gsa2024 poster session. Pretty unique, but no substitute for the lack of coffee 😝.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In addition to research in evolutionary genetics and the biology of aging, I like to cook. Here’s some gnocchi in truffle cream sauce that I learned in Italy. The major barrier to making gnocchi is having a potato ricer. It’s pretty easy after that.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Now for the hard hitting science you have been waiting for: Complex inter-species interactions evolved under long term domestication. I.e., Luna's first encounter with chickens (sound up!).
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Also, @zachcst.bsky.social organized an “awkward family photo” outing as a surprise gift for me (and the universe) a few weeks ago. Stunning barely captures it.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Tie dye and Korean food lunch with homemade tie dye shirts in celebration of @zachcst.bsky.social last day in the lab before he ships off to change the face of synthetic biology in the Shendure lab at UW.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Latest paper from the Caenorhabditis Intervention Testing Program: The coupling between healthspan and lifespan in Caenorhabditis depends on complex interactions between compound intervention and genetic background www.aging-us.com/article/2057...
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
Enjoyed a great #tagc24 with a bunch of lab folks, past and present. Everyone appreciated the breadth of genetics represented. Very well organized and supported.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
We will be advertising multiple postdoc and research assistant positions in a new effort on synthetic biology and aging in the coming months. I'm attaching a "pre-application" note in case folks want to hear more about what we have planned, especially if you want to talk to me at #TAGC24.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
On the way to #tagc24. Many folks from my lab, old and new, presenting great (and varied) work.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
I treated the lab to opening of Dune 2 on Thursday and then they hosted a Hot Ones competition for the institute on Friday. Trying to kill me is not an appropriate “Thank you” 🌶️🥵😅
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Got to see the fastest mile in 24 years. Hayward Field magic.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Our latest preprint is a super-cool high tech microfluidic worm-rearing marvel: The Egg-Counter: A novel microfluidic platform for characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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