Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Perhaps 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). 2102
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Out 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... 0137
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Not totally sure why my son wanted a thermal camera for Christmas, but we’re now prepared to drop our first techno demo track. 0100
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I’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. 130
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Make 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... 34215
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Inspired 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. 070
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Happened to wear black today, so I got sucked into a lab Louvre heist Halloween dress up. 0292
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Just 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... 13611
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Former lab member Anna Crist, who now CRISPRizes mosquitoes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, sent me this awesome card with original artwork. 070
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Cilantro pepita hummus (10 o’clock) and white bean hummus (3 o’clock) won the popular vote in a very tight race. 010
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Megan 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. 🤞 0110
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This year's lab photo. Powerful group of scientists. 040
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 15/05/2025New 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... 0122
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 05/03/2025New 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/... 01911
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Interesting 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.” 010
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 26/12/2024My son’s talented partner knitted me an amazing worm scarf (pen for scale). 1360
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I am not joking when I say that our lab is literally at the left end of this rainbow. Amazing. 3160
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Research office seed funding programs. (With apologies to @odedrechavi.bsky.social) 000
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Hopping on the paper title band wagon. Right on target. 020
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Mini therapy horse at Gerontological Society of America meeting #gsa2024 poster session. Pretty unique, but no substitute for the lack of coffee 😝. 080
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 13/11/2024In 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. 060
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Now 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!). 160
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 24/08/2024Also, @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. 290
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 24/08/2024Tie 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. 140
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 13/04/2024Latest 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... 120
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 10/03/2024Enjoyed a great #tagc24 with a bunch of lab folks, past and present. Everyone appreciated the breadth of genetics represented. Very well organized and supported. 061
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 07/03/2024We 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. 156
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 06/03/2024On the way to #tagc24. Many folks from my lab, old and new, presenting great (and varied) work. 071
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 02/03/2024I 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” 🌶️🥵😅 060
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2023Got to see the fastest mile in 24 years. Hayward Field magic. 040
Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2023Our 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... 0196