Patrick Phillips
@patrickphillips.bsky.social
Geneticist at University of Oregon @uoregon. Worms, C. elegans, aging, evolution, genetics, genomics, complex traits. Former provost and interim president. Lab: https://pages.uoregon.edu/pphil/ GScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JbH6mVkAAA
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...
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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...
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.
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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.
Happened to wear black today, so I got sucked into a lab Louvre heist Halloween dress up.
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Happened to wear black today, so I got sucked into a lab Louvre heist Halloween dress up.
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...
September 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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...
Former lab member Anna Crist, who now CRISPRizes mosquitoes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, sent me this awesome card with original artwork.
July 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Former lab member Anna Crist, who now CRISPRizes mosquitoes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, sent me this awesome card with original artwork.
Cilantro pepita hummus (10 o’clock) and white bean hummus (3 o’clock) won the popular vote in a very tight race.
July 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Cilantro pepita hummus (10 o’clock) and white bean hummus (3 o’clock) won the popular vote in a very tight race.
Meanwhile, lab humus competition 2025
July 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Meanwhile, lab humus competition 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. 🤞
June 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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. 🤞
This year's lab photo. Powerful group of scientists.
May 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This year's lab photo. Powerful group of scientists.
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...
May 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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...
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/...
March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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/...
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.”
January 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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.”
My son’s talented partner knitted me an amazing worm scarf (pen for scale).
December 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM
My son’s talented partner knitted me an amazing worm scarf (pen for scale).
I am not joking when I say that our lab is literally at the left end of this rainbow. Amazing.
November 26, 2024 at 12:13 AM
I am not joking when I say that our lab is literally at the left end of this rainbow. Amazing.
Research office seed funding programs. (With apologies to @odedrechavi.bsky.social)
November 25, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Research office seed funding programs. (With apologies to @odedrechavi.bsky.social)
Hopping on the paper title band wagon. Right on target.
November 22, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Hopping on the paper title band wagon. Right on target.
Mini therapy horse at Gerontological Society of America meeting #gsa2024 poster session. Pretty unique, but no substitute for the lack of coffee 😝.
November 14, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Mini therapy horse at Gerontological Society of America meeting #gsa2024 poster session. Pretty unique, but no substitute for the lack of coffee 😝.
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.
November 13, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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.
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!).
October 22, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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!).
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.
August 24, 2024 at 2:49 AM
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.
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.
August 24, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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.
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...
April 13, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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...
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.
March 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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.
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.
March 7, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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.