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Hanzada Nour El-Din (National Research Council Canada) and colleagues published a new paper on isolation and characterization of phages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients, showing four phages with broad host range

The BASEL collection of E. coli phages has been expanded — 36 new ones have been added! These phages were deeply characterized genomically and phenotypically, from receptors to antiviral defense sensitivity to host range. Looking at the res

Mohammad Hashem Yousefi (KU Leuven) and colleagues have isolated and characterized a novel Salmonella Typhimurium phage called Arash, a novel species in the novel ‘Arashvirus’ genus, from hospital wastewater.

Tomoyoshi Kaneko (Waseda University, Tokyo) and colleagues isolated 28 phages infecting E. coli and evaluated factors like lysis activity, adsorption rate and burst size. They found that variation in lysis onset time and duration was higher

The Norwegian College of Fishery Science is hiring a postdoc to lead phage isolation efforts, perform imaging/sequencing/genome analysis, create functional assays, describe novel marine psychrophilic phages and clinically relevant phages, p

A new Canadian phage CRO, Qeen Bio is offering a variety of services including phage characterization, cell banking, fermentation, downstream processing, formulation, lab services for phage clinical trials, and regulatory consulting for pha

A new paper published in Microbiology Spectrum by Magdalena Unterer (Helmholtz Centre Munich) describes a high-throughput method for identifying and characterizing phages for phage therapy, revealing cell-to-cell variations in phage kinetic

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Facilities (India) are seeking an MSc final-year student for a 6-month project on the isolation and characterization of phages from environmental samples. The position is open only for Indian nationals.

A new paper by Pablo Quirós (Universitat de Barcelona) and colleagues published in The ISME Journal reports the isolation of the first phage infecting some Nitrosomonas species. This polyvalent virulent phage (named ΦNF-1) infected Nitrosom

In this study, a novel Pseudomonas phage, vB_PaeS_VL1 (VL1), was isolated from urban sewage. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that VL1 is a novel species in the genus Litunavirus of subfamily Migulavirinae. The VL1 is a virulent phage as no g

Rima Fanaei Pirlar et al. published a new paper in Pharmaceutics, where they characterized a new phage, CUB19, which shows potent antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

Paper: Isolation and characterization of Brochothrix phage ADU4.

Paper: Characterization and genomic analysis of a new phage infecting Helicobacter pylori.

Postdoc to isolate and characterize phages for targeted preclinical development.

Paper: Isolation and characterization of novel lytic phages to combat multidrug-resistant E. coli and Salmonella spp. — Contributed by Ivy Mutai (Phage Team Kenya and Uganda)

Research Specialist to study viral adaptation using the phage phiX174 and characterize novel phages from honey bees at University of Idaho

Research Specialist to isolate and characterise Actinobacteriophages at The University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Twitter call-out from Michael Laub; Question for phage tweeps: does EOP stand for 'efficiency of plating' or 'efficiency of plaquing'? I've seen both in the literature. Am hoping this one doesn't stoke emotions comparable to the argument ab

Hayley Nordstrom (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) and colleagues published a preprint showing genomic and functional characterization of P. aeruginosa-targeting phages isolated from hospital wastewater. They used a panel of cli

Eleanor Townsend (University of Warwick) and colleagues published a new paper in PHAGE describing the isolation and characterization of 30 novel, genetically diverse Klebsiella phages.