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Alexander Perfilyev (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new preprint on discovering lytic phages in bacterial genomes, showing over 100,000 complete lytic phage genomes in bacterial assemblies, challenging assumptions and

Make the right ones glow! Eleanor Rand (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues developed a new targeted Phage Discovery method based on using multiple fluorescent markers, allowing for co-culture with multiple hosts and visualization of pha

Carus Animal Health, an animal health company in Stevenage, UK is hiring a Microbiology Laboratory Scientist to identify and characterize viruses, particularly phages, for pet health applications. The role involves working with microorganis

Archana Anand has announced that the BRaVE Phage Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring postdocs and research assistants. The team is particularly interested in candidates with a passion for viruses, wastewater research,

Archana Anand has announced that the BRaVE Phage Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring postdocs and research assistants. The team is particularly interested in candidates with a passion for viruses, wastewater research,

Always great to find phage researchers in countries we haven’t had representation from before! Tasnime Abdou Ahmad (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) and colleagues isolated and characterized a novel E. phage, AUBRB02. They discuss po

University of Greifswald, Germany is hiring a research assistant to work on the ‘UtiliPhage’ project, establishing protocols for phage isolation, purify phages, determine immunogenicity and more.

Ritu Arora (University of Delhi) and colleagues isolated 100+ mycobacteriophages over the last two years, and here announce five genomes from different clusters, infecting M. tuberculosis and M. fortuitum.

Antonia Sagona (University of Warwick, UK) is seeking a PhD student to study phage isolation and characterization for clinical applications.

A postdoc position is available at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Czech Republic to study freshwater bacteria and their phages using cultivation, comparative genomics, metagenomics and experimental approaches.

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is hiring a phage researcher to study phage mechanisms in MDR ESKAPE pathogens for wound infection countermeasure development in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Are you a phage enthusiast looking to isolate your own phage? Check out this beginner-friendly guide by Raphael Hans Lwesya for tips and tricks!

Have you succeeded or failed to isolate Mycobacterium abscessus phages? We are setting up a new lab in Florida and looking for tips —Johan Wikström

Dear Phage Family, I have trouble isolating Listeria phages from environmental samples. I used the method from the article named 'Silage Collected from Dairy Farms Harbors an Abundance of Listeriaphages with Considerable Host Range and Gen

Paper: Isolation and characterization of Brochothrix phage ADU4.

Research support technician in Santander, Spain: Isolation of phages active against pathogens, synthesis and characterization of liposomes and solid-lipid nanoparticles, combination of phages with antibacterials.

Protocol: An optimized and high yielding protocol for isolation and amplification of phages against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

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Nikoline Olsen and colleagues at Aarhus University published a preprint on a new high throughput screening method (HITS) for isolating distinct phages at a large scale against multiple hosts.

Nikoline Olsen and colleagues at Aarhus University published a preprint on a new high throughput screening method (HITS) for isolating distinct phages at a large scale against multiple hosts.