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Kate Harding (University of Otago) and colleagues published a new paper on genome-wide identification of bacterial genes for nucleus-forming phage infection, showing flagella and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis genes are major contributors

Minyoung Kevin Kim (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new paper on designing effective phage-antibiotic cocktails against bacterial infections, showing that combining phages from different "complementarity groups" targeting di

The Bramkamp Lab at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel is hiring a postdoc to molecular mechanisms of bacterial dynamin-mediated phage resistance. The Bramkamp lab focuses on prokaryotic cell organization, using advanced microscopy

Peiying Ho and colleagues from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology screened the PA14NR transposon mutant library and identified key genes involved in P. aeruginosa phage resistance. They found 78 mutants capable of thrivi

Emma Spencer (University of Idaho) and colleagues published a new preprint on phages of honeybee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae. They looked at resistance evolution and how phage resistant isolates developed reduced pathogenicity — and phage

Hiba Baaziz (Virginia Tech) and colleagues showed that subtle changes in the lysis-lysogeny decision of Salmonella phage P22 can dramatically impact the emergence of phage resistance.

Agnès Oromí-Bosch and colleagues published a new report on phage resistance-related challenges associated with phage therapy. They review two main strategies for mitigating resistance in phage therapy: 1) smartly identify/design the phages

Capsules and their traits affect phage susceptibility and plasmid conjugation efficiency, as per a preprint by Matthieu Haudiquet et al. They show that capsule swaps invert phage susceptibility and affect conjugation efficiency, with implic

Olaya Rendueles and colleagues have described how fitness costs drive competition between lysogenic and sensitive bacteria by co-cultivating a phage-sensitive strain and a polylysogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae strain under different phage pre

Oliver Charity (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Genomics on how increased phage resistance through lysogenic conversion accompanies emergence of a Salmonella Typhimurium pandemic strain.

The Department of Plant & Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of phage-bacterial interactions. The Postdoctoral Scholar will conduct laboratory research as part of Dr. Kim

Postdoc at University of Exeter to conduct high-throughput experiments on a large collection of clinical isolates of pathogenic bacterial species, to measure resistance/sensitivity across a range of phages and other mobile genetic elements,

Paper: Reversible bacteriophage resistance by shedding the bacterial cell wall.

Paper: PhREEPred: Phage Resistance Emergence Prediction web to foresee encapsulated bacterial escape from phage cocktail treatment

Pre-print: An expanding arsenal of immune systems that protect bacteria from phages.

Paper: Genome-driven elucidation of phage-host interplay and impact of phage resistance evolution on bacterial fitness

Paper: The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella.

Paper: Spontaneous phage resistance in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli.

Preprint: Phage resistance accompanies reduced fitness of uropathogenic E. coli in the urinary environment

Selection for phage resistance reduces virulence of Shigella flexneri.