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What happens to the bystanders of a phage-host interaction? Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage infection induces the type 7 secretion system in Enterococcus f

Benjamin Adler (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint describing their application of their recently-developed high-throughput phage-host interaction discovery method to Salmonella phages. This gave them a highly resolved vie

Benjamin Adler (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint describing their application of their recently-developed high-throughput phage-host interaction discovery method to Salmonella phages. This gave them a highly resolved vie

Phages went to space, and now they're back! In a blog post, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific describe their study of phage-host interactions and evolution in microgravity (using the spaceflight env

Phages went to space, and now they're back! In a blog post, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific describe their study of phage-host interactions and evolution in microgravity (using the spaceflight env

Beatriz Osuna (UCSF) and colleagues published two new papers this week in Cell Host & Microbe: one on how Listeria phages protect their lysogenic genomes by inducing Cas9 degradation and the other detailing how a bifunctional Listeria phage

A new study by Demeng Tan (Fudan University, China), Mads Frederik Hansen (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) and colleagues have shown that a Vibrio anguillarum prophage is controlled by quorum sensing and stimulat

Beatriz Osuna (UCSF) and colleagues published two new papers this week in Cell Host & Microbe: one on how Listeria phages protect their lysogenic genomes by inducing Cas9 degradation and the other detailing how a bifunctional Listeria phage

A new study by Demeng Tan (Fudan University, China), Mads Frederik Hansen (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) and colleagues have shown that a Vibrio anguillarum prophage is controlled by quorum sensing and stimulat

Simon Roux (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues published a new preprint on diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs), which were first identified in a phage host recognition protein. They analyzed >30,000 metagenome-derived DGRs, an

Simon Roux (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues published a new preprint on diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs), which were first identified in a phage host recognition protein. They analyzed >30,000 metagenome-derived DGRs, an

Nathan Porter (University of Michigan) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phase-variable mechanisms alter phage susceptibility in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

Nathan Porter (University of Michigan) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phase-variable mechanisms alter phage susceptibility in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

Cédric Lood (KU Leuven) and colleagues published a new paper on jumbo phage-host interactions: they used an integrative omics approach (hybrid sequencing, RNAseq, and mass spectrometry) to look at Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage PA5oct and its

Cédric Lood (KU Leuven) and colleagues published a new paper on jumbo phage-host interactions: they used an integrative omics approach (hybrid sequencing, RNAseq, and mass spectrometry) to look at Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage PA5oct and its

Zachary Barth (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing their use of RNA sequencing to study how a family of viral satellites interacts with the phages they parasitize. They found that the satellites manipulate invading

Zachary Barth (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing their use of RNA sequencing to study how a family of viral satellites interacts with the phages they parasitize. They found that the satellites manipulate invading

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a sneak peek of an upcoming Cell paper from their lab: they've identified a phage-encoded "anti-activator" protein that disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing and pilus ass

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a sneak peek of an upcoming Cell paper from their lab: they've identified a phage-encoded "anti-activator" protein that disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing and pilus ass

Hannah Hampton (University of Otago) and colleagues published a review in Nature on the arms race between bacteria and phages.