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Apply for the Viruses Young Investigator Award to win 2000 Swiss Francs, an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Viruses (subject to peer review), an engraved plaque, and an invitation to speak at the Viruses

Diana Grubb (Colorado State University) and colleagues tested a phage prebiotic produced by Deerland Enzymes (Kennesaw, Georgia) in a placebo-controlled human clinical study, and found that administration of a phage cocktail alongside a bac

DuPont Animal Nutrition announced a partnership with Proteon Pharmaceuticals toward development of phage technology for poultry producers.

Marion Bichet (Monash University) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that phage uptake by Eukaryotic cell layers represents a major sink for phages during therapy. Check out Marion's accompanying Twitter thread here!

Alan Fauconnier (Culture In Vivo ASBL) and colleagues at Phages for Global Health and the Queen Astrid Military Hospital published a new perspective in Frontiers in Microbiology on the role the WHO could play in implementing phage therapy,

Andrzej Górski (Polish Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a new perspective in Future Medicine discussing phages in the fight against COVID-19. They describe research done in the last 15 years pointing to phage interference with

The next rendition of PHAVES will be a seminar with Dr. Panos Kalatzis (University of Copenhagen) on Sept 22 at 11:00 AM Eastern / 5:00 PM (GMT+2). Panos will tell us about the potential of phage therapy in aquaculture. Small group networki

The first iVoM event will be Sept. 17 at 11:00 AM GMT, under the theme "Ecology and evolution of microbial viruses". It will feature talks by: - Rob Edwards (Flinders University, Australia) - Ruth-Anne Sandaa (University of Bergen, Norway)

Phages for Global Health is doing fantastic things in the phage field — they've trained phage researchers in developing countries who've collectively gone on to win hundreds of thousands in grant money within just a couple of years! If you

Phage Oxford will take place September 9-10. Register here! The meeting will feature over 20 oral presentations by an international faculty of senior & junior researchers from across the world, covering phage molecular and structural biolo

Tiffany Luong (San Diego State University) and colleagues published a new phage therapy review in Clinical Therapeutics. They summarize the increasing body of clinical data on phage therapy (including a nice visual showing the pathogens pha

Kathy Lam (UCSF) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that M13 phage (engineered to express CRISPR-Cas9) can deplete specific strains of E. coli colonizing the mouse gut. They also used this system to create genetic deletions in

Andrew Favor (University of California, Berkeley and Nextbiotics, a California phage biotech company) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientific Reports on the new directed evolution-based phage engineering platform they've develope

Linyi Gao (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA) and colleagues published a new paper in Science describing their discovery of 29 new phage-protective gene cassettes, many of which incorporate enzymatic activities not previously i

BiomX, which customizes phages against microbiome disease-associated bacteria, has entered a collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim. Their goal is to discover microbiome-based biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease.

We're excited to announce that we've been awarded a grant from the Mozilla Foundation in partnership with Phages for Global Health (PGH), a nonprofit organization that facilitates the application of antibacterial phage technology in the dev

The Indian ‘Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy’ (SBRT) is a platform for phage researchers to share their expertise & resources. SBRT is pleased to announce a webinar on “Phage Directory: Making the world's phages accessible, ma

The next rendition of PHAVES will be a seminar with Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD on Sep 1 at 6 PM EST (GMT-4), 8 AM Sept 2 AEST. (Now at an Australia/NZ-friendly time!) Sabrina will give a short talk called TAILORing Phage Therapy for the Gut an

The organizers of VoM 2020, in collaboration with ISVM and Phage Directory, are excited to announce iVoM, a series of online lectures from prominent researchers studying viruses of microbes. These events will run monthly from September to F

The next (and last) KITP Bacteriophage Forum Zoom session will be Sept 1 at noon Pacific time: Dr. Britt Koskella (UCB) will present on "Phages as drivers of bacterial diversity" followed by a general discussion session.