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I am an enthusiastic beginner of phage research and a PhD holder in virus immunodiagnostics. Since phage research is quite new in my country, Kenya, I am looking for mentorship from a senior phage researcher and placement in an active phage

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has awarded $15 Million to 33 organizations studying how to improve outcomes for cystic fibrosis patients battling infections, and three are phage therapy-based approaches! One is for research into phages that

Patrick de Jonge (Utrecht University, Netherlands) and colleagues published a new paper in iScience on AdsorpSeq, a new method for rapidly linking phages with hosts, which is based on sequencing phages physicially bound to host cell envelop

Cyclic-oligonucleotide-based anti-phage signalling systems (CBASS) share ancestry with an innate immune pathway in animals. Adi Millman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Microbiology on C

Clay Crippen (University of Georgia) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing that phages can lead multidrug resistant Acinetobacter isolates to release intact antimicrobial resistance determinants in vitro.

Moran Meir (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and colleagues published a new paper in Science Advances showing that competition between social cheater viruses is driven by mechanistically different cheating strategies.

Mpho Defney Maje (North-West University, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper on pathogenic, antibiotic-resistant Vibrio species found in drinking water, along with their isolation of two lytic phages that could be exploited f

A new episode of The Economist podcast investigated how viruses shape the world through interviews with Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR and Steffanie Strathdee on phage therapy.

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team (IBRT, one of 3 undergraduate phage research programs in sub-Saharan Africa) has started recruiting incoming clinical undergrads at the University of Ibadan for its SEA-PHAGES phage research program.

Phage Directory is exploring a new opportunity related to phage sharing, and we're looking to hear from the phage community! Phage biotech companies are seeking to expand their phage collections (for therapeutics and biocontrol), and we're

Save the date for PHAVES, which continues Sep 1 at 6 PM EST (GMT-4), 8 AM Sept 2 AEST. (Welcome Australia and NZ! We moved the time for this one, so you won't be asleep!) Dr. Sabrina Green of Baylor College of Medicine and BCM TAILOR Labs w

The 2nd Hanson Wade Bacteriophage Therapy Summit takes place (virtually) Aug 27-28, and registration is open! On the Thursday afternoon of the conference, we'll present our vision of how to use technology to scale up phage therapy.

The KITP Bacteriophage Forum continues (virtually) Aug 25 at noon Pacific: Luciano Marrafini (Rockefeller/HHMI) and Paul Turner (Yale) will speak. Register here.

The Pathogens journal has opened a Special Issue about "host-pathogens interactions and phage therapy". — Gabriel Almeida

Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems on their development of a new technology platform that enables on-demand phage production through computationally identifying

Menglu Li (Anhui University, China) and colleagues published a new paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics describing PredPHI (Predicting Phage-Host Interactions), a new deep learning-based tool for predic

Aurélie Fluckiger (Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, France) and colleagues published a new paper in Science showing cross-reactivity between tumor antigens and the tape measure protein encoded by an Enterococcus hirae prophage. Administering e

US phage therapy company Adaptive Phage Therapeutics has received a $9.8-million Department of Defense Award to develop phage-based vaccine candidates against SARS-CoV-2.

The Austrian phage therapy company PhagoMed has been selected as a Gold Track company (one of 5) by EIT Health, the premier biotech acceleration program in Europe.

VoM 2020 Organizers, ISVM, Phage Directory Many of us were excited about Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2020, the conference that had been set to take place this summer in Portugal. In collaboration with the International Society for Viruses of