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Phage Directory The next rendition of PHAVES will be an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens on August 18 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 4:00 PM UK (GMT+1). Evelien will answer your questions about phage taxonomy, viromics, an

Hanson Wade The 2nd Hanson Wade Bacteriophage Therapy Summit takes place (virtually) Aug 27-28, and registration is open! We (Jessica and Jan, Phage Directory) are excited to be participating in a panel discussion/workshop alongside Dr. Au

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

Dr. Austen Terwilliger, Director of Operations at Baylor College of Medicine's TAILOR Service Center, which produces therapeutic phages for compassionate use cases, will give a talk on ASM-TMC MicroTalks on Aug. 17 at 3:15 PM Central (GMT-5

Carmen Gu Liu (TAILΦR, Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio describing phage-antibiotic synography, a comprehensive method of assessing the effects of phage-antibiotic combinations. They saw that phages c

Phage genomes are usually identified based on sequence similarity to genomes already in databases. Kimmo Sirén (The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new preprint showing rapid discovery of novel prophage

Sylwia Bloch (Polish Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a new review in Plasmid on phage-encoded small non-coding RNA molecules. Could they play a role similar to that of microRNAs of eukaryotic viruses?

The Mayo Clinic has been in the news lately as a major US medical institution making serious investments into phage therapy. Watch this 5-min video about how the Mayo Clinic treated its first patient, John Haverty, with phages.

Hello Everyone ! I'm in need of the MS2 bacteriophage and its host E. coli strain in India. Other than ATCC, I find no suppliers in India. Could anyone please share them or direct me to a supplier in India please? Thanks much ! drshankarman

Kavli Institute, UC Santa Barbara The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara is hosting a series of phage talks (particularly from the eco-evolutionary perspective) called Bacteriophage Forum. The dates are: August 11,

Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy (SBRT) The Indian Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy (SBRT) is a platform where researchers working on phages and their applications share expertise & resources. SBRT is pleased to

Phage Directory Thanks to all who attended PHAVES 4 this week! We had a great turnout! Next up will be an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens on August 18 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 4:00 PM UK (GMT+1). Evelien will answe

The Mayo Clinic has invested $1.75 million in Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, which will allow APT to initiate a clinical trial to address periprosthetic joint infections (an estimated commercial market of $900 million per year). The trial is

Rijul Kochhar (MIT) published a new article on the pre-d’Hérelle history of phages, and the many meanings of phages today in the space of this ‘pre-discovery’. It’s a story of science, religion and late 19th century colonial healthcare with

Jimmy Trinh (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications looking at lambda phage infecting single host cells using live-cell and in-situ fluorescence imaging. They found that different viral DNAs esta

Holger Loessner (Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics on the use of kinetic fingerprinting to explore the dynamics of specific phage-host pairs, with the goal of designing effective phage thera

Karim Abdelkader (Ghent University) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing that an Acinetobacter baumannii phage lysin has a turgor pressure-dependent intrinsic antibacterial activity and can

Vito Adrian Cantu (San Diego State University) and colleagues published a new preprint on Phage Artificial Neural Networks (PhANNs), a fast and accurate machine learning tool and web server that can classify phage proteins into ten major cl

Huijun Geng (Dalian University of Technology, China) and colleagues published a paper looking into phage therapy as a treatment for Staphylococcus aureus-induced mastitis using a mouse model. Mice with induced mastitis showed improved masti

Martin Inyimili I have been working on phages from 2018. I now have several phages which I need to extract their DNA and sequence on the nanopore sequencer. Can someone help me on how to do this especially sequencing several samples at once