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Kaitlyn Kortright (Yale School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS showing their use of INSeq screening to rapidly identify candidate phage receptors. They successfully identified receptors for 4 well-characterized pha

Athina Zampara (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientific Reports on the use of phage receptor binding proteins to enable endolysins ("Innolysins") to kill Gram-negative bacteria.

Oluwafolajimi Adesanya and colleagues, who make up a new team of phage researchers from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, just published their first review paper on phage therapy. The review also includes a unique perspective on phage th

Intralytix is recruiting patients for its Crohn's disease clinical trial out of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. They will be evaluating patient stool samples for presence of adherent invasive E. coli (AIEC), and if positive, patients will

Phage Directory Our next PHAVES event will be Tuesday, July 21 at 11 AM Eastern, 5 PM CEST (GMT+2). Piotr Tynecki of SLAVIC AI, the creator of phage.ai, will give a talk entitled "Boosting phage exploration by Artificial Intelligence: what

Cassandra Nelson, University of Maryland Next week’s Pseudomonas Seminar will be held on Tuesday July 21th at 1pm EST. Our speaker will be Dr. Patrick Secor from the University of Montana presenting “The intersection of quorum sensing and P

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Nigeria Are you changing lab or upgrading equipment? Consider donating used or old equipment to our phage lab to help us build our phage capacity. Email: eennadi@gmail.com

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Nigeria Would you consider a phage that has acitivity against Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus capitis, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas spp an asset or liability? Good phage

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new preprint on a new prophage-encoded defense protein that simultaneously suppresses phage epidemics in a population (through abortive infection) and provides self-immunity to t

James Gurney (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on 'phage steering': when phages are used to push pathogens to evolve to be less antibiotic-resistant. They show that Pseudomonas phage OMKO1 effectively pu

Intralytix has been issued a US patent covering its Shigella phages and their various formulations and applications (US Patent # 10,711,252), including improving food safety and human health, maintaining healthy gut microflora by modulating

Stanley Ho (University of Birmingham) has made a list of bioinformatics tools for predicting and identifying phages in metagenomes and metaviromes. See also this Twitter thread, where others have been sharing similar tools.

DBSCAN-SWA is a new tool for prophage detection, recently published as a preprint by Rui Gan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) and colleagues. Preprint | Github.

Katja Šuster (Valdoltra Orthopaedic Hospital, Slovenia) and colleagues published a new paper in The New Microbiologica describing their use of phage K to speed up Staphylococcus detection in prosthetic joint fluid.

Oriana Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing the isolation and characterization of 13 phages with the potential to control Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actini

The 2020 PhageAI preprint describes a genome-sequence classifier for lytic and lysogenic life cycles. It reports 98.90% validation accuracy and 97.18% average test accuracy, and describes access through a REST service and Python package. Ph

Phage Directory Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for PHAVES earlier this week, where Elyse Stachler talked about her research into combining phages with disinfectants. We had a great time meeting so many of you at the breakout sessi

Vitalis Phage Therapy This Sunday, Dr Vinod Kumar CS will share his expertise of 20yrs working w/ #Bacteriophage & #AMR on Ep. 8 of #AllAboutPhageTherapy! His recent studies include #PhageKinetics of #MRSA phages & #Phage as alternative to

Innovative Solutions Canada Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) has an open grant call for "Detection of food borne pathogenic bacteria using field deployable instruments". Any phage companies in Canada working on such things? Apply by July 2

Dr. Saima Aslam of IPATH in San Diego received funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to initiate and maintain a multicenter clinical cohort of cystic fibrosis patients and lung transplant recipients infected with Burkholderia cepacia