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Phage Canada, a newly established non-profit organization aiming to support and advance phage research and phage therapeutics in Canada, has a new website and is open for membership!

Researchers: want to help develop a phage-based TB diagnostic? Consider sharing samples from previous studies with the team at PDB Biotech. Dr. Timothy Rodwell’s lab at UCSD has already donated over 2,000 frozen PBMC samples for this work,

Join us for the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference in beautiful Cairns, Australia to hear all about the latest advances in the field and reconnect with friends & colleagues. We are currently building the full scientific program, but there

Baylor College of Medicine researchers Anthony Maresso and Michael Tisza, have won the 2024 STAT Madness competition for their groundbreaking work on using wastewater monitoring as an early-warning system for disease outbreaks, demonstratin

Wilfried Moreira is serving as Guest Editor for a new Special Issue on "Bacteriophage Biology and Phage-Derived Technologies" in the open access journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences, with a submission deadline of August 31, 2

Join us for the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference in beautiful Cairns, Australia to hear all about the latest advances in the field and reconnect with friends & colleagues. We are currently building the full scientific program, but there

WHO Europe in collaboration with the Global AMR R&D Hub is hosting a webinar called ‘Towards building the evidence for broader use of bacteriophages from an AMR One Health perspective’ on April 18. This 1st webinar in a series of 3 will foc

IDWeek 2024 (Oct 16-19, Los Angeles) is now accepting applications for their Pipeline Sessions and BugHub Stages, inviting companies and researchers to submit novel antimicrobial agents or diagnostic technologies for a chance to present at

Aaryan Harshith (Stanford University) has just launched PhageBase, a dedicated phage TEM image database. There are already quite a few phages on there; feel free to upload your own! He wrote a blog introducing it here.

Phage researchers are invited to save the date for the 2024 International Soil Virus Conference in Livermore, California, USA, from June 25 to June 27, focusing on exploring the multifaceted roles of soil viruses within a One Health framewo

New phage textbook edition alert! Tristan Ferry, an ID physician in Lyon, announced the release of the second edition of "Bacteriophage Therapy; From Lab to Clinical Practice.". The book, edited by Sanna Sillankorva and Joana Azeredo, cover

The International Society of Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM) is calling for applications to organize the Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2026 conference. Interested ISVM members should submit their applications by April 30, 2024, to board@isvm.

Only 4 months remain until the Viruses of Microbes 2024 Meeting takes place (July 15-19, 2024). Phage researchers are encouraged to confirm their participation early to plan for the trip down under!

The International Society of Microbiota will host their 11th Annual Meeting, Targeting Microbiota, on October 17-18 at the Corinthia Palace Malta, to explore the role of microbiota in health and disease, advancements in microbiome medicine,

Wondering how phage therapy startups raise money? PhageLab recently raised $11M, and this ‘pitch deck teardown’ blog post goes through the pitch deck they used to convince investors, which slides pack the most punch, and other tips.

The International Society of Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM) is calling for applications to organize the Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2026 conference. Interested ISVM members should submit their applications by April 30, 2024, to board@isvm.

The 2nd Symposium of the Belgian Society for Viruses of Microbes (BSVoM) was held on September 8, 2023, at the University of Liège, featuring over 140 researchers from 10 countries discussing phage ecology, diversity, and applications. The

The BV-BRC Viral Sub-species Classification Workshop, funded by NIAID, will be held in Rockville, MD from April 8-10, 2024. This hybrid event, in collaboration with the CDC and NCBI, aims to establish best practices for viral sub-species c

In a recent podcast episode of This Week in Virology (TWiV), learn how a viral capsid protein activates a bacterial innate immune system, interfering with protein synthesis, and human-associated redondoviruses that infect the commensal prot

In another recent TWiV episode, learn how mammalian cells internalize and utilize phage particles to enhance cell growth and survival.