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Not much is known about filamentous phages, which chronically infect their hosts and can dramatically affect host physiology, but their genomes are starting to be detected by the hundreds. Jason Shapiro and Catherine Putonti (Loyola Univers

Liang Li (Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems showing the critical impact of the novel prophage ϕSA169 on MRSA persistence in the bloodstream.

Yoon Hwang of the Naval Medical Research Unit in San Antonio received the Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award for his research into the development of a handheld device that uses phages to detect and identify

Studying phage lambda has brought countless insights to the phage field and beyond. In a new review, Jodi Brewster and Gökhan Tolun (University of Wollongong, Australia) go over key in vitro experiments from the last half-century of researc

Austen Terwilliger (TAILΦR Initiative, Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues have published a paper outlining the concept, structure, and process behind TAILΦR's method of addressing bacterial infections in vulnerable patients through

Interested in how phages could be useful in the COVID-19 battle? Here are a couple of opinions on this: one by Marcin Wojewodzic (Cancer Registry of Norway), published in PHAGE journal, and one by health and science journalist Helen Albert,

M. R. Madhav, a student at Vellore Institute of Technology in India, and one of our newest Phage Directory volunteers, has a phage blog called Phage Fanatic. Check it out!

International Bacteriophage Research Consortium International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC), created by Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), USA and Acharya Narendra Dev College (ANDC), University of Delhi, India is organizing

Phage Directory Our virtual event series, PHAVES, continues this coming Tuesday, July 7 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 5:00 PM Zurich (GMT+2). Dr. Elyse Stachler, postdoc at Eawag in Switzerland, will share her research into combining phages

Abiola Olaitan I am excited about moving to Canada and seeking research opportunities (academia or industry) in phage therapy in Canada. I am an early-career researcher with robust experience in bacterial antibiotic resistance and host-path

Gary Trubl Hey virus people! I would like to get a list of labs that have cultured soil viruses. If you are one or know one can you add to the list? Only the lab name & website are required. This resource would really help the community. RT

Vitalis Phage Therapy In case you missed it, Pranav Johri of Vitalis Phage Therapy interviewed Jean-Paul Pirnay of the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium today on All About Phage Therapy. Watch the recording here!

Eligo Bioscience was awarded funding from CARB-X to develop CRISPR-based phage therapeutics (up to $1.82 million now, and up to $7.05 million if project milestones are met). This is the first CRISPR-based phage project CARB-X has funded.

The Academy of Finland has granted 10 million Euro for research into COVID-related projects, and part of that will fund phage work! Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki in Finland were awarded funding for a

Hugo Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing that a phage tailspike with EPS-depolymerase activity, encoded by a phage belonging to a new genus within t

Marta Lourenço (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host and Microbe on how spatial heterogeneity in the gut limits phage predation and supports phage-host coexistence.

Andrew Hryckowian and Eric Martens have written a nice article on the backstory behind their recent paper on how capsular polysaccharides influence phage interactions with the gut symbiont Bacterioides thetaiotaomicron. Behind-the-paper | N

Josef Prazak (Bern University Hospital, Switzerland) and colleagues published a new paper in Critical Care Medicine showing that prophylactically administering nebulized phages to rats with experimental ventilator-associated pneumonia reduc

Bartłomiej Grygorcewicz (Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Drug Resistance showing that Acinetobacter baumannii phages could reduce biofilm biomass in a human urine model, a

Heather Hendrickson's lab at Massey University in New Zealand is working on finding phages for honeybee pathogens. Here's a nice video update from Heather, which also features Danielle Kok, a PhD student isolating the phages for this projec