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Hello, #phage tweeps! I have a question. Suppose you have a bunch of phage MAGs, each composed of more than 1 contig: how do you calculate their completeness? I have a couple of ideas, but I still need to evaluate their feasibility. - @Mich

Phage Directory Do you have a new or upcoming paper that you're excited about sharing with the phage community? We'd like to publish more Behind the Paper articles (like last week's by Prof. Yves Briers) in future Capsid & Tail issues. To t

Armata Pharmaceuticals just received a $15 million award from the US Department of Defense to take its Staphylococcus aureus phage cocktail to phase 1b/2 clinical trials.

How should we optimally design phage cocktail timing and dosage to deal with evolutionary escape of pathogens? Guanlin Li and Chung Yin Leung (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on using mathematical model

Thilini Jayasinghe (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology showing differences in compositions of gut bacterial populations and phages in 5–11 year-olds

Katarzyna Leskinen (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on how they determined the genome of a non-sequenceable Yersinia phage YerA41 via RNA-sequencing.

Gang Wang (Jiangnan University) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing the diversity of the CRISPR-Cas system and prophages present in the genome reveals co-evolution of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum a

What's new in the world of molecular mechanisms of lysogeny? Margit Pedersen and colleagues (University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark) have published a new paper in Scientific Reports investigating repressor binding inte

Intralytix is a phage company in Maryland, USA that began in 1998 developing phage products for food; recently they've moved toward human therapy. Read about their recent progress here, including their new NIAID-funded Shigella phage clinic

A 2020 paper in PHAGE evaluates methods for processing sputum from patients with cystic fibrosis to detect Pf bacteriophage virion-derived nucleic acid, testing the effect of bead beating, DNase digestion and heating steps and quantifying P

Phage Directory We're excited to announce that we've launched an ongoing sponsorship program for Phage Directory's community building activities, and we have our first Bronze Sponsor: JAFRAL! JAFRAL is the world's only CMO/CRO dedicated pr

Phage Directory Phage Directory's Virtual Event Series, PHAVES, starts this Tuesday, June 16 at 9:00 AM MDT (GMT-6)! For the kickoff event, Jessica and Jan will introduce the virtual series and Phage Directory's projects for 2020, and we'll

Atiwich Patthamapornsirikul My name is Atiwich and I am graduated from Horticultural Science at University of Bologna. I am a prospect Ph.D. student at Plant Pathology, INRAe PACA, Avignon, France, in the research project entitled “Building

International Bacteriophage Research Consortium We are very pleased to have Prof. Graham Hatfull share his inspiring body of work on mycobacteriophages through live in discussion with us. Graham Hatfull’s research focuses on the molecular g

Muhammad Sohail, Conference Director 09-10 September 2020 http://lpmhealthcare.com/phages-2020-virtual/ Twitter: @PhageOxford; Hashtag: #PhgOx20V Email: PhageOxford@gmail.com The themes and focus of the meeting will be all aspects of bacte

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the fifth episode of All About Phage Therapy, we talked with Dr Aradhana Vipra, head of microbiology and Dr Jagadeesh Bhat, senior scientific manager at India's first phage research company, GangaGen Biotechnologies

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and the Mayo Clinic have announced a collaboration to commercialize a phage susceptibility test. The test will enable rapid identification of patient-specific phages for therapy (based on screening hundreds of ca

Charlotte Brives (CNRS, France) and Jessica Pourraz (Université de Bordeaux) published an anthropologist's take on the field of phage therapy. This paper digs into how the way we think about and develop antibiotics continues to inhibit phag

Ronen Hazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues at the Hadassah Medical Center have been awarded an Israel Precision Medicine Partnership grant to pursue their phage therapy program. So far they've banked 300 phages and have tre

The Skurnik group at the Unviersity of Helsinki recently published three phage papers in Viruses! The papers span Yersinia phages, Acinetobacter phages, and Klebsiella phages, and between them they cover lytic, temperate and even "non-seque