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Submissions are open to the special issue of the journal Viruses, "Viruses of Microbes 2020: The Latest Conquests on Viruses of Microbes". This issue is associated with the 2021 meeting from the International Society of Viruses of Microbes

Metagenomics is enabling discovery of millions of new viral sequences, but no tools previously existed to estimate their quality. Stephen Nayfach (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues created CheckV, an automated pipeline for assessin

Submissions are open to the special issue of the journal Viruses, "Viruses of Microbes 2020: The Latest Conquests on Viruses of Microbes". This issue is associated with the 2021 meeting from the International Society of Viruses of Microbes

Maria Cambraia Guimaro, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County I am a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate working for STEM BUILD, an undergraduate success initiative investigating ways to enhance the diversity and success of STEM student

Shweta Karambelkar (Indian Institute of Science) and colleagues published a interesting report on how phage Mu uniquely protects its DNA from diverse host defense systems in Nucleic Acids Research. They characterized Mu's "Mom" protein, whi

Andrej Balaz (Geneton Ltd, Slovakia) and colleagues published a preprint describing PHERI, a phage host exploration tool that uses a machine learning algorithm to predict the host of a phage based on its sequence. Preprint | Application dow

Jason Schrad (Michigan State University) and colleagues published a structural characterization in Cell (through cryoEM, cryoET, and SEM) of how giant virus infection is initiated. They also use proteomics to identify proteins released from

Phage Directory We've heard from many of you that you're missing out on hearing about each other's phage work! So we're putting together a plan for a series of virtual phage events. Let us know your topic suggestions, nominate a speaker (m

Aquatic Biologicals We are excited to announce and share with you the forthcoming talk of the CEO and founder of Aquatic Biologicals, Dr. Pantelis Katharios, who is going to give a webinar through #EAStalk on "Phage therapy as an alternativ

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria Would you be interested in collaborating on a grant fellowship application? I plan to apply for the EDCTP-TMA2020CDF - Career Development Fellowships on poverty-related diseases part

Jesca Lukanga Nakavuma (BVM, PhD), Makerere University We are applying for NORHED II grants and we wish to actualize the Eastern Africa phage research consortium aimed at establishing/upgrading a lab for in-depth characterization of phages,

Phage Directory We've heard from many of you that you're missing out on hearing about each other's phage work! So we're putting together a plan for a series of virtual phage events. The original invitation requested topic suggestions, spea

Aquatic Biologicals We are excited to announce and share with you the forthcoming talk of the CEO and founder of Aquatic Biologicals, Dr. Pantelis Katharios, who is going to give a webinar through #EAStalk on "Phage therapy as an alternativ

Vitalis Phage Therapy In these difficult times of pandemic lockdowns and quarantine, we bring you a series of discussions called "All About Phage Therapy". For the first discussion, senior microbiologist Prof. Sanjay Chhibber from Panjab Un

US biotech company Intralytix was just awarded a multimillion dollar grant from NIAID to perform a phase 1/2a clinicial trial to assess safety and efficacy of phage therapy against Shigella.

Artem Isaev (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia) and colleagues have published an article in Nucleic Acids Research on how the T7 phage DNA mimic protein Ocr inhibits the host BREX defense system. Ocr, which had been previ

Katherine Wetzel (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues recently published their work on protein-mediated and RNA-based origins of replication of extrachromosomal mycobacterial prophages in mBio. The study highlights the diversity of lys

Flavia Squeglia (National Research Council of Italy) and colleagues published a paper in Structure that describes a new structural and functional study of a Klebsiella phage tailspike protein with capsular polysaccharide depolymerase activi

Wenyuan Chen (Hunan Normal University, China) and colleagues published a letter in Protein & Cell describing a cryo-EM study into the structural changes the T7 phage capsid undergoes upon DNA packaging and maturation.

The French Phage Network (Phages.fr) has published its annual conference report, which summarizes what was discussed at the 5th annual conference, which took place in Grenoble, France, in October 2019. This meeting attracted about 100 parti