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Dr. Hany Anany of Agri-Food Canada was interviewed in this piece on phage use in agriculture. He gives an overview of how phages are currently used in the global food industry, how phages are seen by Health Canada, and how phages could be a

Congratulations to Cesar de la Fuente, one of our early Phage Directory community members (check out his impressive collection of phages!), who was just awarded the 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award.

Congratulations to Cesar de la Fuente, one of our early Phage Directory community members (check out his impressive collection of phages!), who was just awarded the 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award.

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

Dr. Hany Anany of Agri-Food Canada was interviewed in this piece on phage use in agriculture. He gives an overview of how phages are currently used in the global food industry, how phages are seen by Health Canada, and how phages could be a

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.

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,

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

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

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

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.

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

Benjamin Adler (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint describing their application of their recently-developed high-throughput phage-host interaction discovery method to Salmonella phages. This gave them a highly resolved vie

Phage Directory Last week, we sent an urgent alert for phages on behalf of a patient in Finland with ESBL E. coli. The phage hunt was initiated by Mikael Skurnik and his lab at the University of Helsinki (read a nice profile on the Skurnik

Jameel Ahmad Khan, PhD, Head R&D (IVD-Division), Trivitron Healthcare I am working on a COVID-19 RNA isolation kit. We are observing huge lab to lab variations in RNA yield among Pathology labs. Therefore, I am planning to use RNA phage Par

Hi, My name is Sunil Nawaz. I have M.phil in Microbiology degree with published research work. I have experience in blog writing, science writing, Academic teaching and Pharmaceutical Microbiology Lab. I am looking for a Job in a research g

Steffanie Strathdee, IPATH, UCSD Do you live on a farm? IPATH is finally re-opening after our lab was swamped by COVID19. We're looking for volunteers to send samples from animal farms for phage hunts. Email IPATH@ucsd.edu for instructions

Jeroen Wagemans (KU Leuven) and colleagues published a structural analysis of a jumbo avian pathogenic E. coli-targeting phage with an inner body rod within the capsid and an unusually hairy tail. Check out the paper, which examines the pha

Due to the continued uncertainty caused by COVID-19, the 2020 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting has been cancelled. The meeting will be held next year, August 9-13, 2021 in Madison, Wisconsin.