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Normally presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, the 2020 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize will still be awarded this year. The award acknowledges young scientists with skill, insight, rigor, and dedication to scien

A special issue of the journal Viruses dedicated to "Phage-Bacteria Interplay in Health and Disease" is inviting manuscripts reporting or reviewing current findings on the role of phages in the microbiome, from the context of health and dis

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

Ward Deboutte (KU Leuven) and colleagues have published their work on the diversity of the honey-bee phageome in PNAS. This study not only sheds light on the bee microbiome, but highlights the potential consequences of phage-host interactio

Ningyun Zhou (University of Oklahoma) and colleagues have developed a new phage-based platform that can rapidly catalyze the growth of neural cells. Paper | Press release, with explainer video.

Phages went to space, and now they're back! In a blog post, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific describe their study of phage-host interactions and evolution in microgravity (using the spaceflight env

A new phage-based skincare product has been released! Wild Resilience Active Phage Serum, made by California biotech company Ellis Day Skin Science, contains a blend of two phages (called 'Cutiphage'). This is the company's first product. R

OmniLytics, a US biotech company developing phage-based products for crops (a subsidiary of PhageLux AgriHealth) has entered a new partnership with DCM, one of Europe's leading plant care companies. DCM will sell Omnilytics' phage products

Want to mine prophage regions from large metagenomic datasets? Phigaro is a command-line application created by Elizaveta Starikova (Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Russia) and colleagues. It detects prop

Join us in congratulating Dr. Graham Hatfull, Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the pioneer behind SEA-PHAGES, for being elected as a 2020 member of the Am

A new phage-based skincare product has been released! Wild Resilience Active Phage Serum, made by California biotech company Ellis Day Skin Science, contains a blend of two phages (called 'Cutiphage'). This is the company's first product. R

Nobel Prize (2018, phage display) winner George Smith, a University of Missouri professor, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences based on his lifetime of achievement in science.

Join us in congratulating Dr. Graham Hatfull, Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the pioneer behind SEA-PHAGES, for being elected as a 2020 member of the Am

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

Ward Deboutte (KU Leuven) and colleagues have published their work on the diversity of the honey-bee phageome in PNAS. This study not only sheds light on the bee microbiome, but highlights the potential consequences of phage-host interactio

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

Phages went to space, and now they're back! In a blog post, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific describe their study of phage-host interactions and evolution in microgravity (using the spaceflight env

Normally presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, the 2020 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize will still be awarded this year. The award acknowledges young scientists with skill, insight, rigor, and dedication to scien

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

OmniLytics, a US biotech company developing phage-based products for crops (a subsidiary of PhageLux AgriHealth) has entered a new partnership with DCM, one of Europe's leading plant care companies. DCM will sell Omnilytics' phage products