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Adelaide Almeida, University of Aveiro The journal Microorganisms has a special phage issue open called "Bacteriophage Treatment as an Alternative Technology to Inactivate Pathogenic Bacteria: A Generalized Worldwide Growing Acceptance". Gu

Adelaide Almeida, University of Aveiro The journal Microorganisms has a special phage issue open called "Bacteriophage Treatment as an Alternative Technology to Inactivate Pathogenic Bacteria: A Generalized Worldwide Growing Acceptance". Gu

Carmen Gu Liu (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on phage-antibiotic synergy. They've created a comprehensive method for evaluating synergism, additivism, and antagonism for all antibiotic classes, (they're

Paul Kirchberger (UT Austin) and colleagues published a new paper in eLife showing the resurrection of Gokushoviruses, barely-understood single-stranded DNA phages found in metagenomic datasets worldwide, in an experimentally tractable mode

Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio investigating Enterococcus faecalis interactions with a virulent phage. They highlight roles for polysaccharide antigens and DNA mi

Abul Tarafder (University of Oxford) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS showing how the phage Pf4 forms a sheath made of liquid crystalline droplets around its host, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which protects it from antibiotics and more.

Patrick Secor (University of Montana) and colleagues published a review on Pf phages and what we know so far about their impacts on Pseudomonas virulence, immunity and chronic infections.

Reminder: thinking of submitting an abstract for Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this July? The abstract deadline is coming up soon: March 16th!

STAT Madness has begun and there are 2 days left in round 1. Vote for the best biomedical innovations (in a "March Madness"-style format!). Phage therapy for alcoholic liver disease (UCSD) is in the running!

The first issue of Mary Ann Liebert's PHAGE journal is available now online.

The second meeting of Boston PFU (Phage Fanatics United) takes place March 19 at 5:30 pm at the Harvard Medical School Countway Medical Library. There will be food and two phage research talks (by Mia Liberman and Sian Owen). Doing phage wo

The second meeting of Boston PFU (Phage Fanatics United) takes place March 19 at 5:30 pm at the Harvard Medical School Countway Medical Library. There will be food and two phage research talks (by Mia Liberman and Sian Owen). Doing phage wo

The Global Virome in Health and Disease Keystone Symposium happened this week, and there were many phage talks! Check out the hashtag #ksvirome on Twitter to catch up. And in the spirit of openness, Rob Edwards (SDSU) made his crAssphage pr

Important question: if I had a student who wanted to make an undomesticated bacteriophage mutant that could not make plaques, other than conditionally, is there a way other than bashing plaque isolates at two temperatures after random mutag

Paul Kirchberger (UT Austin) and colleagues published a new paper in eLife showing the resurrection of Gokushoviruses, barely-understood single-stranded DNA phages found in metagenomic datasets worldwide, in an experimentally tractable mode

The Global Virome in Health and Disease Keystone Symposium happened this week, and there were many phage talks! Check out the hashtag #ksvirome on Twitter to catch up. And in the spirit of openness, Rob Edwards (SDSU) made his crAssphage pr

Carmen Gu Liu (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on phage-antibiotic synergy. They've created a comprehensive method for evaluating synergism, additivism, and antagonism for all antibiotic classes, (they're

Important question: if I had a student who wanted to make an undomesticated bacteriophage mutant that could not make plaques, other than conditionally, is there a way other than bashing plaque isolates at two temperatures after random mutag

Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio investigating Enterococcus faecalis interactions with a virulent phage. They highlight roles for polysaccharide antigens and DNA mi

STAT Madness has begun and there are 2 days left in round 1. Vote for the best biomedical innovations (in a "March Madness"-style format!). Phage therapy for alcoholic liver disease (UCSD) is in the running!