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Vivek Mutalik (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues have published a new preprint on high-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli. Through systematic, genome-wide loss-of-function and gain-of-function studi

Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems on quantitative modeling of phage-antibiotic combination therapy. Their findings highlight the role of antibiotics and the immune

Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) and colleagues have shown that phages isolated from growth-stunted Bangladeshi children are different from those in non-stunted children. They show these phages are infectious i

Phages are extremely diverse at the genetic level, but not so much at the structural level... why? In an informative new review, Moïra Dion (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues have explored phage diversity at the structural, genomic a

Are there really 10^31 viral particles on Earth? Here's a new minireview by A. R. Mushegian (National Science Foundation) on how that number ("The Hendrix Product") was derived, and whether it needs to be revised.

Submit an abstract for the Monash-UCSD Bacteriophage Symposium (Mar 30, 2020, Melbourne, Australia).

ISME (International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, August 9-14, 2020, Cape Town, South Africa) will have a virus/phage session this year. Submit abstracts by March 6; propose round table topics by Feb 29!

What is the best way to search an assembled phage contig against human metagenome datasets? Regular blastn at NCBI doesn't seem to include these, do we have to download the data to search locally or is there an online resource? — @jason_j_g

Are there really 10^31 viral particles on Earth? Here's a new minireview by A. R. Mushegian (National Science Foundation) on how that number ("The Hendrix Product") was derived, and whether it needs to be revised.

ISME (International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, August 9-14, 2020, Cape Town, South Africa) will have a virus/phage session this year. Submit abstracts by March 6; propose round table topics by Feb 29!

Submit an abstract for the Monash-UCSD Bacteriophage Symposium (Mar 30, 2020, Melbourne, Australia).

Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems on quantitative modeling of phage-antibiotic combination therapy. Their findings highlight the role of antibiotics and the immune

Vivek Mutalik (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues have published a new preprint on high-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli. Through systematic, genome-wide loss-of-function and gain-of-function studi

Alexandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published their safe IV treatment of 13 critically-ill, septic patients with a GMP-prepared S. aureus phage cocktail in Nature Microbiology. Jon

7-year old Australian patient successfully treated with community-sourced phages The staff of the Infectious Diseases and Orthopaedics departments of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research Irede

SciPhage is a women-led biotech company out of Colombia aiming to bring science into society and to support female scientists who want to start a biotech business. To get their Salmonella phage cocktail to market, they have announced a fund

The new Bacterial-Viral BRC (BV-BRC), a collaboration between the PATRIC/RAST and IRD/ViPR teams, will be offering a joint bacterial and viral workshop from March 23 through 27 at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.

In case you missed it, last week, along with the help of Sabrina Green and Ella Balasa, we provided live coverage of Phage Futures Congress 2020. Find highlights on our website, and check out coverage on Twitter (#PhageFutures) and Instagra

First jumbophages and megaphages... now we have 'huge phages'. Basem Al-Shayeb (UC Berkeley) and colleagues have identified and classified hundreds of new giant phage genomes (one as large as 735 kb) from human, animal and environmental mic

The Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) conference (June 22-25 2020, Guelph, Ontario) will have an 'All about Phages' session! Register here.