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Phages for Global Health's president, Dr. Tobi Nagel, has been selected as 1 of 22 Fulbright Global Scholars in this year's cohort! Funded by the US Congress, Tobi’s project will help establish phage regulatory systems in Africa and Asia b

UC San Diego's Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) is launching the Phage Therapy Clinical Support Fund to increase accessibility to phage therapy for patients worldwide who require compassionate use of phages.

On a new episode of the Accelerating Success podcast, Dr. Steven Theriault discusses how regulatory hurdles in Canada hinder access to innovative animal health products, leading Cytophage Technologies to decide against bringing their produc

Phage.ai has developed a Python package! PhageAI is an AI-driven software platform for prediction of phage lifecycle and taxonomy, providing valuable insights into phage characteristics and protein structural classes classification. Try it

If you are using iPHoP for phage host prediction: a new update has just been released (1.3.3), alongside an updated host database now based on GTDB r214. Updated code and database available via conda / Docker. Report any issues here.

Phage Research Progress Assessment for Collective Funding Application Dear Phage Research Community, We invite you to participate in this brief survey to assess the current state of phage research in various labs. Your valuable insights w

Abstract submissions are OPEN for #VoM2024 Meeting in Cairns, Australia! Join us July 15-19, 2024 to explore the expanding frontiers in virology. Check the website for details & to submit an abstract, & watch the video invitation to get eve

Call for Organizers: VoM 2026! The ISVM invites enthusiastic members to organize the Viruses of Microbes 2026 conference, #VoM2026. Submit your application by April 30, 2024, to board@isvm.org. Be at the forefront of this exciting conferenc

iVoM Season 3, the ISVM’s webinar series, kicks off this December with its first session on "Ecological & Functional Roles of Viruses in Contrasting Environments." Mark your calendars: Dec 12, 2023, 8 PM CET.

Phage Oxford 2024, the longest running phage conferences series in Europe, and the second longest running phage conference globally, will be held on 02-03 September 2024 as a ‘virtual/in-person’ hybrid event at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK.

The Sustainable Microbiology journal has a themed collection focused on phage diversity and contributions to improving animal, environmental, and human health. Submit your research by January 1, 2024.

iVoM is the online community of ISVM, and it's back for a third live webinar series! We just announced the first session: Ecological and functional roles of viruses, with speakers from Max Planck Institute, Weizmann Institute, UC Berkeley,

Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2024 is happening in Cairns, Australia July 15-19 2024. This is the International Society for Viruses of Microbes (ISVM)'s flagship biennial conference, held outside of Europe next year for the very first time! Abs

Viruses of Microbes UK, a local subsidiary of VoM, will take place January 25-26, 2024 at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. This will be a two-day round table and phage genomics workshop, highlighting the latest research on p

Grace Beggs and colleagues at Princeton University are organizing a workshop called "Bacteria versus Phage: The Main Event" from January 10-12, 2024, focusing on the interactions between bacteria and phage, bringing together scientists inte

The Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Virtual Conference (6 & 7 February, 2024; free and online) is currently accepting submissions for poster presentations.

Karen Maxwell (University of Toronto) has been awarded the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship for her research into antiviral defenses, which uncovered novel CRISPR inhibitors (anti-CRISPRs), according to a recent announcement by NSERC (Canada).

Andrea Fossati just announced that their grant for investigating phage-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactions was funded by Vetenskapsradet (the Swedish Research Council).

Workshop on personalized phage therapy: from lab to the patient - Join the 2nd edition of this exciting workshop Nov 30-Dec 2 in Brussels, Belgium hosted by BSVoM and coordinated by Dr. Jean-Paul Pirnay, Dr. Maya Merabishvilli, and Dr. Tea

Atif Khan has created a Whatsapp channel for phage updates, providing researchers with the latest news and information about phages.