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Here's a new phage therapy podcast episode featuring Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic-Fabijan and Dr. Ruby Lin from the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Westmead, Australia. [Medical Journal of Australia Podcast, 21 mins]

Dr. Soleimani I am seeking a research position in phage therapy or molecular phage studies. I hold a Ph.D from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran (Department of microbiology and microbial biotechnology, faculty of life sciences and bi

Dr. Soleimani I am seeking a research position in phage therapy or molecular phage studies. I hold a Ph.D from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran (Department of microbiology and microbial biotechnology, faculty of life sciences and bi

Michele Mutti and Lorenzo Corsini of the phage biotech company PhagoMed have published a review on GMP production of phages for therapy. They review the literature covering technical issues and approaches to increase robustness at each step

Sara Clifton of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and colleagues have used population modeling to examine the role of latent prophages in bacterial populations in response to antibiotic treatment. They show that antibiotics can

Related to the new NIAID request for applications (RFA) for phage studies, here's a videocast of the NIAID council meeting where they discuss their phage interests and why they're going to fund phage studies now and in the future. Start wat

Kevin Yehl of MIT and colleagues have developed a high-throughput strategy to genetically engineer host range-determining regions within phage tail fiber proteins to create libraries of millions of phages with different receptor binding cap

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria My lab started isolation of phages from hospital environment, so far we have isolated a phage effective against E.coli and working on phages against P. aeruginosa. As a small unfunde

Dr. Ritah Nakayinga, Kyambogo University, Uganda Hello passionate phage scientists, My name is Dr. Ritah Nakayinga and I will be starting phage research, early 2020, at Kyambogo University, Uganda. My research is funded by IDRC/OWSD. I will

I have a master's degree in microbiology. I defended my thesis with the title of 'Isolation and Identification of Specific Viruses Isolated from the Microbial Corroded Place in the Petroleum Industry' with the best grade. The title of one o

Dr. Ritah Nakayinga, Kyambogo University, Uganda Hello passionate phage scientists, My name is Dr. Ritah Nakayinga and I will be starting phage research, early 2020, at Kyambogo University, Uganda. My research is funded by IDRC/OWSD. I will

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria My lab started isolation of phages from hospital environment, so far we have isolated a phage effective against E.coli and working on phages against P. aeruginosa. As a small unfunde

I have a master's degree in microbiology. I defended my thesis with the title of 'Isolation and Identification of Specific Viruses Isolated from the Microbial Corroded Place in the Petroleum Industry' with the best grade. The title of one o

Big news! NIH (NIAID) has put out a request for applications for translational phage research to inform phage therapy! If you're interested in applying and are looking for particular expertise to add to your proposal, or have expertise to s

#### Between July 26 and Sep. 30, we welcomed: - 16 phage professionals Ael Hardy, Anna Dragos, Cesar de la Fuente, Christine Thompson, Fatma Abdelrahman, Francesca Hodges, Geoffrey Hutinet, Hardian Susilo Addy, Jared Schlechte, Jonas Van B

Dr. Christine Rohde I recently accepted to serve as Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Phage Diversity for Research and Application” of the journal Antibiotics. I would be very pleased if you agreed to contribute a research paper, or a com

Dr. Pallavali Roja Rani I am seeking a post-doctoral position related to Bacteriophage therapy, Antibiotic Resistance and Biofilm studies. The main objective of my Ph.D. thesis was to study the predominant bacterial isolates of septic wound

Dr. Heather Hendrickson Does anyone have a robust and reliable method that they like for auto detecting HGT in completely sequence genomes? I was playing with HGTecor last week but it seems to be broken. Help? —@DrHHNZ | Tweet thread

Big news! NIH (NIAID) has put out a request for applications for translational phage research to inform phage therapy! If you're interested in applying and are looking for particular expertise to add to your proposal, or have expertise to s

A multidisciplinary research team including Sam Nugen's group at Cornell University, Betty Kutter's group at Evergreen State College, and Lone Brøndsted's group at the University of Copenhagen, has received a $2.6 million NIH grant to study