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The Broussard Lab at The Pennsylvania State University(Pennsylvania, USA) is hiring a part-time research assistant to conduct experiments on vibriophage.

Phage Futures EU 2021 returns in-person in Brussels, Belgium on November 23-24! The theme will be 'Translating phage-based applications into clinically and commercially viable therapeutics'. Use code PHAGEDIRECTORY10 (or PD10) for a 10% di

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2022, the conference finally taking place this summer in Portugal - after being rescheduled from 2020. In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganis

The next Phage Phun is Wed, Nov 24 at 9AM Pacific! Phage Phun: informal, self-serve Zoom breakout rooms, where you can hop between topic-based rooms and meet new phage phriends! At Evergreen we had rooms like ‘Catching up with phriends’, ‘P

The Ohio State University (OSU) Centre of Microbiome Science in collaboration with European Virus Bioinformatics Center and Emergent Ecosystems Response to Change (EMERGE) have launched an ECR-focused virome series. Nominate speakers in the

Hany Anany, Antonet Svircev and Eeva Vainio and I (Paul Hyman) are editing a research topic in Frontiers in Microbiology titled “Beyond humans - virus therapy for pathogens of animals and plants” to highlight work with other systems besides

BioNTech SE has acquired PhagoMed GmbH! PhagoMed is a Vienna, Austria-based phage lysin and phage therapy company. The partnership of PhagoMed with BioNTech will further advance the synthetic lysin technology (LysinBuilder).

Maria Loose (Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics showing natural bred ε2-phages have improved host range and virulence against uropathogenic Escherichia coli over their ancestor pha

Sean Meaden (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology showing high viral abundance and low diversity are associated with increased CRISPR-Cas prevalence across microbial ecosystems.

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School, USA) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity.

Carlos Martinez-Soto (University of Guelph, Canada) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing PHIDA: A high throughput turbidimetric data analytic tool to compare host range profiles of bacteriophages isolated using different

This week, we highlight the feature articles we published in October! Learn about the phages being collected around the world, a doctor-patient experience with phage therapy, successful use of phage to treat bacterial prostatitis, and Cytop

The Kenny Lab at University College Cork (Cork, Ireland) is hiring a research assistant to develop phage therapy solutions to target Streptococcus suis in pigs.

The Van Tyne lab at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, US) is hiring a laboratory technician to study phages and how they can be developed into new antimicrobial therapeutics.

The Microbiology & Immunology unit for SEA-PHAGES at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) is hiring a teaching assistant.

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The Adriaenssens Lab at the Quadram Institute (Norwich, UK) are seeking a PhD student to investigate how phages contribute to adaptation of commensal bacteria to the human gut.

The Ahlgren Lab at Clark University (Massachusetts, US) is seeking a PhD student to study the phylogenetic and genomic determinants of host range in Synechococcus and cyanophages.

The Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) is seeking a PhD student to determine the crystal structures of ssDNA binding proteins and use cryo-electron microscopy to determine structures of macr

Thank you to everyone who participated in our very first #WorldPhageWeek #scicomm challenge! Overall we had just over 70 individual phage researchers participate, and it was great seeing all the phage posts on Twitter! Thank you again to Dr