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The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Wellcome, and Gates Foundation have released a call for proposals on innovative approaches to discover broad-spectrum antibiotics against Gram-negative pathogens, focusing on Klebsiella spp. Apply by March 25, 2

Mikael Skurnik (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a new in-depth review on phage therapy methods, showing comprehensive protocols for isolating, characterizing, and applying phages in therapeutic settings against bacterial in

Cheng Lu (South China University of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on synthesizing headful packaging phages, showing functional phages can be synthesized using yeast transformation-associated recombination with only a unit

Eugen Pfeifer (Université Paris-Saclay) and colleagues published a new paper on the impact of cephalosporin antibiotics on gut phages, showing cephalosporins induce phage bursts, mostly of virulent phages, which may help restore microbial d

Brittany Supina (University of Alberta) and colleagues published a new paper on flagella-dependent jumbo phage controlling rice seedling rot, showing a phage that reduces Burkholderia glumae virulence in rice seedlings and depends on bacter

Alexa Fitzpatrick (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a new paper on phage reprogramming of bacterial metabolism, showing two phage proteins increase amino acid and putrescine levels in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to promote efficie

Sada Raza (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a new paper on indigo carmine as an antiphage agent, showing it selectively inactivates DNA phages by binding to their genome and causing capsi

Have you tried PhageTerm? It's a new tool for fast and accurate determination of phage termini and packaging mechanism using next-generation sequencing data.

Unfortunately, funding for the Canadian National Microbiology Lab's Phage Science, Therapeutics, and Research (PhageSTAR) program is ending.

A questionnaire study of 1,098 people in Poland, from the Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy and colleagues, found antibiotic-resistance awareness above 90% but awareness of phage therapy between 8.9% and 39.7% depen

Sandra Morales and Paul Hyman have published a new perspective called "Quis Custodiet? Are Regulations Slowing Phage Therapy?".  In it, they discuss current regulations, recent efficacy trials and support resources in the context of regulat

Josephine Davey-Young (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a new article entitled 'Phage therapy to treat unresponsive infections: A primer for the clinical microbiology laboratory staff'. They describe the need for specific lab

Kat Pick (University of Alberta) and colleagues published a new paper on a novel phage-inducible chromosomal island in E. coli, showing it aids helper phage replication and represses a pathogenicity island.

Landon Getz (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a new paper on integrons as anti-phage defence libraries, showing integrons in Vibrio parahaemolyticus contain diverse anti-phage defence systems, including 9 previously unrecogni

Julia Kelliher (Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico) and colleagues published the outcomes of a recent microbiome data management workshop focused on standardizing reporting guidelines for environmental and host-associated microbiome

Seeking Themus thermophilus HB27 bacteriophages. Dear colleagues, I would greatly appreciate sharing T. thermophilus bacteriophages for my research of thermophilic bacteria anti-phage defence or any advice where I can find them. Please co

The University of California San Francisco is hosting a symposium called Annual Bay Area Microbial Pathogenesis Symposium (BAMPS). The event takes place Saturday, March 22, and aims to bring together researchers interested in microbial pat

The International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) is hosting a conference called Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, taking place October 12-14 2025 in Washington, DC. This inaugural 2.5-day event aims to bri

2026 meeting alert! (Yes, 2026 — these get planned early!) The Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection Keystone Symposium will take place on May 4–7, 2026 in Breckenridge, Colorado. The event aims to expl

Seeking Themus thermophilus HB27 bacteriophages. Dear colleagues, I would greatly appreciate sharing T. thermophilus bacteriophages for my research of thermophilic bacteria anti-phage defence or any advice where I can find them. Please co