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The Burroughs-Wellcome fund has announced a grant to fund study of the interplay between human and microbial biology. The deadline is November 15, 2019. Perhaps phage researchers studying phage interactions with the microbiome/pathogens/hum

Here’s a great example of the phage community helping each other out on Twitter — thanks to Stephen Stockdale of APC Microbiome (@SteveStockyPhD) and Simon Roux of the Joint Genome Institute (@simroux_virus) for providing answers! #### Her

Where did our gut virome originate? A team of 117 authors (from 75 labs & 60 countries), led by Rob Edwards (SDSU) and Bas Dutilh (Utrecht University), has published an impressive new crAssphage study in Nature Microbiology showing how glob

Harald Brüssow, guest editor of the recently completed "Hurdles for Phage Therapy to Become a Reality" issue of Viruses, has written an editorial on the work (30 papers) published in the issue. His take-home lessons for optimizing phage the

How do we inactivate phages after they’ve served their purpose? Here’s a new review by Julia Sommer and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Austria, which goes over the effectiveness of different phage inactivation produc

The first Phages for Global Health Phage Workshop in West Africa started this week! This 2-week lab training workshop is hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Participants from 6 countries (Benin, Cote d

PHAGES in Grenoble will take place on October 8-9, 2019 at the Institute for Structural Biology, on the EPN (European Photon & Neutron Campus) campus in Grenoble. This is the fifth phage symposium organized by PHAGES.fr. Its objective is to

Anca Segall, Dwayne Roach and Steffanie Strathdee recently published a perspective on phage-antibiotic synergy. They conclude that co-treatment with phages and antibiotics has the potential to extend the utility of antibiotics currently in

Harald Brüssow, guest editor of the recently completed "Hurdles for Phage Therapy to Become a Reality" issue of Viruses, has written an editorial on the work (30 papers) published in the issue. His take-home lessons for optimizing phage the

Where did our gut virome originate? A team of 117 authors (from 75 labs & 60 countries), led by Rob Edwards (SDSU) and Bas Dutilh (Utrecht University), has published an impressive new crAssphage study in Nature Microbiology showing how glob

How do we inactivate phages after they’ve served their purpose? Here’s a new review by Julia Sommer and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Austria, which goes over the effectiveness of different phage inactivation produc

PHAGES in Grenoble will take place on October 8-9, 2019 at the Institute for Structural Biology, on the EPN (European Photon & Neutron Campus) campus in Grenoble. This is the fifth phage symposium organized by PHAGES.fr. Its objective is to

The first Phages for Global Health Phage Workshop in West Africa started this week! This 2-week lab training workshop is hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Participants from 6 countries (Benin, Cote d

## Phage Directory, expanded Dear phage fans, You may have noticed some improvements and differences around the site, and we have some exciting news to share! We've heard lots of feedback over the past year, and we've made some additions

The winner of the Microbiology Society’s 2019 Fleming Prize for outstanding research is Prof. Peter Fineran, Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Watch Prof. Fineran’s award talk on phage resistance systems here.

The International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya has partnered with the Université Laval in Canada to develop phage products against Salmonella to treat poultry in Kenya. The project is funded by Canada’s International Development Re

Nicolas Dufour of the Institut Pasteur and colleagues have shown that lysis of E. coli by phages in mice (as a treatment for pneumonia) did not increase innate inflammatory responses compared to an antibiotic treatment.

##### Call for Posters for Phage Futures Europe, Brussels, September 25-26 Looking to showcase your recent work to the phage therapy community? Phage Futures Europe is accepting abstract submissions for poster presentations. Your poster wil

Mian Li Ooi and colleagues at the University of Adelaide and Ampliphi Biosciences published a paper on their use of phage therapy in a phase I clinical trial to treat patients with chronic rhinosinusitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The

Sociovirology is the study of conflict, cooperation and communication of viruses. To get up to speed on this rapidly advancing new field, check out this news feature in Nature by Elie Doglin.