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The Centre of Microbiome Science (Ohio State University) is organizing a Viromics workshop webinar series (virtual) on October 13-15, 2021. The workshop will cover virus identification and classification tools, and virus databases. See the

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

African Phage Forum (APF) is hosting the sixth session of their webinar series on September 24 at 7 AM EAT/9 AM PDT. Guest speaker Dr. Ivan Liachko will be presenting his talk on "Culture-Free Assembly and Host-Attribution of Phage Genomes

Marion Bichet (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a protocol in Star Protocols for studying phage interactions with in vitro epithelial cell layers. They developed a simplified method for high-titer phage purification an

Graça Pinto (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a research article in FEMS Microbiology ecology on the interactions of phage ace and shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during biocontrol. This work demonstrated that

Andrzej Zielezinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and colleagues published a new preprint describing PHIST, a fast and accurate prediction of prokaryotic hosts from metagenomic viral sequences.

Ian Rambo (University of Texas Austin) and colleagues published a preprint on unique viruses that infect Archaea related to eukaryotes. Here they characterized seven viral genomes that infected Lokiarchaeota, Helarchaeota, and Thorarchaeota

Aisling Brady (University of Glasgow, UK) and colleagues published a review article in Annual Reviews of Microbiology on the molecular basis of lysis–lysogeny decisions in Gram-positive phages. They discuss a variety of mechanisms and the g

The next Phage Phun session will be Wednesday September 29 at 3PM Pacific (an Australian friendly time!). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the Director of the Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases service, will give talk entitled 'Clinical phage therapy: L

In our July PHAVES series, Dr. Ameneh Khatami, a paediatric infectious disease physician and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, spoke about phage therapy for difficult to treat infections in children. Here’s the recording, along w

The Silveira Lab at the University of Miami, Florida is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate to study the tripartite relationships between phage-bacteria interactions in coral reef.

The Taylor Group at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark is hiring a Research Assistant for 4 months, to then continue as a PhD fellow for 3 years. This position will use cryo-electron microscopy combined with functional techniques to stud

Submit your next paper to PHAGE journal's upcoming Phage Informatics and AI special issue! They're looking to publish novel phage bioinformatics tools, AI in phage biology and therapy, and tools for host discovery and prediction, phage char

The Moniruzzaman lab at the University of Miami, Florida is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2022 to study giant virus ecology and evolution through experimental and bioinformatic approaches. Please send an email detailing your interest

The Mayo Clinic is seeking candidates for a faculty position to develop, study and test gene therapy approaches for clinical indications and translate those findings into human testing. Examples of research areas include: Gene replacement u

#Women_in_Bacteriophage will start recruiting social media coordinator volunteers. If you are interested, send an email to: womeninphage@gmail.com or talk to Fatma via Twitter.

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

African Phage Forum (APF) is hosting the sixth session of their webinar series on September 24 at 7 AM EAT/9 AM PDT. Guest speaker Dr. Ivan Liachko will be presenting his talk on "Culture-Free Assembly and Host-Attribution of Phage Genomes

Stephanie Lynch will host the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday September 29 at 3PM Pacific (an Australian friendly time!). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed u