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Two new phage bioinformatics tools for you this week: first, a phage host finding tool: link phages and potential hosts by finding shared attachment sites for prophage integration (GitHub), and second, Prophage Hunter: an integrative huntin

A new patent on phage compositions and uses was published this month by Paul Turner, Benjamin Chan and John Wertz. Their invention includes phage compositions and methods to increase antibiotic sensitivity in bacteria, a pharmaceutical comp

This week on #PhageTwitter: a fantastic and informative Twitter thread (with images and videos!) by Patrick R. Secor (@PRSecor) on how filamentous P. aeruginosa phage Pf spontaneously forms liquid crystals in the presence of polymers, which

College Station, Texas Howdy phage enthusiasts! The Center for Phage Technology is currently seeking out new environmental soil and water samples for phage isolation! Direct message the CPT on Twitter if there's something you'd like to send

Betty Kutter & Evergreen Organizers Olympia, WA The 2019 Evergreen Phage Bioinformatics Workshop will consist of three tracks: Genomics with Galaxy & WebApollo; Genomic annotation with PATRIC; and Viromics (metaviromics). Participants are i

The IBRC portal is inspired by the global antibiotic resistance situation & the promising potential phages offer as credible antimicrobial therapeutics. Launched in October 2018, IBRC is a joint effort by Acharya Narendra Dev College (ANDC

A 13-month old infant was successfully treated with phage therapy (English article | Dutch article) post-liver transplant at the Saint-Luc University Hospital in Brussels. Phages were obtained from the Queen Astrid Military Hospital—read mo

The BBC's CrowdScience has done a fantastic podcast interview on phage therapy and phage hunting (31 min), where they travel to Tbilisi, Georgia, visit the Eliava Phage Therapy Center, and go phage-hunting with the scientists there. They ev

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a world-leading non-profit that drives CF research and development, has teamed up with CARB-X, a global partnership investing in antibacterial innovation, in pursuit of a new Infection Research Initiative. Th

A new phage pharmacokinetics paper by Katarzyna Hodyra-Stefaniak and colleagues in Krystyna Dabrowska's group at the Polish Academy of Sciences has demonstrated a "short-circulating phage" phenotype that has implications for engineered phag

The Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, SBRT, a new society in Varanasi, India, is accepting new members. Their goal is to work together as a team for the betterment of bacteriophages and their positive global impact. Find them

The IBRC portal is inspired by the global antibiotic resistance situation & the promising potential phages offer as credible antimicrobial therapeutics. Launched in October 2018, IBRC is a joint effort by Acharya Narendra Dev College (ANDC

You may recall reading about the discovery of arbitrium, a peptide produced by Bacillus phages to regulate lysogeny decisions. A new paper by Avigail Stokar-Avihail and colleagues in the Sorek lab at the Weizmann Institute has shown that ar

The business combination transaction between AmpliPhi and C3J, two phage therapy biotech companies, is expected to close today. The new name of the combined company will be Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and shares will be expected to start

The 26th Biennial Conference on Phage/Virus Assembly is happening July 14-19, 2019 at Cragun's Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota. Registration is open until May 30.

Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc and colleagues from the Sullivan lab at Ohio State University, along with several collaborators from the US, UK, Canada, France, and Belgium, have published a paper this week in Nature Biotechnology describing a

The Eliava Institute is hosting its second Bacteriophage Research and Methodology summer school training course from July 22-Aug 2, 2019, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The course is for master's students, PhD students and young scientists, and cover

Check out two exciting new phage perspectives in mSystems by a couple of key phage scientists: the first, by Jeremy Barr: "Missing a Phage: Unraveling Tripartite Symbioses within the Human Gut", and the second, by Simon Roux: "A Viral Ecoge

How do we translate phage-based applications into clinically- and commercially-viable therapeutics? Join us Sept. 25-26, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium at Kisaco Research's Phage Futures Europe conference! The new agenda is now up, registration

The upcoming PHAGE journal, by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (Editor-in-chief: Martha Clokie), will be launching its inaugural issue in March 2020! The journal covers all aspects of phage biology and is open now for submissions.