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The Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV have published an update of taxonomy changes from 2020-2021 in Archives of Virology. They've created or redefined a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 su

This week, we’re highlighting the three features we published in August! We've got a reflection on African phage scientists' challenges and progress by Raphael Hans Lwesya, a reflection (plus stats!) on Evergreen 2021 (including how to acce

Karen Weynberg (Australian Centre for Ecogenomics) is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise on phage research to work for 6-month on full-time basis or a 1-year on part-time basis. Interested candidates may contact he

For PHAVES #21, Aël Hardy, PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, will give a talk entitled 'Molecular multitasking: inhibition of phage infection by aminoglycoside antibiotics' on September 7 at 6PM CEST! Register here! (If you'

Thanks so much to all who joined us for our very first Phage Phun hour this week! We'll be hosting these monthly, at alternating times (9AM Pacific, then 3PM Pacific, repeating) on the last Wednesday of each month! Next month will be Wed, S

US phage biotech company Intralytix received a Fast Track NIH SBIR contract to develop a universal, scale-independent AI-based platform for manufacturing high titer phage preparations for clinical applications. Intralytix will receive a Pha

Michael Shamash (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues published a perspective in ISME Journal on phages in the infant gut. They propose a theoretical framework governing early childhood gut virome assembly and development, which depend

Nicole Rutbeek (University of Manitoba, Canada) and colleagues published a research article in JBC on the molecular mechanism of quorum sensing inhibition in Streptococcus by the phage protein paratox. They demonstrated an example of conver

Michael Roach (Flinders University) and colleagues published a new paper in F1000 Research entitled Philympics: Prophage Predictions Perplex Programs. They present a library of gold-standard bacterial genome annotations that include manuall

Kristopher Kieft (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) published a paper in Cell Reports on virus-associated organosulfur metabolism in human and environmental systems. They reported the discovery of 39 gene families involved in organosulf

This week, we're featuring a guest post by Joshua Borin, a UC San Diego PhD Candidate. Joshua takes us behind his recent PNAS paper on how coevolutionary phage training leads to improved phage infectivity. Before he discovered bacteriophage

The labs of John Kenny (Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland) and Jennifer Mahony (University College Cork, Ireland) are looking for a PhD student to investigate the application of phage therapy in pigs.

We had so much fun with you all at the 'Phage Phun' sessions at Evergreen, that we've decided to incorporate these at the end of each month for the phage community at large! Our first 'Phage Phun' session will be this coming Wednesday, Aug

Rebecca Wattam of PATRIC (alongside Ramy Aziz) taught an incredibly helpful phage genome annotation workshop at the Evergreen phage meeting earlier this month. Did you know Rebecca has also created a Coursera course on Bacterial Bioinformat

Phages for Global Health and their phage development work in Africa was covered in this C&EN Chemical Engineering News piece. It gets into what prompted Tobi Nagel to start PGH, and illustrates some exciting agricultural phage work they're

Daniel Gelman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in The Lancet Microbe entitled Clinical Phage Microbiology: a suggested framework and recommendations for the in-vitro matching steps of phage therapy. This

Janina Rahlff (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and colleagues published a paper in Nature Communications on how lytic archaeal viruses infect abundant primary producers in Earth’s crust. They used a combination of metagenomics and a

Sooyeon Song (Pennsylvania State Universtiy, Pennsylvania) and colleagues published a preprint on how CRISPR-Cas controls cryptic prophages. They demonstrated that the E. coli CRISPR-Cas system is active and inhibits its nine defective prop

Xiaoqing Wang (Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, China) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage resistance mechanisms increase colistin sensitivity in Acinetobacter baumannii.

Xu Peng (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) is looking for a postdoc to work on CRISPR and anti-CRISPR of phages and archaeal viruses. Interested candidates may email the PI at peng@bio.ku.dk or DM her on Twitter (@XuPeng01770032).