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Thanks to all who came out to hear from Dr. Gina Suh and John Haverty for PHAVES #20 last week! Gina and John graciously shared their combined 'doctor-patient experience' with phage therapy — such an enlightening session! Recording now avai

BCM TAILOR Labs created a video that explains how clinicians can apply for expanded access or compassionate-use approval of phage therapy in the US through the FDA.

Yue Liu (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands) and colleagues published a new preprint investigating a phenomenon where massive numbers of lipid-engulfed tailless phage particles are released from Lactococcus lactis without causing

Most lysogeny-associated adaptations are through new gene acquisition, but prophages can also insert into functional genes and impart a benefit by disrupting their expression ('active lysogeny'). Christopher Marshall (Marquette University,

CRISPR-Cas12j is a recently identified family of miniature RNA-guided endonucleases from phages. Arturo Carabias (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new Nature Communications paper on the structure of CRISPR-Cas12j3. This

It's recently been discovered that during replication, some jumbo phages (genomes > 200 kb) establish complex subcellular organization within their host. Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak (University of California San Diego) and colleagues published

Joshua Kirsch (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new review in Annual Review of Virology on phage-bacteria interactions in the gut, from invertebrates to mammals. They discuss diverse interactions, includ

This week, Kyle Jackson (PhD student at McMaster University) brings us a profile of Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, the clinical-stage phage biotech company commercializing the US Navy's phage collection. This is the first in a new column Kyle

Intralytix (Columbia, MD) is seeking a bioprocess engineer to work on upstream generation of phage-based products in bacterial systems, including concentration/purification of phages, and drying of phage cocktails into solid format.

A new ESCMID Study Group that will deal with phage therapy has been created: the ESCMID Study Group for Non-traditional Antibacterial Therapy (ESGNTA). ESGNTA aims to explore non-traditional antibacterials including phage and phage-related

ASM Microbe 2022 will be held on June 9-13, 2022 in Washington, DC. This is the biggest microbiology conference in the world, and we strongly believe that there should be a session dedicated to phage therapy, which we would like to propose

Africa Phage Forum #5 will be a talk entitled 'Shaping P. aeruginosa phages by genome engineering' by Diana Priscila Pires, PhD, postdoc researcher at CEB - Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. Join us Fr

You can now watch the recording of PHAVES #19: Phage therapy for difficult-to-treat infections in children, with Dr. Ameneh Khatami here on the Phage Directory YouTube channel — PHAVES playlist. Thanks to everyone who came out for this even

Phage Phridays on Clubhouse released this recording of last week's conversation with Josh Borin from the Meyer lab at UCSD, wherein they discuss his PNAS paper titled "Coevolutionary phage training leads to greater bacterial suppression and

Biochimpharm, a Georgian phage biotech company, has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the EU and the United Nations FAO to support production of PowerPhage, a phage cocktail product that targets Salmonella, E. coli and Shigella, for veteri

Microviridae (a family of tiny ssDNA phages) tend to dominate human viromes, yet little is known about them. Paul Kirchberger (UT Austin) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how microviruses encode defensive hypervariabl

Luke Hillary (Bangor University, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how diverse soil RNA viral communities have the potential to influence grassland ecosystems across multiple trophic levels. They ide

Yicheng Xie (Texas A&M) and colleagues published a research article in Frontiers in Microbiology on differential phage efficacy in controlling Salmonella in cattle hide and soil models. They found that phage ability to plaque on a bacterial

Daniela Staquicini (Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS on the design and proof of concept of two phage-based, cold-free COVID-19 vaccination strategies. They show that aerosol vaccination wi

From the Center for Phage Technology, via Twitter: "Are you interested in attending a potential 1-day workshop and training session on the use of the CPT's Galaxy-Apollo platform for phage genome annotation? The workshop would likely run in