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Stanford undergraduate student Aaryan Harshith published a new blog post on his adventures in the Bollyky lab this past year, which led to his independent quest to discover three novel phages in his first year at the bench! This is a fanta

The University of California San Francisco is hosting a symposium called Annual Bay Area Microbial Pathogenesis Symposium (BAMPS). The event takes place Saturday, March 22, and aims to bring together researchers interested in microbial pat

The International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) is hosting a conference called Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, taking place October 12-14 2025 in Washington, DC. This inaugural 2.5-day event aims to bri

2026 meeting alert! (Yes, 2026 — these get planned early!) The Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection Keystone Symposium will take place on May 4–7, 2026 in Breckenridge, Colorado. The event aims to expl

Carolyn Teschke (University of Connecticut), Chuan (River) Xiao (University of Texas at El Paso), and Reza Khayat (City College of New York) are hosting the XXIX Biennial Conference on Phage/Virus Assembly. The event will take place June 1

The Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) is hosting its 74th Annual Conference. CSM will take place June 17-20, 2025 at Université de Montréal, the largest francophone university of Canada. The theme for this year’s meeting is “Microb

The 1st International Symposium on Advances in Phage Therapeutics will take place on June 16-17, 2025, in Braga, Portugal. Organized by experts behind the Viruses of Microbes 2022 Conference, this symposium will focus on the latest develop

Stephen Theriault, CEO of Cytophage, gave a TED Talk on Harnessing Phages to Combat Superbugs, exploring how phages can address antibiotic resistance. A scientist, entrepreneur, and former member of Canada’s Ebola vaccine team, he shares hi

Sabrina Green via X: If anyone has Endotrap kits and wants to share let us know. This is for patient cases.

How long until governments can subscribe to antimicrobials (instead of paying per use), so it will finally be economically viable to develop them? Italy is now the second country (after the UK) to create a path for this! Damiano de Felice a

NIAID has two grants open that fit could fit your phage research! 1) the 2026 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement supports work on infectious diseases, including AMR and countermeasures; 2) the CARBIRUs (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacte

Are you my host? Paul Hyman (Ashland University) published a new paper on methods for linking phages with hosts, showing growth-based, genome sequence-based, and proximity-based approaches each measure different aspects of phage-host intera

Owen Tuck (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a new paper on Hachiman antiphage defense complex, showing Hachiman is a nuclease-helicase complex that senses genome integrity and degrades DNA upon detecting damage,

Susu Jiang, Chau Chen (Shenzhen University Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper on how a phage-encoded kinase phosphorylates multiple host defense systems including DndFGH and CRISPR-Cas to enable infection.

George Wright, Slawomir Michniewski, Eleanor Jameson and Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas describe DepoRanker, a machine-learning algorithm that ranks proteins by their likelihood of being phage depolymerases targeting Klebsiella capsular polysa

Indigo carmine, an FDA-approved food additive, selectively inactivated DNA phages (P001, T4, T1, T7, lambda) but not the RNA phage MS2, by binding double-stranded DNA and causing genome ejection from the capsid; under optimal conditions (50

A binary-interaction screen identified coelichelin, a siderophore secreted by Streptomyces sp., as a metabolite that sensitizes its soil competitor Bacillus subtilis to lytic phages (SPO1, SP10, SP50, Goe2) by sequestering iron and preventi

This review surveys phage genomics, phage–host interactions, and medical and biotechnological applications, including mechanisms and therapeutic uses in infections involving virus–bacteria interactions. www.mdpi.com

PHIStruct is a multilayer perceptron that uses SaProt structure-aware embeddings of receptor-binding proteins to predict hosts among the ESKAPEE genera. The study provides its experimental data and source code on GitHub. Oxford Academic / P

Jimmy Mayer has donated £4 million to rename and expand the University of Leicester's Centre for Phage Research, now called The Becky Mayer Centre for Phage Research.