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"As a specialist in infectious diseases, I have been interested in phage therapy as long as I can remember, but only recently have I felt comfortable saying this out loud." - Dr. David Pride, UCSD. Read more about his perspective in this ar

Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life is the memoir of Mallory Smith, whose story inspired us to create Phage Directory. It comes out next week (Mar 12). Mallory was set to receive phage therapy in November 2017 after a Burkholderia cepacia i

If you know anyone who hasn't heard Tom and Steffanie's story yet, here's an in-depth podcast interview with them on the Super Awesome Science Show that you can share. It also goes into phage use in the livestock industry in an interview wi

Texas A&M University is a major hub of phage research, and the Center for Phage Technology there is the only state-funded phage research center in the US. Learn about the center and their involvement in Tom Patterson's phage therapy case he

Filter results of BLAST analysis by viral host species with this new tool: VHost-Classifier, created by Ezra Kitson and Curtis Suttle. (Paper / Github)

Marco Cafora and colleagues have developed a zebrafish model of cystic fibrosis and used it to show that phage therapy can treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa (and modulate immune response in the fish). This is the first time that phage therapy ha

Check out this exciting new preprint from the Banfield lab and colleagues. They sequenced DNA from diverse ecosystems and found HUNDREDS of huge phage genomes (up to 716 kbp). The phages they found encode lots of new things phages don't typ

The 2019 Evergreen Bacteriophage Meeting, taking place Aug 4-9, 2019 in Olympia, Washington, is now open for registration! If you work with phages, this iconic biennial (once per 2 years) meeting is not to be missed! *COMING SOON: We're he

We're less than two weeks away from another exciting translational phage conference! The Bacteriophage Therapy Summit will take place in Boston, Massachusetts March 25-27, 2019. The meeting will focus on the discovery, translation and acce

New feature! We're adding commenting on Capsid & Tail articles. Visit this issue on our website (or any other issue) and scroll to the bottom to comment!

Listen to Dr. Minmin Yen, co-founder & CEO of the new biotech startup PhagePro, discuss her company's goals of preventing cholera with phages on the podcast "Important, Not Important". An especially great listen for grad students & postdocs

Want to learn to analyze your (phage) genomes? The PATRIC/RAST teams will be offering a tutorial at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL from Apr 16-18, 2019. Email Lisa Hundley to sign up (hurry, workshop is free BUT l

Cherry canker is a devastating tree disease that could one day be treated by phages. Learn about the work George Sundin's lab at Michigan State University is doing to make this a reality!

More phage defense systems?? (And a great article title!) Check out this new paper on Gordonia phages by Matthew T. Montgomery and colleagues in the Hatfull lab.

This summer, a new phage journal, PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research, will be launched by the publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., and the editor in chief will be Dr. Martha Clokie!

The 4th International Hands-on Phage Biotechnology Course takes place June 17-21, 2019 in Braga, Portugal. Learn theory and techniques for studying phage-host interaction and performing phage genetic manipulation. Registration is now open!

If you want to better understand the funds available for AMR drug development, here's a slideshow from a talk given this week by John Rex of the Wellcome Trust. It explains what's available, the different funding models that exist, provides

The Bacteriophage Biology and Therapeutics Special Interest Group is part of the Australian Society for Microbiology. Their goal is to promote collaborative phage work in and outside Australia, so especially if you do phage work in the area

This week, several exciting new papers on the evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems were published. One, by Amelia McKitterick and colleagues from the Seed lab at UC Berkeley, shows how a phage-encoded CRISPR-Cas system interferes with an anti-ph

Dr. Krystyna Dabrowska of the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy at the Polish Academy of Sciences has just published a systematic and critical review of the phage pharmacokinetics and bioavailability literature (spanning 1924