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This just in! Videos of many of the 2017 Evergreen International Phage Meeting's talks are now online. Register for the 2019 meeting here.

If you want to better understand US laws affecting the development of prescription drugs, and the roles and responsibilities of the FDA, edX (HarvardX) is running an online course called The FDA and Prescription Drugs: Current Controversies

Announcing a new series of hands-on phage (meta)genomics workshops at this year's Evergreen International Phage Meeting! Workshops will take place Sat, Aug 3, 4-6 pm and 7-9 pm, and Sun, Aug 4, 9-11 am. An open phage genomics and metagenomi

Johanna Sweere and colleagues just published a very exciting paper today in Science! A temperate filamentous phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa dampens the immune response against P. aeruginosa, which leads to increased P. aeruginosa virulence

TU Delft has just opened a new phage library (Fagenbank) for phage therapy. If you have phages you'd like to see used in medical treatments, reach out to Fagenbank by email at fagenbank@tudelft.nl. This library is an initiative by Dr. Stan

A Canadian cystic fibrosis patient is looking to become the first in Canada to receive phage therapy. He currently seeks phages for his Burkholderia cepacia infection, and his doctors will have to convince Health Canada to give this a try.

Sooyeon Song and colleagues have published a new paper showing that E. coli employs both active (lytic and temperate) and inactive phages (a cryptic prophage) to discriminate between nearby strains and control cell-cell contact according to

virMine is a new phage bioinformatics tool by Andrea Garretto and colleagues at Loyola University of Chicago. Use virMine to identify viral genomes from raw reads representative of viral or mixed (viral and bacterial) communities. Paper | G

We've been interviewed on the What Matters with Steven Brantley podcast! We talk antibiotic resistance, phage therapy, and Phage Directory. Listen here (64 min).

Save the date! The 23rd biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting will be held in Olympia, WA Aug. 4-9, 2019. The organizers are in the process of selecting ~20 invited keynote speakers. Nominate speakers until Sept. 30! Please includ

Phage Futures 2019 “super early bird pricing” ends today, Nov. 2 (Note: the student rate will still available until Nov. 30). Get 10% off with this code: PHDI10. Also, the organizers just announced that they're accepting poster submissions

Benler and colleagues at San Diego State University published a new paper that shows that diversity-generating retroelements (which lead to hypervariable proteins) are present in many prophages found in bacteria that live in the human gut.

Dr. Eleanor Jameson has an opening for a PhD student to study the role of phages in the gut microbiome at the University of Warwick. Apply here!

33,000: the number of deaths in Europe caused by antibiotic-resistant infections in 2015. Surprisingly, this new study found that 1/3 of these deaths were in Italy.

How much should we worry about phage-induced spreading of antibiotic resistance? This review by Clara Torres-Barceló lays out some contrasting viewpoints and data on the matter.

A high school sci-comm intern at the Innovative Genomics Institute developed Phage Invaders, a game where you control Cas9 to defend the city of Bacterium against viral infection. Try it here! Also, Jennifer Doudna is challenging others to

How big is the market for bacteriophage products? One group estimates that number to be $567.9 million USD.

Buzzfeed made an excellent mini documentary on phage therapy (~15 min), and it’s on Netflix! It’s part of a series called “Follow This” and it features both Ben Chan and Steffanie Strathdee.

Another US patient has been successfully treated with phages. This is thanks to Ben Chan at Yale, who found, prepared and provided the phages for a 23-year-old woman with Cystic Fibrosis.

Martha Clokie has an exciting, fully-funded PhD opportunity to work on soil phages in collaboration with APS Biocontrol Ltd. Apply by Jan. 6, 2019.