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Phages for Global Health has announced a call for applications for its first West Africa Phage Workshop, which will take place July 7 - 20, 2019, at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Apply now!

Review in Cell Host & Microbe by Kortright, Chan, Koff and Turner (Yale) on the history of phage therapy and why it is regaining interest as multidrug-resistant infections rise. It compares phage therapy with chemical antibiotics and their

Heather Hendrickson Auckland, New Zealand Phage Friends! We need help! We have processed over 300 soil samples looking for phages on Paenibacillus larvae... (the bee pathogen) here in NZ. Have you ever looked SO HARD for a phage and not fou

The 4th annual OSU Viromics Workshop is May 8-10, 2019. The workshop kicks off with a mini-symposium, then introduces students and postdocs (and possibly early career faculty) to the informatics tools available to develop biological underst

Guy Schleyer and colleagues published a new paper on "in-plaque" mass spec imaging to visualize what happens during (algal) viral infection. Here's the original paper and a blog post on the work.

Robert Edwards and (many!) colleagues have published an exciting new preprint on the phylogeography and evolution of crAssphage around the world.

Anushila Chatterjee and colleagues published a new preprint showing that phage resistance in enterococci leads to reduced antibiotic resistance and reduced mouse gut colonization.

Heather Hendrickson Auckland, New Zealand Phage Friends! We need help! We have processed over 300 soil samples looking for phages on Paenibacillus larvae... (the bee pathogen) here in NZ. Have you ever looked SO HARD for a phage and not fou

A perspective on phage therapy as an anti-superbug option in India.

The UK government is making some new plans to tackle antibiotic resistance, including new incentives for pharma.

Ampliphi Biosciences just published new pre-clinical data on its anti-Staphylococcus aureus phage cocktail.

At Phage Futures 2019, Kisaco offered attendees access to speakers' slides through an exit survey. We also ran a three-question survey about the kinds of events readers wanted to attend. Our 2019 survey is now closed; current site feedback

NIAID just issued a request for comments and suggestions on its Antibacterial Resistance Research Framework. Details: NIAID laid out 7 approaches for tackling AMR in 2014 (including exploring phage therapy!), and they're updating these appr

Voting in the ISVM (International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms) elections is open NOW through Feb 3! Check out the candidate bios here and vote here.

We are still seeking Citrobacter phages to treat a sea turtle's antibiotic-resistant shell infection. If you can help, please email staff@phage.directory! Progress so far: Good news! At least one phage active against the turtle's Citrobact

Gunaraj Dhungana Kathmandu, Nepal My name is Gunaraj Dhungana, I'm a Ph.D scholar from the central Department of Biotechnology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. We have been working on the characterization and preparation of a phage bank to est

Phage Futures 2019 is next week! Even if you're not able to make it, we'll be posting tweets (#PhageFutures2019) and keeping you up to date on which speaker is speaking, what people's reactions are, and who's up next. Check out our Phage Fu

Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC is now recruiting patients for a randomized, controlled, double-blind, Phase 1/2a phage therapy trial. The goal: test the safety and efficacy of Intralytix's EcoActive phage collection on intestinal AIEC (adherent

Dr. Saima Aslam and colleagues at IPATH / UCSD School of Medicine and Ampliphi Biosciences report on their use of IV phage therapy to treat biofilms associated with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). This is now a protocol guiding cli

Phage scientists! It's time for the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM) elections. If you're a member, you can run for: President-elect, Vice-President, Secretary, Secretary Assistant, Treasurer, or Private Partnershi