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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 sequenced the whole genome of four lytic phages against carbapenem-resistan

Piotr Tynecki I'm working on a deep learning-based analysis of phage genomes considering their lytic/lysogenic potential. I'm looking for complete phage genome sequences in FASTA format with lytic/lysogenic labels that have been confirmed b

Muhammad Akmal I am Muhammad Akmal, working as a Lecturer at the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan since July 2014, where I also received my Bachelors and Masters degrees

Sian Owen Cambridge, MA I'm a postdoc at Harvard Medical School researching a novel phage-immunity system in Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium. I’m looking for characterised (and ideally genome sequenced/published) phages infecting S. Typ

Tobi Nagel Oakland, CA Hi phage community! Do you have any old micropipettes that you're ready to get rid of? If so, Phages for Global Health regularly needs micropipette donations for our laboratory training workshops in Africa. We could u

Check out the 17 new labs we just added to Phage Directory! We just made our signup process faster, so if you've thought about signing up your lab, now's the time!

Phage Futures Congress (January 29-30, 2019) is fast-approaching! Speakers include representatives of the FDA (Scott Stibitz, Cara Fiore), biotech (Xavier Duportet, Carl Merril), academia (Martha Clokie, Betty Kutter, Steffanie Strathdee) a

Mark your calendars for another exciting translational phage conference! The Bacteriophage Therapy Summit will take place in Boston, Massachusetts March 26-27, 2019. The meeting will focus on the discovery, translation and acceleration of p

The American Society for Microbiology will host ASM Microbe 2019 in San Francisco June 20-24, and the abstract submission deadline is Jan. 15, 2019—submit yours here!

Did you know ASM has a phage group called Division M?. Members are invited to attend Division M's Business Meeting on June 21 at 5 PM (at ASM Microbe 2019) for food, drinks and (phage) conversation!

Not one but TWO interesting new phage methods papers have just been published by KU Leuven researchers. The first, by Hanne Hendrix et al. details how to screen for growth-inhibitory proteins made by phages. The second, by Jeroen De Smet et

Have a question or request for the phage community? Post it here and reach > 200 phage enthusiasts spanning academia, industry, medicine, and beyond. Feel free to be creative about what you might ask! (e.g. collaborations, advice, seeking o

On New Year's Eve, we got a request for Citrobacter phages to treat a sea turtle's antibiotic-resistant shell infection. If you can help, please email staff@phage.directory! Update: THANK YOU to the labs of @GroseLab of BYU, @RandallJDeJon

Justin Silpe and Bonnie Bassler discovered that a Vibrio cholerae phage senses its host’s quorum sensing molecules and lyses only when enough hosts are present in the surrounding area. By engineering this system, they got phages to lyse in

A large group of leaders in the phage community and beyond has published a set of minimum standards that should be reported alongside any new, uncultivated viral sequence. If more of the community adopts these standards, it will be easier f

Congratulations to Jesca Nakavuma and her team of phage researchers in Uganda for winning an $800,000 grant from the African Union. The grant will support their development of phage products combating antibiotic resistant bacteria in fish.

Christian Møller-Olsen et al. just published an article in Scientific Reports showing that an E. coli phage can kill its host intracellularly, and that it kills more efficiently when human bladder epithelial cells are present. This corrobor

The dairy industry has historically seen phages as a threat to productions, but Samuel D. Alcaine, a Cornell professor researching dairy fermentations, makes the point here that phages could also be beneficial to the industry.

Lytic phages are usually thought to be best for therapy, but this recent review by Rodrigo Monteiro et al. makes a case for giving temperate phages a second look.

Sarah Kronheim et al. published a paper in Nature this week on a new mechanism of chemical phage defense in Streptomyces. Here's a News and Views piece by Martha Clokie and an Ars Technica piece on the work.