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Cytophage Technologies, a Canadian phage biotech company, is about to start testing on animals a throat and nasal spray that would stop infection by COVID-19 and its variants. The idea is that the synthetic phage in their spray will stimula

Dann Turner (University of the West of England) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses entitled A Roadmap for Genome-Based Phage Taxonomy. See also this Twitter thread by Evelien Adriaenssens.

Carol Zhou (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and colleagues published a new paper in G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics entitled MultiPhATE2: Code for functional annotation and comparison of phage genomes.

Danish Malik (Loughborough University) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Opinion in Biotechnology showing current approaches for manufacture, formulation, targeted delivery and controlled release of phage-based therapeutics.

Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbiome showing how a hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome revealed a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and vi

Earlier this month we hosted PHAVES #13, a talk by Prof. Jonathan Iredell, who shared his group's experience with phage therapy at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. Here's the recording, along with a recap by

Steven Sutcliffe (McGill University), Michael Shamash and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing how common medications lead to prophage induction in human gut bacteria. They tested anti-inflammatory, chemotherapy, mild analges

Ahmad Hassan (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and University of Guelph) and colleagues published a new review on phages as both friends and foes in therapeutic and biocontrol applications. They first detail the reasons for the antimicrobia

Milan Gerovac (University of Würzburg, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio — they used Grad-seq (gradient profiling by sequencing) to get a comprehensive view of RNA and protein complexes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa under st

Karishma Bisht (Texas Tech University) and colleagues published a new paper in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes showing the impact of temperature-dependent phage expression on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation. Their work suggests that p

Phage has made the Washington Post! The article, written by Daphne Miller, a clinical professor at UCSF, describes how most viruses around us are benign, while some are lifesaving. She interviews Saima Aslam, Paul Turner, and Ken Cadwell ab

The Barrick Lab at the University of Texas at Austin has an open NIH-funded position for a postdoctoral fellow in the area of phage engineering and experimental evolution.

Sandro Sulakvelidze, CEO of Intralytix, talks phages for food poisoning in this podcast episode by Gastropod entitled 'Phage against the machine'. Gastropod looks at food through the lens of science and history.

Phage Directory (& friends) are now on Clubhouse! This is a new app for drop-in audio-only discussions around a topic. It's still only for iPhone users, and requires an invite, so ask around (or ask us!) if you need one. We've now hosted tw

We attended Kisaco Research's Phage Futures Congress 2021 at the end of February, and now present our recap of the event. We hope to provide a window into what you missed, and/or a refresher if you were there! The third annual Phage Futures

This issue was sponsored by Kisaco Research for Phage Futures 2021.

The Hohenheim Center for Livestock Microbiome Research (HoLMiR) is looking for young investigators interested in the field of phage-bacteria-animal interaction to research strategies towards phage-related topics for sustainable animal produ

The Quadram Institute of Biosciences (Norwich, UK) is inviting applications for the post of bioinformatician to join the Gut Microbes and Health Programme, to work with vast datasets of metagenomic sequence data and gain experience with cut

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (Gaithersburg, Maryland) is hiring for several roles, including microbiologists, software engineers, manufacturing & more!

The Mimee Lab at the University of Chicago is hiring a research specialist to participate in scientific research projects (including phage work). The Mimee lab develops strategies to engineer the microbiome, investigating genetic design of