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The Texas Medical Center (TMC) Digestive Diseases Center 12th Frontiers in Digestive Diseases Symposium “Phages, Viruses, and Digestive Diseases” will take place Saturday, March 6, 2021, 8 am CST – 1:45 pm CST. Event Organizers: Mary K. Est

Thanks to all who attended 2021 Phage Futures Congress last week! The conference conducted a Young Researchers Poster Competition, and announced the four finalists on the last day. Congratulations to: - Carmen Gu Liu (Baylor College of Med

We are in search for Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage PaP3, it was described by Fuquan Hu’s lab but myself and Prof. Gino Cingolani haven’t received a reply from them. Hope you can help us find this prophage or a similar one to this and LUZ24 (

BCM TAILΦR Labs (Tailored Antibacterials and Innovative Laboratories for phage (Φ) Research) and a team of their collaborators was awarded a 7.5 million dollar U19 grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Congrats

Martin Jahn and colleagues recently published an interesting paper on the lifestyle of phages of marine sponges by host prediction and correlative microscopy. They used a new correlative in situ imaging approach (‘PhageFISH-CLEM‘) to locali

Luis Camarillo-Guerrero (Wellcome Sanger Insititute) and colleagues published a paper on the prevalence of viral diversity in the human gut, along with a new Gut Phage Database (142,809 non-redundant gut phage genomes from 28,060 metagenome

Few have explored how phages affect bacteria associated with winemaking. Cécile Philippe (University of Bordeaux, France) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology on the characterization of the first virulent phages

Varun Rakeshbhai Bavda (IISER, India) and colleagues published a new article on the molecular properties of mycobacteriophage D29 Holin, with an emphasis on potential for holin engineering. They demonstrated crucial amino acid regions for h

PHAVES #13 will be a seminar with Prof. Jonathan Iredell, MBBS, PhD of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research and University of Sydney on Wed, March 10 at 8AM AEDT (Tues, March 9 at 4PM Eastern Time/10PM CET). He will give a talk entit

We are urgently seeking Bacillus simplex phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By receiving the strain

This week, we're highlighting the four feature articles we published in February: an interview with Richard Alm of CARB-X, part two of our State of Phage survey results, and a recap of the three phage events we hosted last week, written by

Armata Pharmaceuticals is hiring an associate scientist to evaluate existing engineering methods and devise new ones to build improved phages as needed for clinical development. The work will involve genetically altering phages and their h

The Koskella lab at UC Berkeley is hiring a postdoc to explore bacteria-phage dynamics over both short (monthly) and long (yearly) time scales to better understand the ecology and evolution of phage host range, the scale of phage adaptation

Sensei Bio (Maryland, USA) is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company with an initial focus on treatments for cancer. Their proprietary ImmunoPhage platform is a powerful, self-adjuvanted and highly differentiated immunotherapy approach desi

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia gladioli phages for a patient in Germany. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By receiving the s

The Bacteriophage Therapy Summit returns virtually on March 23-25 to provide you with an unrivalled opportunity to hear first-hand from leading drug developers, regulators, academics and clinical researchers and engage in the most comprehen

Locus Biosciences (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) is hiring a Scientist for its Phage Discovery and Cocktail Optimization team.

PhagePro is a Boston-based, preclinical phage biotech startup focused on helping the world’s most vulnerable communities. They're looking for a part-time Research Technician to support their R&D team.

Good things…. come to those who wait. It is now evident that corona will continue to disrupt our plans to share science and meet at VoM Portugal yet again this year. The local organizers of the upcoming VoM conferences and the ISVM board ha

We are excited to announce that the Viruses of Microbes 2024 meeting will be held in Cairns, Australia! Being situated on the shores of the Great Barrier Reef and surrounded by the oldest rainforest on Earth, Cairns will host a truly unique