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Fernando Gordillo Altamirano (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Microbiology showing that phage-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are resensitized to antimicrobials. They found that phage-resistant

Duhita Sant (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution showing that host diversity slows phage adaptation by selecting generalists over specialists. These findings support the evolution

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a new paper in Molecular Cell showing how a phage-encoded anti-activator inhibits quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

The NCTC in England has freshly re-characterized 100 phages originally collected for bacterial typing in the 1950s-1990s. If you want your phages to last as long as these, this is a great place to deposit! The National Collection of Type Cu

The University of Georgia is hiring an assistant professor of Microbial Systems Biology.

In celebration of our 100th issue of Capsid & Tail, we launched a survey called State of Phage 2020! We created this survey to help us all better understand the phage research community globally, including what kind of phages people are col

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

Vysnova (Silver Spring, MD) is seeking a highly qualified and motivated Research Technician III - Bacteriophage Therapeutics to work on a WRAIR contract.

The fifth iVoM event will be Thursday, January 21, 4pm GMT, and the theme will be "Agro-food, veterinary and environmental biotechnology applications". It will feature talks by: Sam R. Nugen - Department of Food Science and Technology, Co

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting its next phage webinar in its series, Feb 15 at 4pm GMT / 11am Eastern with special guest Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, who will give a talk entitled Basics of phage genome annotation and classification - how t

PHAVES #11 will be a casual mixer to kick off the new year! We'll get together on Zoom January 12 at 11:00 AM Eastern. We'll start off with a bit of an "open mic" / "show and tell", where attendees will have the option to share something th

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting a new phage webinar series, starting Jan. 14 at 11AM EST (4PM GMT) with special guest Dr. Paul Turner. Dr. Turner will give a talk entitled 'From the environment to bedside: understanding the basics of phag

The fifth iVoM event will be Thursday, January 21, 4pm GMT, and the theme will be "Agro-food, veterinary and environmental biotechnology applications". It will feature talks by: Sam R. Nugen - Department of Food Science and Technology, Co

The TAILOR team at Baylor College of Medicine now has a YouTube channel! Check out their recent one, a recorded talk on AMR and phage therapy by one of TAILOR's founders, Dr. Anthony Maresso, called Chasing Change: A moving pandemic, an ada

Phage Futures 2021 will have a young researcher showcase at their event this coming February! If you're a young researcher attending the conference ($149 for students — register here), don't forget to apply to present a poster virtually by

US biotech company Felix Biotechnology announced the initiation of its first clinical trial, CYPHY, a phase 1/2 single center trial that will test its first targeted phage therapy candidate, YPT-01, against chronic P. aeruginosa infections

Pherecydes Pharma intends to list on the Euronext Growth® Market in Paris, a European equity trading market designed for small to medium-sized firms. Pherecydes Pharma has developed a portfolio of phages against Staphylococcus aureus, Pseud

David Lebeaux (Université de Paris) and colleagues published the first demonstration of phage therapy in a lung-transplanted cystic fibrosis patient infected with pandrug resistant A. xylosoxidans. They successfully carried out two rounds o

Repurposing CRISPR systems as antimicrobials is a new strategy being explored, and engineered phages could be a great way to carry them to their targets. Clément Fage (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues published a new perspective in

Julie Stenberg Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and colleagues published a paper on the isolation and characterization of a novel phage Jarilo, which is active against the plant pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum that causes so