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For our last issue of 2020, we're reflecting back on Phage Directory's 2020 progress, and the incredible collaborators who have made it possible. We're really proud of the ways we've been able to connect and work with the phage community vi

Check out the agenda for the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit - led by 25+ expert speakers from industry, academia and governmental bodies, this meeting will equip you with all the tools you need in order to accelerate the discovery and tra

The Africa Phage Forum formed by a group of passionate African phage researchers provides a collaborative network for the promotion and sensitization of phage research in Africa. The forum is on a quest to seek solutions to common challenge

The Center for Phage Technology (Texas A&M) has released its upgraded and improved Galaxy-Apollo phage annotation platform. This is a free, web-based, gold-standard system for phage annotation, and their website includes training materials

Great in-depth narrative article in The New Yorker magazine by Nicola Twilley, which details accounts of phage therapy patients treated recently in the US, as well as the behind-the-scenes work by scientists and doctors that goes into isola

Animals in the wild have learned to live with 'their' viruses, but humans are still learning. Harald Brussow (KU Leuven) has described in a new 'crystal ball' article how phages have dominated all natural habitats, and has provided a unique

To use phages as therapeutic agents, ensuring phages reach the site of infection is key. Belinda Loh (Zhejiang University, China) and colleagues published a review article unfolding numerous approaches for phage delivery, including methods

Bryan Lenneman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a review on phage engineering approaches to redirect specificity and reduce resistance development. They also describe the application of designer phages as gen

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

Deerland Enzymes (Cork, Ireland) is hiring a research and development scientist to develop and optimize novel methodologies relating to probiotic, enzyme and phage research.

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

The Ahlgren lab at Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) is hiring a PhD student to contribute to an NSF-funded project studying the phylogenetic and genomic determinants of host range in Synechococcus and cyanophage.

We are urgently seeking Propionibacterium avidum 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 th

We are urgently seeking Propionibacterium avidum 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 th

Pranav and Apurva Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage Therapy, recently set up a new framework that allows patients in India to get phage susceptibility testing done locally. We sat down with Pranav and Apurva to learn more about what this mil

The University of Texas at Austin is hiring a research associate to investigate bacterial genome architecture using transposable phage Mu.

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

The Bordenstein lab at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) is hiring a postdoc to study selfish phage genes and symbionts in Drosophila.

The Reynolds lab at UWE Bristol (Bristol, UK) is hiring a PhD student to study the efficacy of antimicrobial aerosols through the development of a phage-based model.

The International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms has announced their newly elected executive board members for 2021-2022! Congratulations to Rob Lavigne (President), Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa (President-elect), Andrew Millard (Vice-Presid