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Marwan Mahmood Saleh (University of Anbar, Iraq) and colleagues evaluated the lytic efficiency of a three-phage cocktail against multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa isolates in vitro. The cocktail showed broad activity, including against XDR

Metabolites released from intact, phage-infected Synechococcus strongly attracted the marine bacteria Vibrio alginolyticus and Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis, especially in early infection, while uninfected cyanobacteria did not. 5'-deoxyad

Phages.fr is hosting the 9th French Phage Network Meeting, taking place next week in Sète, France. This annual conference aims to bring together French phage researchers to share recent findings, discuss collaborations, and advance the fiel

New social network alert! A bunch of phage people are now on Bluesky! Atif Khan, Jyot Antani, James Gurney, and Richard Allen White III have curated and shared phage-related ‘Starter Packs’ to help newcomers find the phage community on the

Frontiers is hosting a virtual seminar called Visualizing the microbiome: data-driven discoveries on January 18, 2024. Rob Knight from the UC San Diego will discuss key findings from microbiome research projects, innovative data visualizat

Baptiste Gaborieau (Université Paris Cité, France) and colleagues published a new paper showing accurate prediction of strain-level phage-bacteria interactions in E. coli using only genomic data.

It's hard to compare results across human gut virome studies. Michael Shamash (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues show that using 'predicted phage host families' can improve cross-study virome analyses and help detect disease-specifi

Dong Li (Beijing University of Chemical Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on how phage proteins can sequester signaling molecules from TIR and cGAS-like antiviral defense enzymes. Also check out this explainer thread by coau

Elizabeth Burgener (Children's Hospital of Los Angeles) and colleagues published a new paper on how Pf phage impacts cystic fibrosis patients, with Pseudomonas infections, showing high Pf in sputum is associated with lung function decline a

Is the Nagoya Protocol doing its job to ensure countries get the benefits from their own genetic resources? Hassan Salem & Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Institute) argue that the protocol's implementation has impeded research due to incompa

Jyot Antani (Yale University) and colleagues developed a microscopy-based technique to measure phage attachment to bacterial cells. This method provides an attractive alternative to the (literally) century-old Phage Adsorption Assay because

François Rousset (Weizmann Institute of Science) and colleagues discovered a new immune signaling molecule: N7-cADPR, which is produced by phage-stimulated TIR proteins. It activates a bacterial caspase, which then degrades essential protei

Tong Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and colleagues discovered a bacterial immunity protein that senses two unrelated phage proteins, showing that CapRelSJ46 in E. coli can directly bind two structurally different phage protei

Peter Erdmann Dougherty (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues isolated and sequenced 8 novel phages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria, characterizing their genomic, phylogenetic, and morphological traits. They identified DNA modific

PHIOGEN is seeking to explore patient experiences with recurrent UTIs and attitudes toward phage therapeutics: the study involves a brief screening questionnaire followed by a survey for qualified participants who experience ongoing UTI sym

Atif Khan (phage scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Chennai, India and longtime Phage Directory volunteer) was interviewed on the "You Make Me Sick!" podcast about his work. They talk phages, biofilms, biofouling, multidrug-r

The Phage Collection Project, led by early career researchers at the University of Southampton, is pioneering a citizen science initiative to tackle AMR. The project combines public education, clinical biobanking, and policy advocacy to ad

Using a dataset of interactions between 403 Escherichia strains and 96 phages, researchers predicted strain-level phage-bacteria outcomes from genomic data alone (AUROC 86%) and found that adsorption factors explain most interactions while

Join us for World Phage Week Webinar 2024, hosted by the Ibadan Phage Research Team at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The event will take place TODAY/TOMORROW — Friday, October 25, to Saturday, October 26, 2024 (West Africa Standard Ti

Darren Smith (Northumbria University) and colleagues invite phage researchers to the Viruses of Microbes - UK conference, featuring keynote speakers, over 100 postgraduate presentations, and a pre-conference phage genomics workshop. 23rd -