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Good morning, 2022! We’re extremely proud of our work empowering the community, running events like Evergreen and building Instill. This year, we'll be focused on building the “operating system” for phage therapy. From lab workflows to web

It's our last issue of the year! We reflect on what we're especially proud of from this year, and highlight some stats on where we're at as a community! Also: a giant thanks to each of our amazing volunteers! Hi phage friends, Another year

Hello 2021!! This year, we're focusing on empowering the phage community with the knowledge and tools it needs to overcome phage research challenges & help others do the same. Happy New Year everyone! After a great couple of weeks reflectin

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

For this week's feature article, Dr. Rohit Kongari interviewed Dr. Ben Burrowes, Senior Scientist at the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M University, about his path from phage PhD to industry scientist, to running his own consultanc

This week, Fatma Abdelrahman, a research assistant at Zewail City of Science and Technology in Egypt, announces the launch of her new initiative for supporting women who work with phage. ## About the founder My name is Fatma Abdelrahman, a

This week, two PharmD students from different countries, Christine Thompson (USA) and Yasmine Bendimrad (Morocco), share their views on pharmacists' roles in antimicrobial stewardship and how phages could fit into their scope as future infe

This week, Donna May Papa, Assistant Professor at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines, tells us about her lab's journey into phage research, and their plans for the future. Since the global antimicrobial resistance crisis h

Dr. Ritah Nakayinga attended the 4th Phages for Global Health workshop in Tanzania this year. This week she shares her experience at the workshop, its impact on her research, and the importance of phage training like this in East Africa. Th

This week, Ella Balasa, a cystic fibrosis patient who received phage therapy from Yale researchers in 2019, tells her story. I’ll take you on a journey of how phage therapy has had an impact on my life within the past year. The fall of 2018

This week, Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi, a Lecturer at Plateau State University in Bokkos, Nigeria, shares some of the challenges his phage research lab faces due to their resource-limited setting. Phage research is gaining traction globally. Th

We’ve been publishing Capsid & Tail for a year now, and while some of you have been here since the early days, we know many of you have found us relatively recently. So this week, we’ve gone through our archive to dig up some of our favouri

This week, Paulina Deptula, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, shares her experience using Twitter to find both phages for her research and a supportive community ready to help. ## Non-emergency phage requests are im

This week is a special, exciting week for Phage Directory! We’ve got big news pertaining to funding, new directions, and a website makeover! And to balance out all the NEW, our feature article this week focuses on something that’s staying t

This week, Siân Owen, a postdoctoral fellow studying prophage biology at Harvard University, gives us the scoop on the phage side of this year’s ASM Microbe conference. ASM Microbe 2019 was held at the Moscone Conference Centre in downtown

This week, we’re showcasing a story we received from Karen Adler, an MSc student in Dr. Ronen Hazan's lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She tells us about the phage work their lab is doing with high school students, some of the res

We interviewed Pranav Johri, a former phage therapy patient who founded Vitalis Phage Therapy to help others access phage therapy, especially in his home country of India. Pranav Johri founded Vitalis Phage Therapy in 2017, which partners w

What love, community, and phages can do: this week, we bring you a review of Steffanie Strathdee and Tom Patterson's phage therapy memoir, The Perfect Predator. This week, I've reviewed a book: The Perfect Predator—A Scientist's Race to Sav

This week, we’re sharing insights from our experience talking to middle school kids about phages, phage therapy, and Phage Directory. This month, Jan and I were asked to talk to a bunch of grade 7 and 8 kids in the small, rural town of Olds

We’re incredibly humbled by all the wonderful feedback and for your help in spreading the word about Capsid & Tail and Phage Directory. Thank you!! Dear readers, As our earliest members, we’re immensely thankful for your support and reader