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This week, we're featuring a 'behind the paper' article by Steven Sutcliffe and Michael Shamash, graduate students in the Maurice Lab at McGill University. They dive into their new paper on what happens to gut phages when common oral medica

This month, we hosted episode 10 of PHAVES, a talk on phage engineering by Dr. Paul Jaschke, Lecturer at Macquarie University! Here's the recording, along with a recap written by Stephanie Lynch, PhD candidate at La Trobe University (and ou

For this week's feature article, Rodrigo Monteiro and Graça Pinto interviewed University of Wroclaw Professor Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa about her phage therapy and phage depolymerase enzyme research. She shares how she navigates complex grant pro

This month, we hosted two episodes of PHAVES! Here are the recordings, along with brief summaries. Thanks very much to our special guests, Gordon Smith (Fixed Phage), Chloe Jerrold-Jones (Cellexus), and Dr. Rodrigo Ibarra-Chavez (University

This month, we hosted two episodes of PHAVES! Here's your recap of both, along with links to the recordings. Thanks very much to our special guests, Dr. Sabrina Green and Dr. Panos Kalatzis. This month, we hosted two PHAVES events; here's y

This week, Dr. Rohit Kongari interviewed Dr. Vivek Mutalik of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory about his journey to become a phage researcher, and how he's using his engineering background and penchant to develop tools to answer questi

This month, we hosted two episodes of PHAVES! Here's your recap of both, along with links to the recordings. Thanks very much to our special guests, Dr. Elyse Stachler and Piotr Tynecki! This month, we hosted two PHAVES events; here's your

This week, Capsid & Tail's volunteer editor Dr. Rohit Kongari talks to UCSF's Dr. Adair Borges about the unexpected connection she's uncovered between phage anti-CRISPRs and the Pseudomonas alginate pathway. This week, Dr. Rohit Kongari bri

This week, Graça Pinto and Rodrigo Monteiro bring us a Q&A with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens about her career studying phages and viromes, her thoughts on manipulating microbiomes with viruses, and how viral classification is changing. Universi

This week, Julie Callanan, a PhD student at APC Microbiome Ireland and University College Cork, introduces us to RNA phages, why they're so elusive, and how her research is beginning to unravel their secrets. The delight of finding Wally am

This week, we're highlighting a paper published by Shelley Gibson and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. They've constructed and characterized phage libraries against three pathogens, and m

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 highlight a new paper documenting the first use of engineered phages in human therapy, published yesterday by Rebekah Dedrick, Carlos Guerrero-Bustamante, and colleagues in Nature Medicine. This week, we're going over a new ph

This week, we highlight a useful new animal model for the phage therapy community. Last week, we introduced a new paper describing use of a cystic fibrosis zebrafish model to test phage therapy outcomes. This week, we dive (pun intended) de

How is phage-host coevolution studied in the lab, and what can it tell us? Raise your hand if you've used the terms "coevolution" or "arms race" to describe how phages and their hosts interact. Chances are, if you've written a grant, a pape