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Phage Club on Clubhouse is back next week on Wednesday night (9PM Eastern). The theme will be 'Therapeutic Phage on Trial: Burden of Proof in Genomic Analysis', which will be an 'after party' after Justin Clark's seminar on Tuesday March 30

Phage Directory is exploring a new opportunity related to phage sharing, and we're looking to hear from the phage community! Phage biotech companies are seeking to expand their phage collections (for therapeutics and biocontrol), and we're

Phage Directory Our virtual event series, PHAVES, continues this coming Tuesday, July 7 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 5:00 PM Zurich (GMT+2). Dr. Elyse Stachler, postdoc at Eawag in Switzerland, will share her research into combining phages

Phage Directory Do you have a new or upcoming paper that you're excited about sharing with the phage community? We'd like to publish more Behind the Paper articles (like last week's by Prof. Yves Briers) in future Capsid & Tail issues. To t

Phage Directory We're excited to announce that we've launched an ongoing sponsorship program for Phage Directory's community building activities, and we have our first Bronze Sponsor: JAFRAL! JAFRAL is the world's only CMO/CRO dedicated pr

Got phage protocols, or wish you did? The community can probably help! Here's an example from Twitter: "Hey, I'm working on phages and need to extract phage dna for characterization. Would you recommend Zymo kit for extraction? If not, whi

Phage Directory We learned that the CURE project partner from Sweden, which we wrote about in last week's Capsid & Tail article, "Could phages cure asthma?", is no longer part of the CURE team. Thanks very much to Sofia Romagosa at the Euro

Phage Directory We learned that the CURE project partner from Sweden, which we wrote about in last week's Capsid & Tail article, "Could phages cure asthma?", is no longer part of the CURE team. Thanks very much to Sofia Romagosa at the Euro

Phage Directory We've heard from many of you that you're missing out on hearing about each other's phage work! So we're putting together a plan for a series of virtual phage events. Let us know your topic suggestions, nominate a speaker (m

Phage Directory We've heard from many of you that you're missing out on hearing about each other's phage work! So we're putting together a plan for a series of virtual phage events. The original invitation requested topic suggestions, spea

Phage Directory Last week, we sent an urgent alert for phages on behalf of a patient in Finland with ESBL E. coli. The phage hunt was initiated by Mikael Skurnik and his lab at the University of Helsinki (read a nice profile on the Skurnik

Phage Directory Last week, we sent an urgent alert for phages on behalf of a patient in Finland with ESBL E. coli. The phage hunt was initiated by Mikael Skurnik and his lab at the University of Helsinki (read a nice profile on the Skurnik

Phage Directory has three new volunteers! Please welcome Lauren Dunlop, Dr. Rohit Kongari and Lizzie Richardson! Lauren helps us behind the scenes with things like finding out about grants we can apply for. Rohit and Lizzie are currently he

Phage Directory has three new volunteers! Please welcome Lauren Dunlop, Dr. Rohit Kongari and Lizzie Richardson! Lauren helps us behind the scenes with things like finding out about grants we can apply for. Rohit and Lizzie are currently he

Merry Christmas! We'll be taking a break from Capsid & Tail next week, but we'll be back in the new year, starting with a reflection on 2019 and a look at where Phage Directory is headed in 2020! P.S. If you're interested in contributing a

Merry Christmas! We'll be taking a break from Capsid & Tail next week, but we'll be back in the new year, starting with a reflection on 2019 and a look at where Phage Directory is headed in 2020! P.S. The 2020 guest-writing schedule is ret

Thanks so much to Sylvain Moineau at Laval University, David Speicher at McMaster University, and Hany Anany at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for hosting us these last couple of weeks! It's been fantastic to have the opportunity to prese

Thanks so much to Sylvain Moineau at Laval University, David Speicher at McMaster University, and Hany Anany at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for hosting us these last couple of weeks! It's been fantastic to have the opportunity to prese

Here's a shameless plug: we wrote a textbook chapter for Bacteriophages: Biology, Technology, Therapy, and it came out this week! We focus on how countries new to phage therapy are making compassionate phage therapy work (hint: collaboratio

Here's a shameless plug: we wrote a textbook chapter for Bacteriophages: Biology, Technology, Therapy, and it came out this week! We focus on how countries new to phage therapy are making compassionate phage therapy work (hint: collaboratio