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Arturo Carabias (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper on phage-encoded NAD restoration pathways, showing how phages counter bacterial immunity through innovative strategies to replenish NAD, providing insights for

Chao Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a new paper on phage CRISPR-like regulatory RNAs silencing bacterial immunity, showing how phages use crlRNA mimics to hijack host CRISPR-Cas and abortive infection defenses in

Talia Backman (University of Utah) and colleagues published a new paper on tradeoffs and constraints in tailocin evolution, showing tailocins exhibit extreme target specificity, evolve rapidly, and face tradeoffs between resistance and host

Anthony King wrote a piece for Nature Outlook on bacteria-killing viruses in the gut microbiome, showing that phages are key players in gut ecology but remain difficult to study due to their abundance and diversity.

NRC, Ottawa, Canada is hiring a postdoc to investigate the relationship between phage production and hypervirulence of Acinetobacter baumannii.

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

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is hiring a postdoctoral research fellow to study phage interactions with host bacteria in the Duerkop laboratory.

PlzR inhibits type IV pili assembly in P. aeruginosa and prevents phage infection.

Alexander Harms at ETH Zurich is hiring a postdoc to study P. aeruginosa phage-host interactions, utilizing advanced genetics and genomics to uncover molecular insights that could inform phage therapy applications.

A novel phage, TS33, targeting Hafnia species in a model Brie-like cheese community; many host factors that contribute to infectivity are O-antigen genes.

Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) is hiring a PhD position to investigate immune mechanisms of bacteria against phages using live-cell microscopy and bacterial genetics.

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is hiring a PhD student to study phage-host interactions and single-cell transcriptomics in microbial infections.

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is hiring a PhD student to study phage-host interactions and single-cell transcriptomics in microbial infections.

How do we elucidate required genes in non-model phage-host pairs? Milan Gerovac (University of Würzburg, Germany) and colleagues published a new method of 'non-genetic' mRNA silencing (exogenous delivery of programmable antisense oligomers)

Emma Spencer (University of Idaho) and colleagues published a new preprint on phages of honeybee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae. They looked at resistance evolution and how phage resistant isolates developed reduced pathogenicity — and phage

Dimi Boeckaerts and colleagues have developed a new AI model, PhageHostLearn, which predicts Klebsiella phage-host interactions at the strain level, and in a ‘ranking format’ that is directly actionable in the lab. Paper | Behind-the-paper

Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new preprint on systematic genome-wide discovery of host factors governing phage infectivity. They describe 'PHAGEPACK', a novel assay combining CRISPR

The Environmental Microbial Group at the University of Copenhagen is offering a 21-month postdoc position within the field of bacteria-phage interactions.

Jirapat Thongchol (Texas A&M University) and colleagues have shown how Pseudomonas phage PP7 utilizes the type IV pilus (T4P) to enter host cells.