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Research Associate at the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester. This post is funded by an industry award to isolate bacteriophages against Moraxella bovis strains associated with face flies and to carry out pro

Lab technician: to apply phage therapy’s most advanced techniques to animal farming at Phagos, France.

Paper: Isolation and characterization of Campylobacter jejuni–specific bacteriophages from Germany and their suitability for use in food production — Severin Michael Steffan et al.

Paper: Spontaneous phage resistance in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli.

Review: Phages of phytopathogenic bacteria - high potential but challenging application

Rashedul Islama (Guelph Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition a systematic review from basics to omics on bacteriophage applications in poultry production and pro

The Kenny Lab at University College Cork (Cork, Ireland) is hiring a research assistant to develop phage therapy solutions to target Streptococcus suis in pigs.

This week, we're featuring an article co-published with PHAGE Journal highlighting a selection of talks from the Evergreen 2021 conference, written by a group of phage-enthusiastic students and postdocs who attended! This week's feature ar

Angela Makumi (International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya) and colleagues published a paper in Antibiotics on the potential benefit and challenges of phage therapy for the livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Phages for Global Health and their phage development work in Africa was covered in this C&EN Chemical Engineering News piece. It gets into what prompted Tobi Nagel to start PGH, and illustrates some exciting agricultural phage work they're

A study led by Carlos Gonzalez and colleagues at the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M has led to the development of the first curative and preventive phage treatment against Xylella fastidiosa, which causes Pierce’s disease in grape

This week, we've got highlights and recordings for 3 webinars we hosted this month: An interview with Dr. Randy Fish on clinical phage therapy for diabetic foot wounds, a talk by Dr. Clara Torres-Barceló on plant pathogen phage research, an

Fixed Phage, a Glasgow-based phage biotech company commercialising phage immobilisation and stabilisation-based technology, has secured £2.4 million to scale up its fight against new microbial threats that pose risks to human health and agr

Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbiome showing how a hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome revealed a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and vi

For this week's feature article, we interviewed Dr. Arkadiusz Wojtasik, a Production Director at Proteon Pharmaceuticals, about how his team uses the Cellexus CellMaker to produce phage for livestock farming. Phage manufacturing is a known

The C-SNIPER project (Campylobacter-Specific Nullification via Innovative Phage-mediated Enteropathogen Reduction), led by AZTI (a technology center in Spain) received funding from the European Institute of Innovation & Technology. The proj

Michela Gambino (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new review in Current Opinion in Biotechnology on modernizing phage-based control of zoonotic pathogens in food and animal production. They suggest a holistic approach bu

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

DuPont Animal Nutrition announced a partnership with Proteon Pharmaceuticals toward development of phage technology for poultry producers.

Oriana Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing the isolation and characterization of 13 phages with the potential to control Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actini