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Professor Lone Brøndsted (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) has an opening in her lab for a PhD student to work on a phage-host interaction project.

June Round (University of Utah) is seeking a postdoc to study phages in commensal populations of Clostridium.

Phage Directory Our next PHAVES event will be Tuesday, July 21 at 11 AM Eastern, 5 PM CEST (GMT+2). Piotr Tynecki of SLAVIC AI, the creator of phage.ai, will give a talk entitled "Boosting phage exploration by Artificial Intelligence: what

Cassandra Nelson, University of Maryland Next week’s Pseudomonas Seminar will be held on Tuesday July 21th at 1pm EST. Our speaker will be Dr. Patrick Secor from the University of Montana presenting “The intersection of quorum sensing and P

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Nigeria Are you changing lab or upgrading equipment? Consider donating used or old equipment to our phage lab to help us build our phage capacity. Email: eennadi@gmail.com

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Nigeria Would you consider a phage that has acitivity against Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus capitis, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas spp an asset or liability? Good phage

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new preprint on a new prophage-encoded defense protein that simultaneously suppresses phage epidemics in a population (through abortive infection) and provides self-immunity to t

James Gurney (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on 'phage steering': when phages are used to push pathogens to evolve to be less antibiotic-resistant. They show that Pseudomonas phage OMKO1 effectively pu

Intralytix has been issued a US patent covering its Shigella phages and their various formulations and applications (US Patent # 10,711,252), including improving food safety and human health, maintaining healthy gut microflora by modulating

Stanley Ho (University of Birmingham) has made a list of bioinformatics tools for predicting and identifying phages in metagenomes and metaviromes. See also this Twitter thread, where others have been sharing similar tools.

DBSCAN-SWA is a new tool for prophage detection, recently published as a preprint by Rui Gan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) and colleagues. Preprint | Github.

Katja Šuster (Valdoltra Orthopaedic Hospital, Slovenia) and colleagues published a new paper in The New Microbiologica describing their use of phage K to speed up Staphylococcus detection in prosthetic joint fluid.

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

We are urgently seeking Propionibacterium acnes phages for a patient in Europe. Ways to help at this stage: - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By providing info

We are urgently seeking Propionibacterium acnes phages for a patient in Europe. Ways to help at this stage: - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By providing info

ISVM ISVM's bi-annual conference Viruses of Microbes is back in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2020 Guimarães, Portugal

The 2020 PhageAI preprint describes a genome-sequence classifier for lytic and lysogenic life cycles. It reports 98.90% validation accuracy and 97.18% average test accuracy, and describes access through a REST service and Python package. Ph

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

Ignacio Mir-Sanchis at the IMS-Lab at Umeå University in Sweden offers a PhD position to study gene expression and DNA replication of staphylococcal mobile genetic elements (including phages) using a multidisciplinary approach: genetics and

There are open positions at NCATS (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, within the NIH) for a postdoc and research scientist working on phage panning and antibody discovery. Send a direct message to Matt Hall (@cispt2) on T