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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

Abiola Olaitan I am excited about moving to Canada and seeking research opportunities (academia or industry) in phage therapy in Canada. I am an early-career researcher with robust experience in bacterial antibiotic resistance and host-path

Gary Trubl Hey virus people! I would like to get a list of labs that have cultured soil viruses. If you are one or know one can you add to the list? Only the lab name & website are required. This resource would really help the community. RT

Vitalis Phage Therapy In case you missed it, Pranav Johri of Vitalis Phage Therapy interviewed Jean-Paul Pirnay of the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium today on All About Phage Therapy. Watch the recording here!

Eligo Bioscience was awarded funding from CARB-X to develop CRISPR-based phage therapeutics (up to $1.82 million now, and up to $7.05 million if project milestones are met). This is the first CRISPR-based phage project CARB-X has funded.

The Academy of Finland has granted 10 million Euro for research into COVID-related projects, and part of that will fund phage work! Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki in Finland were awarded funding for a

Hugo Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing that a phage tailspike with EPS-depolymerase activity, encoded by a phage belonging to a new genus within t

Marta Lourenço (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host and Microbe on how spatial heterogeneity in the gut limits phage predation and supports phage-host coexistence.

Andrew Hryckowian and Eric Martens have written a nice article on the backstory behind their recent paper on how capsular polysaccharides influence phage interactions with the gut symbiont Bacterioides thetaiotaomicron. Behind-the-paper | N

Josef Prazak (Bern University Hospital, Switzerland) and colleagues published a new paper in Critical Care Medicine showing that prophylactically administering nebulized phages to rats with experimental ventilator-associated pneumonia reduc

Bartłomiej Grygorcewicz (Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Drug Resistance showing that Acinetobacter baumannii phages could reduce biofilm biomass in a human urine model, a

Heather Hendrickson's lab at Massey University in New Zealand is working on finding phages for honeybee pathogens. Here's a nice video update from Heather, which also features Danielle Kok, a PhD student isolating the phages for this projec

TAILOR, a non-profit initiative in Houston, Texas that provides therapeutic phages as a service, has a new website! Read more about TAILOR here!

We are urgently seeking Staphylococcus epidermidis phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By helping sp

This week, we're rounding up an extra helping of June 2020's phage news and research. In place of a feature article this week, we're highlighting the three features we published this month. Be sure to check them out if you missed them, and

FixedPhage (Glasgow, Scotland) is hiring a Technical Manager, who will be responsible for building and maintaining the company's production facilities.

My client, a US-based CRO, wants to hire a Scientist with phage experience to assist in their phage and other contract research programs. The successful candidate will provide lab-bench and technical support to the company’s contract resear

APC Microbiome Ireland is hiring two Research Assistants to work within its Gut Phageomics Laboratory.

Jeremy Barr, Monash University The Barr lab is looking for laboratory-adapted strains of T2 and T6 phage from different labs to examine variation between them and older stocks. If you have either of these phages and would be willing to send

Camilo Barbosa Hi @phagedirectory, I’m looking for phages against P. aeruginosa that are in the processes of getting FDA approval or are already approved for use in humans as therapy. Can you help me spreading the word or pointing me in the