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Phage Directory PHAVES will continue on July 7th, most likely at 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4) / 5:00 PM CEST (UTC+2), so save the date! Details will be posted here closer to the date: https://seminars.phage.directory. Check out the recap (and rec

Kevin Forsberg, a postdoctoral fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, was awarded a 1.5M NIAID New Innovators Award to pursue his research into how bacteria defend against viruses. This is the first year this award has been o

Matthew Brown (Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, North Carolina) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on the development and evaluation of a new phage-based MRSA diagnostic screen. The screen uses two luciferase reporte

Eric Sumrall (ETH Zurich) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology describing a novel phage protein tool kit that can be used for glycotyping and specific separation of Listeria monocytogenes

Phages use holin proteins to lyse cells from within. Tanbir Ahammad (Miami Univeristy, Ohio) and colleagues have used continuous-wave electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate the structural dynamics and topology of phage Φ2

Md. Tanveer Hossain (Iwate University, Japan) and collaborators pubished an article in Viruses showing an evolution experiment where they adapt ssRNA phage Qβ to high temperatures. This adaptation occurred quickly, and did not lead to reduc

Ever wondered about phage abundance, diversity or geographic patterns of phage-host interactions in an urban setting like New York City? Kristen Gulino (New York University) and collaborators published a new paper in mSystems showing the in

Mihnea Mangalea and Breck Duerkop (University of Colorado School of Medicine) published a new minireview in Infection and Immunity on the physiological consequences of different phage resistance mechanisms, and how this understanding can im

Peter Voorhees (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and colleagues published a new review in the Journal of Controlled Release on the challenges and opportunities for phage-based in situ microbiome engineering in the gut.

Retrons are bacterial genetic elements comprised of a reverse transcriptase (RT) and a non-coding RNA, but their functions have been unknown for decades. Adi Millman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and colleagues published a new pre

Bacterial pathogens of fish cause major problems for fish farmers. Bernardo Veyrand‐Quirós (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico) and colleagues published a new paper in the Journal of Applied Microbiology showing that phage therapy incre

Another story about phage application in marine aquaculture! Hyoun Joong Kim (Seoul National University) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing the preventive effects of phage against pathogenic Vibrio coralliilyticu

Ayesha Hassim (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing that an "aggressively lytic" phage hampered isolation of Bacillus anthracis from samples collected from the carcass of a wil

Lucy Furfaro (University of Western Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS ONE showing host range, morphological and genomic characterization of phages with activity against clinical Streptococcus agalactiae isolates from p

Canadian Society of Microbiologists Guelph, Canada The next CSM we're told will have a full session (5 speakers) on phages, so mark your calendars!

We kicked off PHAVES this Tuesday! We discussed Phage Directory's origin story and future directions, answered questions from the community, and hosted a series of small-group breakout sessions. Here's how it all went! ## Here's the link to

We are urgently seeking Citrobacter freundii phages (and phage manufacturing capacity) for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By preparing clinical-grade phage preparations for this patient (one phage already identified,

The Bikard Lab (Institut Pasteur, Paris) is hiring a postdoc to study the properties of Cas proteins in bacteria, their interaction with DNA repair pathways, and the mechanism and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems as phage defense systems

Paul Hyman, Ashland University Are you modifying phages, genetically or chemically, to improve their ability to act as therapeutics? Attaching toxins so the phage capsid provides specificity to target bacteria? Creating phage based vaccines

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University We have in our collection, E. coli, P. aeruginosa and S. aureus phages. We would wish to characterize them molecularly and under the microscope. We do not have any such capacity in our lab. We see fo