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I'm looking for a collaborator on #phage #phagetherapy #Acinetobacter & antimicrobial resistance. The call is specifically for a collaboration with Japan. Please let me know if you know anyone - Thank you! DM or email: Leptihn(at)intl.zju.e

Hello, #phage tweeps! I have a question. Suppose you have a bunch of phage MAGs, each composed of more than 1 contig: how do you calculate their completeness? I have a couple of ideas, but I still need to evaluate their feasibility. - @Mich

Phage Directory Do you have a new or upcoming paper that you're excited about sharing with the phage community? We'd like to publish more Behind the Paper articles (like last week's by Prof. Yves Briers) in future Capsid & Tail issues. To t

Armata Pharmaceuticals just received a $15 million award from the US Department of Defense to take its Staphylococcus aureus phage cocktail to phase 1b/2 clinical trials.

How should we optimally design phage cocktail timing and dosage to deal with evolutionary escape of pathogens? Guanlin Li and Chung Yin Leung (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on using mathematical model

Thilini Jayasinghe (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology showing differences in compositions of gut bacterial populations and phages in 5–11 year-olds

Katarzyna Leskinen (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on how they determined the genome of a non-sequenceable Yersinia phage YerA41 via RNA-sequencing.

Gang Wang (Jiangnan University) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing the diversity of the CRISPR-Cas system and prophages present in the genome reveals co-evolution of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum a

What's new in the world of molecular mechanisms of lysogeny? Margit Pedersen and colleagues (University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark) have published a new paper in Scientific Reports investigating repressor binding inte

Intralytix is a phage company in Maryland, USA that began in 1998 developing phage products for food; recently they've moved toward human therapy. Read about their recent progress here, including their new NIAID-funded Shigella phage clinic

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,

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We are urgently seeking Burkholderia cepacia 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 spread t

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia cepacia 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 spread t

A 2020 paper in PHAGE evaluates methods for processing sputum from patients with cystic fibrosis to detect Pf bacteriophage virion-derived nucleic acid, testing the effect of bead beating, DNase digestion and heating steps and quantifying P

This week, Prof. Yves Briers of Ghent University in Belgium takes us behind the scenes of his group's new paper on an efficient new way of engineering thousands of phage lysins at once. This article takes us behind the scenes of this pape

The Weitz group at Georgia Tech is hiring a Scientific Project Coordinator and Data Communication Specialist to help their group advance, communicate, and share discoveries of how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet. A

Phage Directory We're excited to announce that we've launched an ongoing sponsorship program for Phage Directory's community building activities, and we have our first Bronze Sponsor: JAFRAL! JAFRAL is the world's only CMO/CRO dedicated pr

Phage Directory Phage Directory's Virtual Event Series, PHAVES, starts this Tuesday, June 16 at 9:00 AM MDT (GMT-6)! For the kickoff event, Jessica and Jan will introduce the virtual series and Phage Directory's projects for 2020, and we'll

Atiwich Patthamapornsirikul My name is Atiwich and I am graduated from Horticultural Science at University of Bologna. I am a prospect Ph.D. student at Plant Pathology, INRAe PACA, Avignon, France, in the research project entitled “Building