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International Bacteriophage Research Consortium We are very pleased to have Prof. Graham Hatfull share his inspiring body of work on mycobacteriophages through live in discussion with us. Graham Hatfull’s research focuses on the molecular g

Muhammad Sohail, Conference Director 09-10 September 2020 http://lpmhealthcare.com/phages-2020-virtual/ Twitter: @PhageOxford; Hashtag: #PhgOx20V Email: PhageOxford@gmail.com The themes and focus of the meeting will be all aspects of bacte

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the fifth episode of All About Phage Therapy, we talked with Dr Aradhana Vipra, head of microbiology and Dr Jagadeesh Bhat, senior scientific manager at India's first phage research company, GangaGen Biotechnologies

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and the Mayo Clinic have announced a collaboration to commercialize a phage susceptibility test. The test will enable rapid identification of patient-specific phages for therapy (based on screening hundreds of ca

Charlotte Brives (CNRS, France) and Jessica Pourraz (Université de Bordeaux) published an anthropologist's take on the field of phage therapy. This paper digs into how the way we think about and develop antibiotics continues to inhibit phag

Ronen Hazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues at the Hadassah Medical Center have been awarded an Israel Precision Medicine Partnership grant to pursue their phage therapy program. So far they've banked 300 phages and have tre

The Skurnik group at the Unviersity of Helsinki recently published three phage papers in Viruses! The papers span Yersinia phages, Acinetobacter phages, and Klebsiella phages, and between them they cover lytic, temperate and even "non-seque

Dragica Damnjanovic (UNSW Sydney) and colleagues published a paper in BMC Microbiology on phage genotyping using repetitive-PCR, a rapid and inexpensive method to preliminarily screen phage isolates prior to selecting them for future studie

Kristopher Kieft and colleagues (University of Wisconsin-Madison) published a new paper in Microbiome about VIBRANT, a new hybrid machine learning and protein similarity approach for automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial

Rafael Gonzalez-Serrano (Universidad Miguel Hernández) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems describing an Alteromonas-targeting phage representing a new marine myovirus genus. They also determined that this phage requires a tail

Taylor Miller-Ensminger (Loyola University, Chicago) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS ONE introducing Lu-1, a novel Lactobacillus jensenii phage abundant in the urogenital tract.

Dr. Ritah Nakayinga attended the 4th Phages for Global Health workshop in Tanzania this year. This week she shares her experience at the workshop, its impact on her research, and the importance of phage training like this in East Africa. Th

A Madison, Wisconsin company is hiring a scientist (culture development) for research into lactic acid bacteria in food fermentation. An understanding of phage management is essential.

Need help with phage manufacturing, and looking for an outsourcing partner? JAFRAL manufactures phages to the highest quality and purity, and develops manufacturing processes and analytical methods for various phage types and phage applicat

The Faculty of Biology and Medicine and the Lausanne University Hospital (Lausanne, Switzerland) are hiring a senior lecturer in the field of phage therapy / bacteriophages.

Phage Directory It's almost time for PHAVES: Phage Directory Virtual Event Series! (The acronym was too good; how could we not?) Save the date for June 16 at 8 AM Pacific Time (GMT-7) (details to come). And we're keeping signups open on a

Got phage protocols, or wish you did? The community can probably help! Here's an example from Twitter: "Hey, I'm working on phages and need to extract phage dna for characterization. Would you recommend Zymo kit for extraction? If not, whi

Last month, Cellexus installed a Dual CellMaker system for FixedPhage, who will use this system to produce phages designed to protect flowers, so people can enjoy longer lasting bouquets. To find out how the CellMaker can improve your phage

Could phage therapy target bacterial meningitis? Christian Møller-Olsen (University of Warwick, UK) and colleagues have shown that phage K1F can infect E. coli within cerebral endothelial cells without eliciting an inflammatory response. Th

Hans Gerstmans (Ghent University, Belgium) and colleagues published a new paper in Science Advances on a VersaTile-driven platform for rapid hit-to-lead development of engineered lysins. Stay tuned; next week's feature article will be a beh