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Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Belgium) lays out a vision for what personalized phage therapy might look like in the year 2035. His vision coincidentally also happens to lay out much of Phage Directory’s own roadmap!

David Olivenza (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) and colleagues published a new paper in Environmental Microbiology on a fascinating new epigenetic system that can detect a wide range of phages and identify the type of receptor they recognize

Shannon Slattery (University of Limerick, Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientific Reports describing the isolation of a Proteus mirabilis strain from wastewater harbouring an integrative conjugative element (ICE) contain

Ahmed Sofy (Al-Azhar University, Egypt) and colleagues published a new paper in Foods on their use of a polyvalent phage to successfully control coagulase-negative Staphylococcus strains (including biofilm dispersal) in a food setting.

A postdoc position is available at APC Microbiome Ireland in the Gut Phageomics Laboratory.

Contrafect, a company in New York City developing phage lysins as therapeutics, is hiring a senior research associate.

PhageOption 2020 will take place at Universidad de los Andes, Cartagena, Colombia from November 4-6, 2020. The conference will focus on the role phages can play in controlling MDR bacteria in human and agriculture fields. Organizers: Resear

Continuing the new, once-monthly Capsid & Tail format we started in April, this week we're rounding up an extra helping of May 2020's phage news. In place of a feature article this week, we're highlighting the three features we published th

Register for an upcoming virtual event on AMR and the requirement for a new business model for antimicrobials, hosted by members of European Parliament (June 4 at 12pm CET). Includes a talk by Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospita

A PhD position on modulation of virion stability is available at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (Polish Academy of Sciences) in Warsaw, Poland.

A postdoc position (funded by ERC Research) on virus-virus interactions and experimental evolution is available in the Sanjuan Lab at the University of Valencia, Spain. Contact rafael.sanjuan@uv.es.

A bioinformatician/data steward position related to metagenomics and phage-host interactions is available at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

A postdoc position is available at APC Microbiome Ireland in the Gut Phageomics Laboratory.

Phage Directory We learned that the CURE project partner from Sweden, which we wrote about in last week's Capsid & Tail article, "Could phages cure asthma?", is no longer part of the CURE team. Thanks very much to Sofia Romagosa at the Euro

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the 4th ed. of #AllAboutPhageTherapy we're honored to have Dr Elizabeth 'Betty' Kutter live in discussion. Lovingly referred to as “The First Lady of #PhageResearch”, Betty is one of the most experienced & respected

Alita Burmeister (Yale University) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how pleiotropy complicates trade-offs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance for a bacterial host, which has implications for phage thera

Anti-CRISPRs are widespread among phages, but it's been hard to screen for them. Jiawei Wang and colleagues at Monash University have developed an ensemble learning based predictor, PaCRISPR, to accurately identify anti-CRISPRs from protein

Check out how the US Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Chemical Biological Center is making use of a polymerized phage in biomanufacturing of BioCNFs, a black carbon material like charcoal that can help break up mustard

Register for an upcoming virtual event on AMR and the requirement for a new business model for antimicrobials, hosted by members of European Parliament (June 4 at 12pm CET). Includes a talk by Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospita

Check out these two new phage-related podcast episodes: Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) discusses AMR on "This Podcast Will Kill You", and "The Bio Report" talks