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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.

Ruoshi Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany) and colleagues published a new preprint on SpacePHARER, a tool that predicts phage-host relationships by identifying phage genomes that match CRISPR spacers in genomic o

Sean Carim (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint on the systematic discovery of pseudomonad genetic factors involved in tailocin sensitivity. Tailocins are essentially headless phages that likely evolved from defective proph

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

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

This week, we're spotlighting CURE, a multidisciplinary project laying the foundation for treating and curing asthma with phages. This week, we're spotlighting CURE, a European Horizon 2020-funded, multidisciplinary project aiming to lay th

A new phage therapy book edited by Aidan Coffey (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Colin Buttimer (University College Cork, Ireland) has been published by Caister Academic Press. The book is entitled "Bacterial Viruses: Exploitatio

Vulcan Biologics (Boston, MA) is developing novel in situ microbiome modulating technologies through the use of bacteriophages. They're hiring a senior scientist (microbiology), who will be instrumental in establishing and executing the mic

Odyssey Systems is hiring multiple positions for a Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) contract related to phage therapy: a senior molecular phage biologist and a microbiology research technician level II and level IV.

Phage Directory Sign up to present your research in the upcoming Phage Directory Virtual Events Series! And let us know who you'd like to hear from, or suggest a topic, via email: events@phage.directory. We'll be tailoring the format of th

Vitalis Phage Therapy Tune in at 11 a.m. IST this Sunday, 24th May for a live discussion with Dr. Gopal Nath, who will talk to us about his experiences with clinical application of phage therapy, presenting phage therapy to medical regulato

Denish Piya (UC Berkeley) and colleagues at the Center for Phage Technology in Texas published a new paper in Scientific Reports on using genome-wide screens to identify Escherichia coli host factors required for propagation of two novel ph

Phage GIFs galore! Curtis Hoffman (@phagehunter on Twitter) has collected a large assortment of phage GIFs!

Eugene Koonin (NCBI) and colleagues published a new paper on a new proposed megataxonomy of the virus world. Simon Roux raves about this paper on Twitter, calling it a "near-complete unification of viral taxonomy", and lists his favourite n

Ortal Yerushalmy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics describing their newly-created Israeli Phage Bank (IPB). Read about their collection of around 300 phages matching around 21 bacterial spe

Check out this fantastic spotlight of the people and goals behind BCM TAILΦR Labs, a recently-established phage therapy service center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Founders Anthony Maresso, Austen Terwilliger and Sabrina

Dr. Panos Kalatzis gives a detailed interview on starting his biotech company Aquatic Biologicals in Greece, which is using phages to target fish pathogens threatening aquaculture.

A new phage therapy book edited by Aidan Coffey (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Colin Buttimer (University College Cork, Ireland) has been published by Caister Academic Press. The book is entitled "Bacterial Viruses: Exploitatio

Computational biologist Dr. Alejandro Reyes Muñoz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) discusses virus and phage basics, phage-host interactions, and the novel coronavirus on the Finding Genius Podcast.