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Important question: if I had a student who wanted to make an undomesticated bacteriophage mutant that could not make plaques, other than conditionally, is there a way other than bashing plaque isolates at two temperatures after random mutag

Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio investigating Enterococcus faecalis interactions with a virulent phage. They highlight roles for polysaccharide antigens and DNA mi

STAT Madness has begun and there are 2 days left in round 1. Vote for the best biomedical innovations (in a "March Madness"-style format!). Phage therapy for alcoholic liver disease (UCSD) is in the running!

The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Alberta invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair tenure-track position at the assistant professor level. Seeking outstanding candidates with a strong re

Reminder: thinking of submitting an abstract for Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this July? The abstract deadline is coming up soon: March 16th!

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Need phages for your research? This week, we bring you a guide on how to use Phage Directory to find the phages you need. We started our Phage Alerts system in response to a patient's imminent need for phages, and we still use it for these

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

I wish to find out from phage biologists on this platform what they would like to see in terms of metadata as a minimum for a characterised bacteriophage? Any comments can be sent to @AgendiaJuandem on twitter. Thanks

Registration and abstract submission is now open for Viruses of Microbes 2020, which will be hosted in Guimarães, Portugal July 13-17, 2020! P.S. Phage Directory is proud to have built the abstract submission and review system for this eve

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues have published a new preprint on Acinetobacter baumannii phage resistance. They found that phage-resistant mutants were sensitive to complement, other phages, and an

A new Infection and Immunity minireview by Mihnea Mangalea and Breck Duerkop (University of Colorado) explores mechanisms and consequences of phage resistance.

Robert Schooley and Steffanie Strathdee wrote a commentary describing their take on the phage therapy case series published this month by the Iredell group, and on phage therapy as a field of growing importance. They consider this paper to

Luís Melo (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues have published a new review on the efficacy of preclinical phage therapy done in the last 10 years.

DeepPetri is an AI-based tool by Phages4A that semi-automatically determines, measures, and categorizes lysis zones of images of phage spot tests. Sign up to be notified when they launch, and stay tuned to take part in a survey looking at h

I wish to find out from phage biologists on this platform what they would like to see in terms of metadata as a minimum for a characterised bacteriophage? Any comments can be sent to @AgendiaJuandem on twitter. Thanks

Apply to work on a CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) project in Marseille, France involving characterizing phages against phytopathogenic bacteria.

Dr. Ellie Jameson (University of Warwick) is hiring a postdoc research fellow for a project on phage cocktail development. Hurry - today is the application deadline!

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues have published a new preprint on Acinetobacter baumannii phage resistance. They found that phage-resistant mutants were sensitive to complement, other phages, and an

Apply to work on a CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) project in Marseille, France involving characterizing phages against phytopathogenic bacteria.