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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

This week, Julie Callanan, a PhD student at APC Microbiome Ireland and University College Cork, introduces us to RNA phages, why they're so elusive, and how her research is beginning to unravel their secrets. The delight of finding Wally am

What is the best way to search an assembled phage contig against human metagenome datasets? Regular blastn at NCBI doesn't seem to include these, do we have to download the data to search locally or is there an online resource? — @jason_j_g

Alexandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published their safe IV treatment of 13 critically-ill, septic patients with a GMP-prepared S. aureus phage cocktail in Nature Microbiology. Jon

Vivek Mutalik (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues have published a new preprint on high-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli. Through systematic, genome-wide loss-of-function and gain-of-function studi

Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems on quantitative modeling of phage-antibiotic combination therapy. Their findings highlight the role of antibiotics and the immune

Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) and colleagues have shown that phages isolated from growth-stunted Bangladeshi children are different from those in non-stunted children. They show these phages are infectious i

Phages are extremely diverse at the genetic level, but not so much at the structural level... why? In an informative new review, Moïra Dion (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues have explored phage diversity at the structural, genomic a

Are there really 10^31 viral particles on Earth? Here's a new minireview by A. R. Mushegian (National Science Foundation) on how that number ("The Hendrix Product") was derived, and whether it needs to be revised.

Submit an abstract for the Monash-UCSD Bacteriophage Symposium (Mar 30, 2020, Melbourne, Australia).

ISME (International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, August 9-14, 2020, Cape Town, South Africa) will have a virus/phage session this year. Submit abstracts by March 6; propose round table topics by Feb 29!

What is the best way to search an assembled phage contig against human metagenome datasets? Regular blastn at NCBI doesn't seem to include these, do we have to download the data to search locally or is there an online resource? — @jason_j_g

Betty Kutter at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA seeks a motivated full-time post-doc to investigate the adaptation of phage infected cells to stationary phase and anaerobic growth.

Intralytix (Columbia, Maryland) is seeking a Research Scientist and a Clinical Trial Specialist.

Betty Kutter at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA seeks a motivated full-time post-doc to investigate the adaptation of phage infected cells to stationary phase and anaerobic growth.

Phagelux (Montreal, Canada), is seeking a medical writer to prepare documents for the FDA as they move their phage products toward approval.

University College Cork has an opening for an MSc student to study the role of anti-phage antibodies in the gut of mammals.

A lab at the University of Michigan is hiring a full-time research technician to support projects on host-parasite interactions that use model communities of E. coli and phages.

Are there really 10^31 viral particles on Earth? Here's a new minireview by A. R. Mushegian (National Science Foundation) on how that number ("The Hendrix Product") was derived, and whether it needs to be revised.

Intralytix (Columbia, Maryland) is seeking a Research Scientist and a Clinical Trial Specialist.