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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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week, Dr. Ramesh Nachimuthu reflects on the ICBRAMR conference, which took place in Vellore, India in December 2019 and focused on the promise of phages in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Conference theme: Paradigm shift in

7-year old Australian patient successfully treated with community-sourced phages The staff of the Infectious Diseases and Orthopaedics departments of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research Irede

SciPhage is a women-led biotech company out of Colombia aiming to bring science into society and to support female scientists who want to start a biotech business. To get their Salmonella phage cocktail to market, they have announced a fund

The new Bacterial-Viral BRC (BV-BRC), a collaboration between the PATRIC/RAST and IRD/ViPR teams, will be offering a joint bacterial and viral workshop from March 23 through 27 at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.

In case you missed it, last week, along with the help of Sabrina Green and Ella Balasa, we provided live coverage of Phage Futures Congress 2020. Find highlights on our website, and check out coverage on Twitter (#PhageFutures) and Instagra

First jumbophages and megaphages... now we have 'huge phages'. Basem Al-Shayeb (UC Berkeley) and colleagues have identified and classified hundreds of new giant phage genomes (one as large as 735 kb) from human, animal and environmental mic

The Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) conference (June 22-25 2020, Guelph, Ontario) will have an 'All about Phages' session! Register here.

It's hard to learn about prophage biology from genome sequence data alone. In a new paper, Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues at the University of Liverpool show us how they've used transcriptomic data to explore prophage bio

Julie Callanan (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues have greatly expanded the number of known ssRNA phage genomes. As of June 2019, only 12 were available in NCBI, but they sifted through 82 publicly available metatranscriptomes and dete

We've seen Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) in the news a lot lately—here's an interview with Greg Merril, APT's CEO, a podcast interview with a patient whose leg was saved by APT's phages, and a news article on APT's selection for Startup

Armata Pharmaceuticals and Innoviva have announced a $25 Million investment to support Armata's phage cocktail development.

BiomX announces dual listing on the Tel-Aviv stock exchange.