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Merry Christmas! We'll be taking a break from Capsid & Tail next week, but we'll be back in the new year, starting with a reflection on 2019 and a look at where Phage Directory is headed in 2020! P.S. The 2020 guest-writing schedule is ret

Biocrusts are photosynthetic hotspots in deserts that face an uncertain future due to climate change-induced changes in rainfall. Marc Van Goethem (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) and colleagues have published a study in mBio characterizin

NIAID will renew funding ($102.5 million over 7 years) for the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), and this time it includes funds for a phage therapy study! The ARLG is a global consortium of scientific experts that leads a c

It's almost the holiday season! Here's Harvard postdoc Siân Owen's template for making paper phages to decorate your lab or office! (Of course, these are worthwhile to make year-round!)

Here's an excellent recent documentary about the history and state of phage therapy by ARTE, a French/German public broadcast service (54 min). It's available until Dec 31 and well worth the watch! For more, read last week's Capsid & Tail,

This week, Aël Hardy, an MD-PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, explores physicians’ awareness about phages and how it could be improved. He interviewed two French physicians who recently used phages to treat some of their m

Two groups have published papers showing how jumbo phages can create nucleus-like structures in their hosts to protect phage DNA from CRISPR-Cas systems. Read Senén Mendoza (UCSF) and colleagues' paper on how this works for a Pseudomonas ph

Dr. Thomas Böttcher, head of an Emmy Noether junior research group at the University of Konstanz in Germany has received an ERC Consolidator Grant (around 2 million Euro over 5 years) to study chemical factors that control the transition of

The Turner lab at Yale has successfully treated 13 patients with phages so far. Now, the team has been awarded support from the Blavatnik Fund, which helps Yale scientists commercialize their discoveries. The support has made it possible fo

CTV News in Canada has done a feature on phage therapy, which follows a Canadian cystic fibrosis patient as she travels to Yale University for phage treatment.

The Dutch phage company Micreos has urged members of the European Parliament to support authorization of its product, Listex, saying the EU's public health directorate has failed to appropriately regulate the product (which is intended to t

Actiphage is a commercially-available, phage-based diagnostic developed by PBD Biotech for detection of live mycobacteria. New paper describing how Actiphage works | Press release

The VEGA Symposium will happen March 22-23, 2020 in Oakland, CA. Hosted by the Joint Genome Institute, the goals are to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to capture and characterize uncultivated viru

Danish Malik at Loughborough University is hiring a research associate to work on phage therapeutic process development, including strategies for production, purification, encapsulation and process monitoring.

Joseph Bondy-Denomy and David Agard at UCSF are hiring a postdoc related to their recent work on how a phage nucleus-like structure shields its DNA from CRISPR.

The Dutch phage company Micreos has urged members of the European Parliament to support authorization of its product, Listex, saying the EU's public health directorate has failed to appropriately regulate the product (which is intended to t

Thanks so much to Sylvain Moineau at Laval University, David Speicher at McMaster University, and Hany Anany at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for hosting us these last couple of weeks! It's been fantastic to have the opportunity to prese

Danish Malik at Loughborough University is hiring a research associate to work on phage therapeutic process development, including strategies for production, purification, encapsulation and process monitoring.

Joseph Bondy-Denomy and David Agard at UCSF are hiring a postdoc related to their recent work on how a phage nucleus-like structure shields its DNA from CRISPR.

Thanks so much to Sylvain Moineau at Laval University, David Speicher at McMaster University, and Hany Anany at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for hosting us these last couple of weeks! It's been fantastic to have the opportunity to prese