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How do bacteria in the gut interact with phages? In a new Cell Host & Microbe paper, Paola Soto-Perez and colleagues from UCSF show that Eggerthella lenta, a prevalent bacterial member of the human gut microbiota, uses CRISPR-Cas to target

If you'd like a hard copy of the special issue "Hurdles for Phage Therapy to Become A Reality", a compilation of about 30 peer-reviewed articles published by the journal Viruses over the course of 2018 and 2019, you can order one here for a

How close are we to being able to treat chickens with phages? This week, we cover a recent study published by Viviana Clavijo and colleagues from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. They tested a 6-phage cocktail on chickens in a comm

An interdisciplinary research team at Georgia Tech and the Institut Pasteur has received a 5-year, $2.5 million NIH grant to study phage-immune interactions during treatment of respiratory infections with phages. The team is led by Joshua W

We've known for a while that Vibrio cholerae makes cholera toxin because of a phage, and that the phage's receptor is Vibrio's toxin coregulated pilus (Tcp). But how does the phage actually get in? Here's a new paper by Miguel Gutierrez-Rod

The Oxford Bacteriophage Conference is happening next week (Sept 11-12 in Oxford, UK)! The scope: applying phage in medicine, food and biotechnology. Are you going to this conference? We're looking for a PhD student or postdoc to write a b

Interested in phages and food safety? Attend an open seminar in Aarhus, Denmark on Sept. 25. Learn about current foodborne disease trends in the EU, opportunities for producing safer fresh foods, and join discussions about the EU legislatio

Need phage help? BB Phage Consultancy has just opened its doors! BB Phage is led by Ben Burrowes, PhD, and is based in Georgetown, Texas. They provide wet-lab services like phage isolation, purification and characterization, lab setup, prot

We are urgently seeking Mycobacterium avium phages for a patient with bronchiectasis and a pan-resistant M. avium lung infection in Sydney, Australia. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strai

Dr. Joshua Weitz, Atlanta, Georgia The postdoc will lead efforts to develop analytical and computational models of virus-microbe interactions with an emphasis on viral control of microbial community dynamics. Requirements include: (1) PhD i

Dr. Laurent Debarbieux, Paris, France We are seeking a postdoc to join an NIH supported project on phage therapy to investigate the role of the immune system during the treatment of pneumonia initiated by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomo

Dr. Tim Blower, Durham, UK Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in BREX phage-resistance systems. BREX methylates the host at specific recognition sequences, but the mechanism of BREX phage protection is not yet u

Dr. Laurent Debarbieux, Paris, France We are seeking a postdoc to join an NIH supported project on phage therapy to investigate the role of the immune system during the treatment of pneumonia initiated by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomo

Dr. Joshua Weitz, Atlanta, Georgia The postdoc will lead efforts to develop analytical and computational models of virus-microbe interactions with an emphasis on viral control of microbial community dynamics. Requirements include: (1) PhD i

Dr. Tim Blower, Durham, UK Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in BREX phage-resistance systems. BREX methylates the host at specific recognition sequences, but the mechanism of BREX phage protection is not yet u

Need phage help? BB Phage Consultancy has just opened its doors! BB Phage is led by Ben Burrowes, PhD, and is based in Georgetown, Texas. They provide wet-lab services like phage isolation, purification and characterization, lab setup, prot

Interested in phages and food safety? Attend an open seminar in Aarhus, Denmark on Sept. 25. Learn about current foodborne disease trends in the EU, opportunities for producing safer fresh foods, and join discussions about the EU legislatio

We've known for a while that Vibrio cholerae makes cholera toxin because of a phage, and that the phage's receptor is Vibrio's toxin coregulated pilus (Tcp). But how does the phage actually get in? Here's a new paper by Miguel Gutierrez-Rod

An interdisciplinary research team at Georgia Tech and the Institut Pasteur has received a 5-year, $2.5 million NIH grant to study phage-immune interactions during treatment of respiratory infections with phages. The team is led by Joshua W

The Oxford Bacteriophage Conference is happening next week (Sept 11-12 in Oxford, UK)! The scope: applying phage in medicine, food and biotechnology. Are you going to this conference? We're looking for a PhD student or postdoc to write a b