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Tobi Nagel and Francesca Hodges have organized a hybrid meeting to discuss therapeutic phage bank recommendations. The meeting is scheduled for July 15th in Cairns, Australia from 1-2:30 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT+10) (5-10 m

The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is hosting the "VEGA 2024: Viral EcoGenomics and Applications" symposium, taking place on November 12-13, 2024, in Berkeley, California. The symposium aims to bring together the viral ecogenomics communi

PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research Journal has announced an impact factor increase to 3.5.

A recent episode of BBC Sounds' "In Our Time" interviewed Martha Clokie and James Ebdon about how phages can be used to track and cure bacterial illnesses.

Chantel Trost (University of Toronto) and colleagues found that the anti-CRISPR protein AcrIF25 disrupts the type I-F CRISPR-Cas system by pulling apart Cas7 from its guide RNA, one subunit at a time. (And it does this with no apparent enzy

Dinesh Subedi (Monash University) and colleagues have developed a five-phage cocktail, Entelli-02 against 156 clinical Enterobacter cloacae complex strains from the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. They show that Entelli-02 exhibits broad host

Hadil Onallah (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues have laid out a step-by-step protocol for compassionate phage therapy outlining phage matching, treatment, and monitoring for non-resolving infections.

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)-induced diarrhea in piglets can lead to weight loss and death. Michela Gambino (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues characterized a collection of phages infecting porcine ETEC, and a collection o

The (NIH Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) recently discussed a new suggested funding solicitation for phage therapy centers — here’s the recording of the council meeting!

The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is hosting the "VEGA 2024: Viral EcoGenomics and Applications" symposium, taking place on November 12-13, 2024, in Berkeley, California. The symposium aims to bring together the viral ecogenomics communi

The Phage Bioinformatics Wish List Survey is live! (Thanks to the 31 respondents to date! The data is shaping up to be super informative!) This survey aims to better understand the needs and satisfaction levels of phage biologists regardi

Jonas Fernbach (ETH Zurich) and colleagues used the PhagePromoter algorithm to identify intergenic loci in the S. aureus phage K genome for targeted payload integration, and validated their approach by engineering recombinant phages with bi

Deepto Mozumdar (UCSF) and colleagues show that jumbo phage ΦKZ assembles a lipid vesicle upon infection. This early phage infection (EPI) vesicle contains phage proteins, DNA, host lipids, and membrane proteins. It protects the phage genom

Helena Shomar from Institut Pasteur and colleagues identified over 2000 lanthipeptide biosynthetic gene clusters in Actinobacteria with anti-phage defense properties, which they termed "lanthiphages". These clusters, often found in defense

Sophia Zborowsky (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues demonstrate that alveolar macrophages reduce pulmonary phage density in a murine pneumonia model, limiting phage therapy efficacy against P. aeruginosa.

Chujin Ruan (China Agricultural University) and colleagues have shown that phage predation of E. coli during surface-associated growth increases plasmid transfer. They found that predation slows spatial demixing of two E. coli populations,

Attention phage researchers! You have until Monday June 24th to make your opinions (on phage banks) count! Tobi Nagel (Phages for Global Health) and Francesca Hodges (Innovate UK Business Connect) are working to capture the global phage co

NIAID's June 2024 Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) Council-approved concepts include new initiatives for 2026 on phage therapy for ESKAPE pathogens.

In a new preprint, Aleksander Szymczak (Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Poland) and colleagues investigate the triadic dynamics between the gastric microbiome, phageome, and host genotype. They reveal non-univers

Lizett Ortiz de Ora (UC Irvine) and colleagues have developed "Phollow," a live imaging method to track gut phage transmission in microbial communities and animals, revealing rapid virion uptake and dissemination.