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This week is a special, exciting week for Phage Directory! We’ve got big news pertaining to funding, new directions, and a website makeover! And to balance out all the NEW, our feature article this week focuses on something that’s staying t

Bayer has teamed up with the Israeli life sciences investment company Trendlines to form a new biotech company, Ecophage, which will develop phage-based treatments of crop diseases.

Pherecydes Pharma is joining forces with BIOASTER, a French not-for-profit foundation that brings together academic, industry and its own capacities to execute high-impact, collaborative projects, to explore the use of phage therapy to trea

BiomX, a biotech company developing natural and engineered phages to treat microbiome diseases, announced a merger agreement with Chardan Healthcare Acquisition Corp. The combined company is expected to be listed on the New York Stock Excha

The Burroughs-Wellcome fund has announced a grant to fund study of the interplay between human and microbial biology. The deadline is November 15, 2019. Perhaps phage researchers studying phage interactions with the microbiome/pathogens/hum

Phage surprises all around! Emma Piligrimova and colleagues at the Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms in Russia published a paper on a new Bacillus phage that was previously thought to be a plasmid, and whic

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Alfred Fillol-Salom (Univ. of Glasgow) and colleagues have uncovered how Gram-negative phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs), a universal class of mobile genetic elements that impact bacterial virulence, hijack phage machinery for the

Simon Roux and a multidisciplinary team of colleagues have found that inoviruses (filamentous, single stranded DNA phages that replicate without killing their host) are much more prevalent than previously thought, and they even infect archa

Amna Mian University of Lahore Lahore, Pakistan I want to sequence my phage genomes. Could someone tell me where to send, and about the cost? Please email me at amnaafmian@gmail.com if you can help.

The Biomedical Technician shall work with/in Naval Medical Research Center-Frederick Biological Defense Research Directorate’s Genomics Department. The Genomics Department has a mission to apply bioinformatics and cutting edge, high-through

Dr. Joey Talbert The Talbert Research Group in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition at Iowa State University seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join a multidisciplinary group focused on protein chemistry and enzyme techn

The Director will provide an important leadership role in Microbiology by overseeing the day to day operation of the ContraFect Microbiology Laboratory and the performance of clinical microbiology development studies in the field of protein

Armata is seeking a Research Associate I/II to work with the R&D team. The candidate will support the overall program goals and strategy of the group, which include significant laboratory activities such as phage engineering and characteriz

The Biomedical Technician shall work with/in Naval Medical Research Center-Frederick Biological Defense Research Directorate’s Genomics Department. The Genomics Department has a mission to apply bioinformatics and cutting edge, high-through

Amna Mian University of Lahore Lahore, Pakistan I want to sequence my phage genomes. Could someone tell me where to send, and about the cost? Please email me at amnaafmian@gmail.com if you can help.

Noel-David Nogbou Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Pretoria, South Africa Hello, I am looking for Acinetobacter baumannii bacteriophages and Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage OMKO1. This is for a research project. If you can help, plea

## Phage Directory, expanded Dear phage fans, You may have noticed some improvements and differences around the site, and we have some exciting news to share! We've heard lots of feedback over the past year, and we've made some additions

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Before now, no virus has been reported to infect ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) from the phylum Thaumarchaeota (ubiquitous marine archaea). However, a new paper by Jong-Geol Kim (Chungbuk National Univ.) and colleagues describes the isolat