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PhagoMed, an Austrian phage therapy company, announced this week that it’s received 1.5 million Euro in additional investment!

Listen to Paul Turner of Yale describe his group’s phage research and phage therapy work (they’ve treated 16 patients so far!) on This Week in Evolution (TWiEVO), an ASM podcast. This one was recorded live at last week’s ASM Microbe confere

Submissions are now open to a new Bacteriophage Collection within the journal Microbial Genomics (a Microbiology Society journal). Here’s their tweet: #Bacteriophages are a key tool in biological research, and this new collection will bring

College Station, TX Required Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Hands-on research experience related to phage biology. - Familiar with operating and maintaining common laboratory and/or technical equipment. - Familiar with maintain

Dr. Andrew Page, Norwich, UK The microbes that live inside our guts are mostly a mystery to science. We know they have an impact on our health and wellbeing that extends far beyond the gut but science currently doesn’t fully understand how

Dr. Andrew Page, Norwich, UK The microbes that live inside our guts are mostly a mystery to science. We know they have an impact on our health and wellbeing that extends far beyond the gut but science currently doesn’t fully understand how

This week, we’re showcasing a story we received from Karen Adler, an MSc student in Dr. Ronen Hazan's lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She tells us about the phage work their lab is doing with high school students, some of the res

##### Call for Posters for Phage Futures Europe, Brussels, September 25-26 Looking to showcase your recent work to the phage therapy community? Phage Futures Europe is accepting abstract submissions for poster presentations. Your poster wil

Mian Li Ooi and colleagues at the University of Adelaide and Ampliphi Biosciences published a paper on their use of phage therapy in a phase I clinical trial to treat patients with chronic rhinosinusitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The

Nicolas Dufour of the Institut Pasteur and colleagues have shown that lysis of E. coli by phages in mice (as a treatment for pneumonia) did not increase innate inflammatory responses compared to an antibiotic treatment.

The International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya has partnered with the Université Laval in Canada to develop phage products against Salmonella to treat poultry in Kenya. The project is funded by Canada’s International Development Re

The winner of the Microbiology Society’s 2019 Fleming Prize for outstanding research is Prof. Peter Fineran, Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Watch Prof. Fineran’s award talk on phage resistance systems here.

Sociovirology is the study of conflict, cooperation and communication of viruses. To get up to speed on this rapidly advancing new field, check out this news feature in Nature by Elie Doglin.

Wageningen, Netherlands Micreos Food Safety develops natural phage products against dangerous bacteria in the food chain and is viewed as product leader in this field. During your internship, you will assist our researchers in the laborator

Ness Ziona, Israel BiomX is a leading Israeli biotech company developing microbiome-based novel therapeutics. We are looking for a highly-motivated M.Sc.-level research assistant to join our Microbiology team. By joining this team, you will

Prof. Lone Brøndsted, Copenhagen, Denmark The world-wide threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria has made WHO and EU emphasize the urgent need for innovative research to develop alternatives to antibiotics against Gram-negative pathogens. T

Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens and Dr. Mark Webber, Norwich, UK We are recruiting a student on a fully-funded PhD project on the use of bacteriophages as biocontrol agents for antimicrobial resistant pathogens. The project is an academic-industry

Dr. Colin Hill, Cork, Ireland APC Microbiome Ireland is a trans-disciplinary research centre, with clinicians, clinician- scientists and basic scientists from diverse backgrounds working in teams, sharing ideas and resources. The Post-Docto

Mahsa Yazdi Gorgan, Iran I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Isfahan, Iran. My thesis was entitled “Isolation and characterization of lytic bacteriophages against some of the most common bacterial causes

Mahsa Yazdi Gorgan, Iran I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Isfahan, Iran. My thesis was entitled “Isolation and characterization of lytic bacteriophages against some of the most common bacterial causes