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The 2019 Evergreen Bacteriophage Meeting, taking place Aug 4-9, 2019 in Olympia, Washington, is now open for registration! If you work with phages, this iconic biennial (once per 2 years) meeting is not to be missed! *COMING SOON: We're he

Want to learn to analyze your (phage) genomes? The PATRIC/RAST teams will be offering a tutorial at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL from Apr 16-18, 2019. Email Lisa Hundley to sign up (hurry, workshop is free BUT l

Check out this exciting new preprint from the Banfield lab and colleagues. They sequenced DNA from diverse ecosystems and found HUNDREDS of huge phage genomes (up to 716 kbp). The phages they found encode lots of new things phages don't typ

Listen to Dr. Minmin Yen, co-founder & CEO of the new biotech startup PhagePro, discuss her company's goals of preventing cholera with phages on the podcast "Important, Not Important". An especially great listen for grad students & postdocs

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Dr. Rafał Mostowy We are looking for a postdoc with strong quantitative skills as well as expertise in bioinformatics and computational genomics. The general aim of the project is to explore the diversity and specificity of interactions bet

Raniero Lorenzetti Rome, Italy Our group is looking to begin isolating and characterizing phages, first against fish pathogens, mainly at the molecular level. In the future, we will seek to exploit phages to control many animal pathogens. W

Steffanie Strathdee San Diego, CA Want to help #phagetherapy patients? Our collaboration between @IPATH & @TAMU_CPT needs environmental samples for #phagehunts! You can help by sending soil samples to @TAMU_CPT. Message Steffanie Strathdee

We attended Phage Futures 2019 at the end of January, and now present our full recap of the event. The first annual Phage Futures Congress, hosted by Kisaco Research, was held in Washington, DC from January 29-30, 2019. The event brought in

Dr. Michael Laub The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has an opening for a Research Technician to join the laboratory of Dr. Michael Laub in the Biology Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Principal research interests of

Prasanth Manohar I have completed my Ph.D. at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. My research project deals with the characterization of bacteriophages infecting E. coli, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter species. I have expertise

Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life is the memoir of Mallory Smith, whose story inspired us to create Phage Directory. It comes out next week (Mar 12). Mallory was set to receive phage therapy in November 2017 after a Burkholderia cepacia i

If you know anyone who hasn't heard Tom and Steffanie's story yet, here's an in-depth podcast interview with them on the Super Awesome Science Show that you can share. It also goes into phage use in the livestock industry in an interview wi

Texas A&M University is a major hub of phage research, and the Center for Phage Technology there is the only state-funded phage research center in the US. Learn about the center and their involvement in Tom Patterson's phage therapy case he

As a specialist in infectious diseases, I have been interested in phage therapy as long as I can remember, but only recently have I felt comfortable saying this out loud. - Dr. David Pride, UCSD. Read more about his perspective in this arti

Marco Cafora and colleagues have developed a zebrafish model of cystic fibrosis and used it to show that phage therapy can treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa (and modulate immune response in the fish). This is the first time that phage therapy ha

Filter results of BLAST analysis by viral host species with this new tool: VHost-Classifier, created by Ezra Kitson and Curtis Suttle. (Paper / Github)

Dr. Michael Laub The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has an opening for a Research Technician to join the laboratory of Dr. Michael Laub in the Biology Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Principal research interests of

Prasanth Manohar I have completed my Ph.D. at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. My research project deals with the characterization of bacteriophages infecting E. coli, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter species. I have expertise

To understand what it's like to take part in phage crowdsourcing, we interviewed five labs who've contributed phages on behalf of a patient. ## Recap: where are we at with this effort? Back in November, we told you about a phage crowdsourci