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Mark your calendars for another exciting translational phage conference! The Bacteriophage Therapy Summit will take place in Boston, Massachusetts March 26-27, 2019. The meeting will focus on the discovery, translation and acceleration of p

The American Society for Microbiology will host ASM Microbe 2019 in San Francisco June 20-24, and the abstract submission deadline is Jan. 15, 2019—submit yours here!

Did you know ASM has a phage group called Division M?. Members are invited to attend Division M's Business Meeting on June 21 at 5 PM (at ASM Microbe 2019) for food, drinks and (phage) conversation!

Not one but TWO interesting new phage methods papers have just been published by KU Leuven researchers. The first, by Hanne Hendrix et al. details how to screen for growth-inhibitory proteins made by phages. The second, by Jeroen De Smet et

Have a question or request for the phage community? Post it here and reach > 200 phage enthusiasts spanning academia, industry, medicine, and beyond. Feel free to be creative about what you might ask! (e.g. collaborations, advice, seeking o

On New Year's Eve, we got a request for Citrobacter phages to treat a sea turtle's antibiotic-resistant shell infection. If you can help, please email staff@phage.directory! Update: THANK YOU to the labs of @GroseLab of BYU, @RandallJDeJon

This week, we’re sharing insights from our experience talking to middle school kids about phages, phage therapy, and Phage Directory. This month, Jan and I were asked to talk to a bunch of grade 7 and 8 kids in the small, rural town of Olds

Justin Silpe and Bonnie Bassler discovered that a Vibrio cholerae phage senses its host’s quorum sensing molecules and lyses only when enough hosts are present in the surrounding area. By engineering this system, they got phages to lyse in

A large group of leaders in the phage community and beyond has published a set of minimum standards that should be reported alongside any new, uncultivated viral sequence. If more of the community adopts these standards, it will be easier f

Congratulations to Jesca Nakavuma and her team of phage researchers in Uganda for winning an $800,000 grant from the African Union. The grant will support their development of phage products combating antibiotic resistant bacteria in fish.

Dr. David Pride, MD, PhD The Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) at the University of California, San Diego is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the effects of phages in altering the human microbiome

Dr. Ignacio Mir-Sanchis The lab of Ignacio Mir-Sanchis at Umeå University in Sweden has two funded postdoctoral positions open. Both positions will focus on gene expression and replication of Staphylococcal mobile genetic elements (includin

This week, we bring you a Q&A with BiomX CBO Assaf Oron. This week, we bring you a Q&A with BiomX CBO Assaf Oron. BiomX is a biotech company commercializing a platform for using phages as tools to eradicate bacteria associated with chronic

Christian Møller-Olsen et al. just published an article in Scientific Reports showing that an E. coli phage can kill its host intracellularly, and that it kills more efficiently when human bladder epithelial cells are present. This corrobor

The dairy industry has historically seen phages as a threat to productions, but Samuel D. Alcaine, a Cornell professor researching dairy fermentations, makes the point here that phages could also be beneficial to the industry.

Lytic phages are usually thought to be best for therapy, but this recent review by Rodrigo Monteiro et al. makes a case for giving temperate phages a second look.

Dr. Li Deng The Institute of Virology is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for the newly funded ERC project, with a particular emphasis on bacteriophage communities. The successful applicant will be involved in the developm

Dr. Chris Kenyon Chris Kenyon's group at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerpen, Belgium is seeking a pre-doctoral researcher to study antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. This will involve developing phage cocktails

This week, we explore Belgium's unique new way of treating patients with phages... We've talked about emergency/compassionate phage therapy cases, where patients get phages in the case of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections. T

Sarah Kronheim et al. published a paper in Nature this week on a new mechanism of chemical phage defense in Streptomyces. Here's a News and Views piece by Martha Clokie and an Ars Technica piece on the work.