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Our lovely phage community would not exist without the hard work of some incredible phage enthusiasts! This week, we're recognizing a few of our Phage Directory volunteers for some great stuff they've done lately. Did you know that Capsid &

The Phage Australia network recently shipped a purified phage to collaborators across the country, and had everyone titre it and report back. Stephanie Lynch, who spearheaded this effort, tells us what was done and what the team learned. Be

For the first time since 2019 the yearly European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) took place in-person. Jessica Neubauer, MSc student and Phage Directory volunteer, was there to report on all phings phage!

Now that we’ve covered tracking phage metadata and building identities for our phages, it’s time to consider how our phages fit into our biobanks. This week in Capsid and Tail, Jan Zheng explains his thinking on how to organize phage bioban

With feedback from users, the Instill platform is evolving. This week Katharine Muscat, phage PhD student and volunteer Instill coordinator, shares how members have benefited from and contributed to Instill, and what they've learned from te

What's in a phage name, and how can we make it count? Should we give phages pet names or serial numbers? This week Jan Zheng continues his informal blog series on phage data, with a new post on how he's thinking about naming phages. Once we

Undergraduate phage enthusiast Sayde Perry’s 2022 guide to the former Phage Directory Slack community, its channels and conversations. The community is now retired. At the time of publication, the Phage Directory Slack community had over te

phageSuisse is a nonprofit founded to bring together health actors working or wishing to work with phages in Switzerland. This week, Vera Neumeier shares a recap of four recent phageSuisse webinars. phageSuisse is a non-profit organization

From Feb 14th-16th, the who's who of the phage world is getting together to discuss everything from isolating phages from hospital wastewater to the role of the immune system in phage therapy! This week, University of Vienna MSc student Je

Good morning, 2022! We’re extremely proud of our work empowering the community, running events like Evergreen and building Instill. This year, we'll be focused on building the “operating system” for phage therapy. From lab workflows to web

It's our last issue of the year! We reflect on what we're especially proud of from this year, and highlight some stats on where we're at as a community! Also: a giant thanks to each of our amazing volunteers! Hi phage friends, Another year

We're compiling the results of our State of Phage 2020 Survey, and we're excited to show you a third snapshot of the findings! Today we're focusing on phage collections; which phages are labs collecting, how many do they have of each, and w

This week, we're featuring an article co-published with PHAGE Journal highlighting a selection of talks from the Evergreen 2021 conference, written by a group of phage-enthusiastic students and postdocs who attended! This week's feature ar

Last week, in collaboration with Dr. Betty Kutter and her unstoppable team, we helped run the iconic Evergreen International Phage Meeting — but with a twist — this time it was a hybrid virtual/in-person event! We are overjoyed with how it

This week, we're featuring a guest post by Raphael Hans Lwesya, MSc student at Makerere University in Uganda and founder of thephage.xyz, a new phage-related info hub. Raphael shares his thoughts on phage technology development in Africa, h

Are your manuscripts meeting their potential? We're launching a new community initiative called Instill Science to help you raise your impact (and get credit for helping your fellow phage community members do the same). ## Could I have publ

In case you haven't heard, the Evergreen Phage Meeting is happening both in person and online this year in Olympia, Washington from Aug 1-6. This week, we're highlighting what to expect from this meeting (via a letter from Betty Kutter) and

For the 2nd webinar of the Phage Bioinformatics Webinar Series jointly organized by IBRC and Phage Directory, we hosted Katelyn McNair, a research scholar at the University of California, Irvine and San Diego State University. This week, we

We attended Kisaco Research's Phage Futures Congress 2021 at the end of February, and now present our recap of the event. We hope to provide a window into what you missed, and/or a refresher if you were there! The third annual Phage Futures

This week, we (co-)hosted three webinars: Africa Phage Forum #2 with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, the first event of a new IBRC Phage Bioinformatics Series with Deborah Jacobs-Sera, and PHAVES #12 with Dr. Betty Kutter. Here are the recordings