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Samuel Greenrod (University of Oxford) and colleagues explored the effects of warming on the interaction between the P. aeruginosa and three diverse lytic phages. They found that while temperatures up to 40°C had minimal impact, 42°C signif

Hiba Baaziz (Virginia Tech) and colleagues showed that subtle changes in the lysis-lysogeny decision of Salmonella phage P22 can dramatically impact the emergence of phage resistance.

James Bull (University of Idaho) and colleagues published a new paper exploring how best to control phage recombination when mathematically modelling co-infection.

Siva Uppalapati (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues discovered that a Salmonella prophage terminase is redox sensitive — it unexpectedly switches into acting as a tRNAse under oxidative stress, arresting host translat

The Villa lab at UCSD is hiring two Research Technicians to help understand structural dynamics and macromolecular interactions (including phage-host interactions) at high resolution.

Danica Schmidtke (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on how the prototypic crAssphage demonstrates a phage-plasmid lifestyle, persisting extrachromosomally without integrating into the host’s chromosome.

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA is hiring a Researcher to investigate phage host range, genetic mobilization, and antibiotic resistance in staphylococci and streptococci, involving microbial genetics, biochemistry, and structural b

Milan Gerovac (University of Würzburg) and colleagues published a new paper revealing how phage-encoded proteins, particularly from jumbo phage ΦKZ, target and co-opt P. aeruginosa ribosomes immediately after infection. They make the case t

EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) is hiring a postdoc to explore phage-bacteria interactions within stream biofilms using microfluidic techniques.

This week on PhageCast, the team talked to Paul Turner about how his lab is predicting the trade-offs of bacterial resistance to phage, to achieve killing by reversing the antibiotic resistance. They also covered how these findings are tran

Alan Schmalstig (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and colleagues published a new paper on phage infection and killing of intracellular Mycobacterium abscessus.

Phages in space!! Phil Huss (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues discovered that phage-host interactions in microgravity onboard the International Space Station have unique dynamics. They saw significant differences in mutationa

Grace Beggs and colleagues at Princeton University are organizing a workshop called "Bacteria versus Phage: The Main Event" from January 10-12, 2024, focusing on the interactions between bacteria and phage, bringing together scientists inte

Guy Mason and colleagues found that E. coli can persistently grow during phage predation in spatially confined environments.

Jumpei Fujiki and colleagues explore the fitness trade-offs between phage and antibiotic sensitivity in phage-resistant variants.

G. Eric Bastien and colleagues have developed a machine learning model called Virus-Host Interaction Predictor (VHIP) to predict virus-host interactions and reconstruct complex virus-host networks in natural systems.

Claudia Igler (University of Manchester) is hiring a postdoc to combine microbiology and biophysics to advance mechanistic understanding of the functional diversity in phage lysis systems and the impact of changes in bacterial cell state an

Andrea Fossati just announced that their grant for investigating phage-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactions was funded by Vetenskapsradet (the Swedish Research Council).

Rafael Gonzalez-Serrano (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain) and colleagues have discovered that distantly related Alteromonas mediterranea phages shares its host recognition module with phages from distantly related families, shedding lig

Kaat Schroven (KU Leuven) and colleagues discovered that the phage protein PIT2 directly interacts with the LasR T2SS effector, interfering with P. aeruginosa quorum sensing and attenuating virulence, inspiring a new potential phage-encoded