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Are you working on a manuscript related to novel phage bioinformatics tools, AI in phage biology or therapy, or tools for host discovery, prediction, phage characterization, or similar? It's not too late to submit to PHAGE journal's upcomi

To celebrate Phage Week (22-28 October), Phage Directory is holding a Twitter #scicomm challenge! To participate, all you need to do is create Twitter posts that align with the daily prompts (e.g. tag your favourite phage people, tag your f

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

Twitter call-out from Michael Laub; Question for phage tweeps: does EOP stand for 'efficiency of plating' or 'efficiency of plaquing'? I've seen both in the literature. Am hoping this one doesn't stoke emotions comparable to the argument ab

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

For PHAVES #23 next week (Oct 12 at 9AM CEST), Bjorn Criel, PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, the Laboratory of Applied Biotechnology, at Ghent University, will give a talk on PhaLP: A Database for the Study of Phage Lytic Proteins and The

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

Head on over to Twitter to follow Dr. Ellie Jameson for #InkTober2021 where Ellie uploads a new phage drawing, cartoon or animation everyday!

Phage Futures EU 2021 returns in-person in Brussels, Belgium on November 23-24! The theme will be 'Translating phage-based applications into clinically and commercially viable therapeutics'. The 'super earlybird' deadline is Oct 1. And you

Twitter call out from Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team: Would you like to be a part of the #WorldPhageWeek Celebration (coming up in late October 2021) as an organization or a genomic company? You can do this through the following: • Spo

Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Barr who was named a 2021 Victorian Tall Poppy Award winner! The Tall Poppy Award was created to recognise Australian intellectual and scientific excellence. Dr. Barr leads a 14-member research group at Monash

Working on a manuscript related to novel phage bioinformatics tools, AI in phage biology or therapy, or tools for host discovery, prediction, phage characterization, or similar? Consider submitting your next paper to PHAGE journal's upcomin

For our next PHAVES (Tues, Oct 5 at 9AM CEST) we have Bjorn Criel, a PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, who will be talking about PhaLP: a database of Phage Lytic Proteins. Register for this and all upcoming seminars here!

Question for the phage community via Twitter from Alexander Hynes, Assist. Prof. at McMaster University: "I've been seeing more phage characterization papers that "optimize MOI" for higher titres. Why? I don't see biological insight, and wh

Another feather in the cap for African phage researchers!! Dr. Jerrold Agbankpe was awarded the Iso Lomso Visiting Scholar Award to collaborate with researchers at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study to develop phages as future a

Twitter call-out by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD: "If you live in Cambodia & want to participate in a phage hunt to cure superbug infections common in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients, contact me, Dr. Saima Aslam or IPATH at IPATH@health.ucsd.edu.

Dear Phage aficionados, We are excited to announce the Inaugural Symposium on Bacteriophages and Bacteriophage-derived Technologies to be held on December 10th 2021 in Singapore, jointly organised by Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU)

For our next PHAVES (Tues, Oct 5 at 9AM CEST) we have Bjorn Criel, a PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, who will be talking about PhaLP: a database of Phage Lytic Proteins. Register for this and all upcoming seminars here!

Missed out on a PHAVES seminar? You can catch up on all the PHAVES at the Phage Directory Youtube. Newly added videos: - Aël Hardy's PHAVES talk on the inhibition of phage infection by antibiotics - Dr. Saima Aslam's PHAVES talk on clinica

Phage Futures EU 2021 returns in-person in Brussels, Belgium on November 23-24! The theme will be 'Translating phage-based applications into clinically and commercially viable therapeutics'. The 'super earlybird' deadline is Oct 1. And you