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Dong Li (Beijing University of Chemical Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on how phage proteins can sequester signaling molecules from TIR and cGAS-like antiviral defense enzymes. Also check out this explainer thread by coau

Elizabeth Burgener (Children's Hospital of Los Angeles) and colleagues published a new paper on how Pf phage impacts cystic fibrosis patients, with Pseudomonas infections, showing high Pf in sputum is associated with lung function decline a

Is the Nagoya Protocol doing its job to ensure countries get the benefits from their own genetic resources? Hassan Salem & Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Institute) argue that the protocol's implementation has impeded research due to incompa

Yolanda Huang's lab at SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, NY is hiring a technician for phage isolation efforts against gut anaerobes. We are interested in studying fundamental biology of bacteria-phage interactions in the gut microbiota. We are a n

What's it like to be a doctor treating patients with phage therapy in the US today? Dr. Gina Suh, Mayo Clinic infectious disease physician, tells us: - How she established phage therapy as an option for her patients at Mayo - How phages hav

Postdoctoral Researcher at The Huang Lab (SUNY Buffalo) in Buffalo, US Yolanda Huang's lab at SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, NY is hiring a postdoc to study bacteria-phage interactions among gut anaerobic phages using high-throughput genetics. We

Research Technician at The Huang Lab (University at Buffalo) in Buffalo, USA Yolanda Huang's lab at SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, NY is hiring a technician for phage isolation efforts against gut anaerobes. We are interested in studying fundamen

Roundup time! This month we explored phage-based gene editing in the microbiome, high schooler Kate Kelly shared her jam-packed 30 days in Stanford’s Bollyky lab, and Ritah Nakayinga from Kyambogo University discussed her phage cocktail to

Why don't we have phage therapy yet? We want to understand why. Come join the fun, with the new Podovirus podcast! 🎙️ Most recent episode: Jesus Fernandez-Rodriguez, PhD, VP of Technology at Eligo Bioscience, shares how their team is edi

Jyot Antani (Yale University) and colleagues developed a microscopy-based technique to measure phage attachment to bacterial cells. This method provides an attractive alternative to the (literally) century-old Phage Adsorption Assay because

François Rousset (Weizmann Institute of Science) and colleagues discovered a new immune signaling molecule: N7-cADPR, which is produced by phage-stimulated TIR proteins. It activates a bacterial caspase, which then degrades essential protei

Tong Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and colleagues discovered a bacterial immunity protein that senses two unrelated phage proteins, showing that CapRelSJ46 in E. coli can directly bind two structurally different phage protei

Peter Erdmann Dougherty (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues isolated and sequenced 8 novel phages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria, characterizing their genomic, phylogenetic, and morphological traits. They identified DNA modific

PHIOGEN is seeking to explore patient experiences with recurrent UTIs and attitudes toward phage therapeutics: the study involves a brief screening questionnaire followed by a survey for qualified participants who experience ongoing UTI sym

A UK-based laboratory is hiring a Microbiology Laboratory Scientist to perform microbiological testing, maintain quality standards, and contribute to method development and validation for pharmaceutical products.

The University of Liverpool is hiring a PhD student to optimize phage therapy for cystic fibrosis lung infections by studying biofilms and phage-host dynamics.

The Sorek lab at LMU Munich's Gene Center is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to study innate immune responses against phages using biochemistry, immunology, and computational approaches.

Atif Khan (phage scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Chennai, India and longtime Phage Directory volunteer) was interviewed on the "You Make Me Sick!" podcast about his work. They talk phages, biofilms, biofouling, multidrug-r

The Phage Collection Project, led by early career researchers at the University of Southampton, is pioneering a citizen science initiative to tackle AMR. The project combines public education, clinical biobanking, and policy advocacy to ad

Using a dataset of interactions between 403 Escherichia strains and 96 phages, researchers predicted strain-level phage-bacteria outcomes from genomic data alone (AUROC 86%) and found that adsorption factors explain most interactions while