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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

As your phage collection grows, keeping track of your phages and associated data becomes increasingly important. This week, Jan Zheng explores how to rein in all that data before it gets out of control. As our collections of phages grow, ke

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

As the field of phage research is increasingly becoming data-driven and intertwined with artificial intelligence (AI), predicting phage-host interactions can provide new biological insights and support the development of personalized phage

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

This week, we’re featuring a post by Ellina Trofimova, software engineer-turned-MSc student at Macquarie University in Australia. She tells us about the Plaque Size Tool she’s developed, including how it came about and what it can do! About

This week, we're featuring a post by Michael Shamash, a graduate student at McGill University in Canada, who developed the new phage plaque counting app OnePetri! He takes us through the story behind the app, how it works, and what its futu

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

Last month in our PHAVES series, Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab, introduced the Viral Host Range Database their group has developed. This online resource lets you find, document, analyze and distribute information

This week, we've got highlights and recordings for 3 webinars we hosted this month: An interview with Dr. Randy Fish on clinical phage therapy for diabetic foot wounds, a talk by Dr. Clara Torres-Barceló on plant pathogen phage research, an

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

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

For this week's feature article, we interviewed Dr. Arkadiusz Wojtasik, a Production Director at Proteon Pharmaceuticals, about how his team uses the Cellexus CellMaker to produce phage for livestock farming. Phage manufacturing is a known

Hello 2021!! This year, we're focusing on empowering the phage community with the knowledge and tools it needs to overcome phage research challenges & help others do the same. Happy New Year everyone! After a great couple of weeks reflectin

This week, Dr. Rohit Kongari interviewed Dr. Vivek Mutalik of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory about his journey to become a phage researcher, and how he's using his engineering background and penchant to develop tools to answer questi

Since 2003, Denise Tremblay has managed the phage collection at the Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses at the Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. We interviewed Denise about how the center collects, stores and distr

This month, we hosted two episodes of PHAVES! Here's your recap of both, along with links to the recordings. Thanks very much to our special guests, Dr. Elyse Stachler and Piotr Tynecki! This month, we hosted two PHAVES events; here's your

This week, we interviewed Gavin Hands, CEO of Cellexus, about the company's history of helping phage researchers and biotech companies scale up their phage production. This week, we bring you a Q&A with Gavin Hands, CEO of Cellexus. This p

We kicked off PHAVES this Tuesday! We discussed Phage Directory's origin story and future directions, answered questions from the community, and hosted a series of small-group breakout sessions. Here's how it all went! ## Here's the link to