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Can phages save Uganda’s banana crops? This week, Ritah Nakayinga, a lecturer and phage researcher at Kyambogo University, shares her work developing a phage cocktail to fight Banana Bacterial Wilt in Uganda's staple crop. The Phage quote,

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

Join us for World Phage Week Webinar 2024, hosted by the Ibadan Phage Research Team at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The event will take place TODAY/TOMORROW — Friday, October 25, to Saturday, October 26, 2024 (West Africa Standard Ti

Darren Smith (Northumbria University) and colleagues invite phage researchers to the Viruses of Microbes - UK conference, featuring keynote speakers, over 100 postgraduate presentations, and a pre-conference phage genomics workshop. 23rd -

Phage Hunters Training and Research Program has announced a fundraising campaign to support phage research training in Africa. The initiative aims to equip young scientists with bioinformatics skills for in-silico phage hunting to combat an

New phage book alert! Lina Zeldovich announced that her new book, "The Living Medicine," is out today, described by reviewers as “unputdownable” and compared to "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," making it a must-read for those interes

NIAID has announced a new $6M funding opportunity to establish Centers for Accelerating Phage Therapy to combat ESKAPE pathogens. This is the first major NIH phage therapy-specific center-level grant. By this time next year, 2-3 phage ther

Achaogen's 2019 bankruptcy led to the loss of plazomicin, a promising aminoglycoside. John Rex and Kevin Outterson have analyzed the financial failure of plazomicin and Achaogen, summarizing key findings from a post-mortem study. Their con

Mihály Koncz (HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary) and colleagues combined phylogeographic analysis with phage typing to guide precision phage therapy, showing that a few carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii strain types domina

Yunxue Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and colleagues discovered a reverse transcriptase-mediated mechanism of prophage genome reduction in P. aeruginosa biofilms, showing that Pf4 phage-encoded RT and an ncRNA collaborate to generate sup

Did you know the CDC and FDA have an Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Isolate Bank? Researchers can order microbial isolates for free, collected from CDC's surveillance and outbreak activities. These isolates are combined into panels for testi

Carus Animal Health, an animal health company in Stevenage, UK is hiring a Microbiology Laboratory Scientist to identify and characterize viruses, particularly phages, for pet health applications. The role involves working with microorganis

Evelien Adriaenssens (Quadram Institute Bioscience) announced a PhD position to study phages against Listeria in food production, focusing on phage discovery, characterization, and phage-host interactions using genomics and bioinformatics a

Ghent University is hiring for a professor in biologics manufacturing, seeking candidates with expertise in biopharmaceutical process technology to develop research and teach courses in biochemistry, biotechnology and bioprocess technology.

Pat Secor’s Laboratory (Montana State University) is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to study interactions between phages, bacteria, and the immune system in relation to Lyme disease, using tick-mouse models, microbial genetics, genomics,

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the seventh rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. Howdy phage phans! For most of you, summer’s been over for well over a month now. In

Why aren't phages routinely used in the world yet? It constantly feels that they're not living up to their potential, and I want to understand why. I’m super excited to share our new podcast, Podovirus. This is a new experiment. I wanted a

Xin Hou (Sun Yat-sen University, China) and colleagues published a new paper on using AI to expand the diversity of the global RNA virosphere, showing 161,979 putative RNA virus species and 180 RNA virus supergroups identified in diverse gl

Tetrapyrroles such as heme, chlorophyll, and vitamin B12 are essential for various metabolic pathways. Helen Wegner (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany) and colleagues demonstrated the presence of tetrapyrrole genes in phage seque

Stephano Iglesias (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia) and colleagues created a high-resolution structural atlas of Pseudomonas phage Pa193 using bioinformatics, proteomics, and cryogenic electron microscopy single particle analysis.