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BSVoM Symposium, Belgium is hosting a phage research symposum on September 8, 2023 in Liège (Belgium). Topics will cover: fundamental research in phage ecology, fundamental research in phage biology, and present and future applications of p

ISVM General Assembly Meeting is taking place during the Viruses of Microbes conference in Tbilisi, Georgia from 17h30-18h30 on Tuesday, July 4th. This is a great opportunity to get to know the Executive Board, make suggestions and hear wha

The Sullivan lab is hosting the 2023 Viromics Workshop October 11-13, 2023, in-person at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. You can expect deep dives on virus identification, virus taxonomy/classification, databases, ecogenomics pip

The journal 'PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research' has achieved its first impact factor of 2.7. The journal offers immediate deposit to PubMed, a zero-embargo Green Open Access policy, and free 30-day access to share your research wit

PhageLab's CTO, Pablo Cifuentes Palma, was interviewed by the BBC's Jane Chambers on "The Coolest Science in the World" segment of the Unexpected Elements podcast about PhageLab's work with phages (starts at the 29:55 minute mark).

Tom Ireland's new book The Good Virus explores the potential of phages as the future of medicine, including their ability to target tumours with cancer drugs and fight antibiotic-resistant infections.

Mariam Taha (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) and colleagues have published a study on the efficacy of lytic phages combined with vancomycin against S. aureus biofilm-like aggregates in synovial fluid, offering a promising strategy again

Anisha Thanki (University of Leicester, UK) and colleagues have shown that a phage cocktail delivered in chicken feed significantly reduced Salmonella colonization in experimentally-challenged broiler chickens.

Ming Hu (Qingdao University, China) and colleagues have isolated and characterized two novel, highly pH- and temperature-stable jumbo phages and found they have strong potential to eliminate Klebsiella pneumoniae in sewage water.

David Helekal (University of Warwick, UK) and colleagues have published a new model to estimate AMR fitness cost and benefit. They found that two unrelated Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages resistant to fluoroquinolones shared similar epidemic

Naomi Haddock (Stanford University, USA) and colleagues have developed a pipeline to identify phages and their bacterial hosts in cell-free DNA from plasma samples, enabling identification of bacterial pathogens associated with sepsis.

Nature Communications case report of a 41-year-old man with Kartagener syndrome and a life-threatening chronic multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection who was treated successfully with iterative aerosolized phage treatment

The Evergreen International Phage Meeting is happening Aug 6-11, 2023, live in Olympia, Washington, USA! This is an in-person meeting, better known as Phage Camp! Come present your phage work, climb mountains with other phage scientists, pl

The 4th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance, organized jointly by the CAS in Botany, University of Madras, and Water and Steam Chemistry Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Facilities, will

Phage Germany is an initiative that aims to promote awareness and adoption of phage therapy, emphasizing the need to educate doctors and pharmacists to improve patient outcomes and combat AMR.

UCSD PREPARE is hosting a phage seminar ‘From Bog to Bedside' with Steffanie Strathdee on June 29, 2023 at 1:30 pm PT.

TechLink Health has released two phage podcasts on defeating superbugs and the role of phage therapy: one with Steffanie Strathdee, Co-Director of IPATH, and one with Rob McBride, CEO of Felix Biotechnology.

University of Toronto has received a $5 million dollar gift to start a phage therapy center in Canada, to be led by infectious disease microbiologist Greg German MD, PhD. It will include creation of a professorship in phage therapy research

A new paper published in Microbiology Spectrum by Magdalena Unterer (Helmholtz Centre Munich) describes a high-throughput method for identifying and characterizing phages for phage therapy, revealing cell-to-cell variations in phage kinetic

Elliot Macdonald and colleagues at Newcastle University have identified a new anti-phage system called Shield, found in Pseudomonas, made of a core component ShdA and a membrane-bound protein with an RmuC domain, which provides a new mechan