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Dr. Siân Owen was interviewed the You Make Me Sick podcast about her work using experimental evolution and computational approaches to study AMR bacteria and phages during her postdoc at the Baym Lab at Harvard Medical School. She announced

Katrine Whiteson (University of California, Irvine) has been awarded a Pilot Program grant for phage therapy research by the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute to develop and refine phage therapy protocols for treating antibiotic-re

Yuval Mulla (University of Cologne) and colleagues quantified phage amplification rates using a mathematical model called PHORCE, showing that amplification rates of E. coli phages vary widely and that phage-antibiotic interactions depend p

Stephen Tang (Columbia University) and colleagues described de novo gene synthesis by an antiviral reverse transcriptase, showing a novel approach to gene synthesis.

Adrián Cortés-Martín (University College Cork) and colleagues published a new paper on isolation and characterization of Septuagintavirus, showing a novel clade of Escherichia coli phages within the subfamily Vequintavirinae.

Célia Souque (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper reviewing evolutionary mechanisms driving antibiotic resistance at different scales.

In episode 2 of the Podovirus podcast, 'Getting Phage Research Funded', Jessica Sacher interviews Dr. Joe Campbell, who spent the past decade+ as a program officer at NIAID, the US gov's main infectious disease funding body. Dr. Campbell r

This review describes the computational tools used by SEA-PHAGES and PHIRE to analyze phage genomes, extract prophages, group related genes into phamilies, and visualize genome mosaicism. The tools are freely available to the phage communit

“We created a MASH database for rapid searching of closely related phages, to then be compared with BLASTn to compute intergenomic similarity between bacteriophages.” The authors report that taxmyPHAGE is available as a conda repository and

How do we get our phage grants funded? We start by getting to know our program officers! Joe Campbell has played a key role in shaping phage research funding for the last decade during his time at NIAID, and this week shares how he sees the

The FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research is hiring a Postbac Fellow to develop reagents for characterizing live biotherapeutic products in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan at SRM University (Andhra Pradesh, India) is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow to study molecular biology of phage-bacteria interaction.

Attention phage scientists seeking their next awesome role! Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France) is recruiting for several positions! At Eligo, we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs,

Dr. Katharina Höfer (Philipps University Marburg) has been awarded a LOEWE top professorship — 2.8 million euros over a period of five years to support her research into the role of RNA modifications in biology and new mechanisms of gene re

Ellie Jameson (Bangor University), environmental virologist and scientific illustrator, has published her phage art collection (drawings, cartoons, etc!) on her new website. Check out her work (& reach out to commission her to illustrate yo

The Phage Hunters Training and Research Program in Nairobi has been hosting a ‘Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Phage Therapy series’ on LinkedIn Live — recordings are available! Recently they had a panel on AMR and phage therapy, and ano

Ashlan Kunz Coyne (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) and colleagues published a new paper on evaluating phage-antibiotic combinations against ESKAPE pathogens, showing synergistic and antagonistic interactions.

Cody Martin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new preprint on Protein Set Transformer: A protein-based genome language model to power high diversity viromics.

Geeta Ram (NYU Grossman School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper on incorporating the gene encoding lysostaphin into their ‘Antibacterial Drone System’, showing expanded killing field and effective treatment of mixed bacteri

Ana Catarina Duarte (Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias, Spain) and colleagues examined the synergistic removal of S. aureus biofilms using phage Kayvirus rodi and exopolysaccharide depolymerase Dpo7, showing a significant decrease