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In a new blog post, Alima Yahia (a student at The Knowledge Society starting at Columbia University this Fall) explores phages and why they're needed — including her own challenges with antibiotics. This is a fun, refreshing read; great wor

What are 'n of 1' clinical trials, how do they compare to compassionate use, and how might they be used for phages? This week Jessica shares musings about this topic, which has been swirling in her brain for a while now... Hello everyone! I

The University of Nottingham, UK is hiring a Research Associate/Fellow in Bacteriophage Biology to work on a BBSRC-funded collaborative project on the use of phage to control Salmonella infections in poultry.

ePhective (San Francisco) is a newly founded phage therapy company started by Joe Bondy-Denomy from UCSF and Zemer Gitai from Princeton. They are currently looking for: - Two Phage Scientists to lead projects in phage discovery, characteri

The University of Tübingen (Germany) is hiring a PhD student to investigate virus dynamics in soil and rhizosphere using metagenomics.

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

ICTV's Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is now open, inviting bioinformaticians to classify a set of viral sequences using a bioinformatics pipeline of their choice or design. Pipelines should be fully and easily reproducible and cod

The Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Centre Munich has an open PhD position in Systems Biology to explore the interplay between viral and microbial communities and their impact on human health using advanced computational techni

ICTV's Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is now open, inviting bioinformaticians to classify a set of viral sequences using a bioinformatics pipeline of their choice or design. Pipelines should be fully and easily reproducible and cod

Viruses of Microbes 2024 (Cairns, Australia) has just come to a close, and it looked to be an EPIC event! Check #vom2024 on Twitter for countless updates and recaps of people’s favourite talks! Also, the next VoM location has officially be

The iVoM webinar series season 3 concluded with great success, attracting over 600 registrations from 11 countries and featuring 23 speakers, including 18 early-career researchers, discussing the latest research and advancements in microbia

The ISVM has released its Viruses of Microbes-themed issue in microLife journal! Led by Prof. Martin Loessner and Prof. Alexander Harms, the issue highlights recent discoveries in bacterial immunity mechanisms and the importance of phages i

Armata Pharmaceuticals has completed enrollment of its Phase 2 Tailwind study, which will evaluate efficacy of inhaled AP-PA02 in non-CF bronchiectasis patients with chronic pulmonary P. aeruginosa infection. Data anticipated in the second

Proteon Pharmaceuticals, JAFRAL, and PTC Phage Technology Center have established a non-profit organization called PhageEU in Brussels. With newly elected members of EU Parliament and European Commission coming into office, PhageEU sees an

Jens Hör (Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany) and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered that bacteria conjugate ubiquitin-like proteins to interfere with phage assembly. Here’s

Mark Grevsen Martinet (Jena University Hospital/Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany) and colleagues have published a preprint on how temperate Pf-like phages induced in P. aeruginosa biofilms can modulate phage and antibiotic resistance,

Always great to find phage researchers in countries we haven’t had representation from before! Tasnime Abdou Ahmad (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) and colleagues isolated and characterized a novel E. phage, AUBRB02. They discuss po

A bacterial antiphage system made of a ubiquitin-like protein, E1 and E2 conjugating enzymes and a deubiquitinase attaches the ubiquitin-like protein to the phage central tail fibre during infection. Infected cells release tailless particle