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Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, AP-HP and Université Paris Cité trained an AI model that recommends a phage cocktail for a bacterial strain from its genome alone, using 350,000 interactions between 403 E. coli strains and 96 p

Metabolites released from intact, phage-infected Synechococcus strongly attracted the marine bacteria Vibrio alginolyticus and Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis, especially in early infection, while uninfected cyanobacteria did not. 5'-deoxyad

Phages.fr is hosting the 9th French Phage Network Meeting, taking place next week in Sète, France. This annual conference aims to bring together French phage researchers to share recent findings, discuss collaborations, and advance the fiel

Using a dataset of interactions between 403 Escherichia strains and 96 phages, researchers predicted strain-level phage-bacteria outcomes from genomic data alone (AUROC 86%) and found that adsorption factors explain most interactions while

Querying 34 toothbrush and 92 showerhead metagenomes, researchers identified 22 complete, 232 high-quality and 362 medium-quality viral OTUs, with viral richness correlating with bacterial richness. Low sequence similarity to references and

The 14th annual Oxford Phage Conference will be held September 2-3, 2024 in Oxford, UK as a hybrid event. Confirmed speakers include Professor Martha Clokie (UK) | Professor Aidan Coffey (Ireland) | Dr Mariam Dadiani (Georgia) | Professor

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

The helix-turn-helix regulator Aca2 represses phage anti-CRISPR synthesis transcriptionally by binding DNA and also inhibits translation of the mRNAs by binding conserved RNA stem-loops and blocking ribosome access; a cryo-EM structure of t

The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg, Germany is hiring for multiple positions to study RNA phage defense mechanisms and molecular biology.

The University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK is hiring a Senior Research Assistant / Research Fellow to take responsibility for a phage research stream, contribute to other research activities, and help with student projects.

New phage conference alert — this time in South America!! Phage researchers at the Universidad de los Andes invite the international phage community to Phage Option Congress 2024 (Dec 4-6, 2024 in Cartagena, Colombia). This will be the 3r

Fluorescence in situ hybridization showed that up to 19% of SAR11 (Pelagibacterales) cells were phage-infected during a phytoplankton bloom, coinciding with a roughly 90% drop in SAR11 abundance within 5 days. A fraction of infected cells h

Wilfried Moreira is serving as Guest Editor for a new Special Issue on "Bacteriophage Biology and Phage-Derived Technologies" in the open access journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences, with a submission deadline of August 31, 2

Maik Wolfram-Schauerte (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology) and colleagues published a preprint revealing that T4 phage RNA is NAD-capped, and alters the NAD-cap epitranscriptome of E. coli during infection through a phage-en

A human oral Saccharibacteria isolate (TM7x) protected its host Schaalia odontolytica XH001 from lytic phage LC001 during surface-associated growth, with down-regulation of a cell-wall polysaccharide gene cluster that affects phage binding.

Hi, everyone in phage community, my name is Dr. Prince, I belong to India, and I completed my doctorate in phage characterization and its application. I am looking for a postdoc position in phage biology. Please help me for the postdoc posi

The Anany lab at the University of Guelph, Ontario (@GuelPHage_lab on Twitter) has a couple of open positions (both PhD and postdoc) to study Salmonella and S. suis phage biology, host interaction, and applications.

Integrated resonant photonic crystal cavities in silicon acted as optical nanotweezers that differentiated a single bacterium from a single phage without labeling or surface bioreceptors, and distinguished phages across phenotypically disti

Researchers at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences cultured a novel deep-sea cold-seep Planctomycetes strain, ZRK32, which they propose to name Poriferisphaera heterotrophicis. Supplementing nitrate or ammonium induced

A Nature Microbiology study from the Universities of Würzburg and Tübingen shows that in Vibrio cholerae the CBASS anti-phage signalling system increases sensitivity to antifolate antibiotics up to tenfold and enables bacterial lysis by the