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Attention student and postdoctoral phage biologists planning to attend Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this year! Phage Directory will be sponsoring two cash awards in collaboration with the Viruses of Microbes organizing committee, an

In the spirit of social distancing and working from home, this week we're exploring some ideas and tools that enable online communities and allow teams to collaborate from around the world and to work from home. As more labs and offices are

Need phages for your research? This week, we bring you a guide on how to use Phage Directory to find the phages you need. We started our Phage Alerts system in response to a patient's imminent need for phages, and we still use it for these

Last Fall, we attended the Phage Futures Europe conference, which covered phage commercialization with a focus on how European regulators are thinking about phage therapy. This week, we present our full recap of that event, just in time to

Happy New Year, phage enthusiasts! This week, we share how we plan to help the phage research community systematize and standardize phage data collection in 2020. We spent the last year visiting phage labs and companies, and talking to phag

This week, Aël Hardy, an MD-PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, explores physicians’ awareness about phages and how it could be improved. He interviewed two French physicians who recently used phages to treat some of their m

This week, Dr. Urmi Bajpai, a phage researcher in New Delhi, India and co-creator of the International Bacteriophage Research Consortium, tells us about a public phage therapy lecture her Consortium held last month to raise awareness of pha

This week, Dr. Atunga Nyachieo and Ivy Mutai of the Institute of Primate Research in Nairobi, Kenya tell us about how phage research training began at their institute in 2017, how it continues to grow, and the impact it's had so far. The es

This week, Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi, a Lecturer at Plateau State University in Bokkos, Nigeria, shares some of the challenges his phage research lab faces due to their resource-limited setting. Phage research is gaining traction globally. Th

Hello phage people! It’s been about a month since Evergreen, and we’re ready with our wrap-up post. We’ve covered highlights, themes, and what really excited us about the conference! ## Who, what, where, when? The meeting took place Aug 4-9

This week, Colin Buttimer and colleagues from APC Microbiome in Ireland and the University of Galati in Romania share their inspiring experience organizing and teaching Romania's first phage summer school. Because of their success, a food s

This week, Paulina Deptula, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, shares her experience using Twitter to find both phages for her research and a supportive community ready to help. ## Non-emergency phage requests are im

NCTC, a culture collection that supplies bacterial strains around the world, is re-launching its phage collection. How did this come about, and what does this mean for the phage community? We interviewed a group of NCTC microbiologists to f

This week is a special, exciting week for Phage Directory! We’ve got big news pertaining to funding, new directions, and a website makeover! And to balance out all the NEW, our feature article this week focuses on something that’s staying t

This week, Siân Owen, a postdoctoral fellow studying prophage biology at Harvard University, gives us the scoop on the phage side of this year’s ASM Microbe conference. ASM Microbe 2019 was held at the Moscone Conference Centre in downtown

This week, Dan Evans, a research technician in the Van Tyne lab at the University of Pittsburgh, takes us through the regulatory challenges keeping phage therapy out of the mainstream, highlights ways to overcome these hurdles, and suggests

This week, we’re showcasing a story we received from Karen Adler, an MSc student in Dr. Ronen Hazan's lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She tells us about the phage work their lab is doing with high school students, some of the res

What love, community, and phages can do: this week, we bring you a review of Steffanie Strathdee and Tom Patterson's phage therapy memoir, The Perfect Predator. This week, I've reviewed a book: The Perfect Predator—A Scientist's Race to Sav

The first case of phage therapy in Israel shows how patients can benefit from collaborations between academia, medicine, military and biotech. This week, we're going over a recently-published phage therapy case report. ## What was the pati

We attended Phage Futures 2019 at the end of January, and now present our full recap of the event. The first annual Phage Futures Congress, hosted by Kisaco Research, was held in Washington, DC from January 29-30, 2019. The event brought in