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PharaCon applies conditional BERT to phage identification, incorporating labels during pre-training and fine-tuning. The authors evaluated the framework on simulated sequences and real metagenomic contigs. bioRxiv

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the fourth rendition of our new format (and Jan's favourite..!) where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. (Yes, Jan now reads more phage papers than Jessica, and she's

The FDA’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education is hiring a Postbac Fellow to develop and characterize phage therapy for decolonizing Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci.

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.

Avail Bio (San Francisco) is hiring a Research Associate, Phage Display to support target discovery efforts.

Xaira Therapeutics (Seattle, USA) is hiring a Scientist, Phage High-Throughput Screening with prior experience in library building, cloning, DNA manipulation, and phage display screening/sorting with antibody or protein libraries for therap

Jan Gogarten from the Helmholtz Institute for One Health is seeking a postdoc to study gut phageomes of primates, including exploring a sample set of over 120,000 wild primate samples across Sub Saharan Africa.

Locus Biosciences (Morrisville, North Carolina) is hiring a Development Scientist to be responsible for developing biologics purification processes and formulations, serving as a subject matter expert and lead scientist in partner relations

If you are or know a freshly graduated PhD looking for a postdoc, and interested in RNA phage discovery or wastewater phages, come (or send them) my way! We have a few collaborative projects with positions available right now! — Simon Roux,

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

Registration is now open for the 2024 International Soil Virus Conference! Soil virologists and enthusiasts will gather to explore the multifaceted roles of soil viruses within a One Health framework, with a special focus on meta-omics cha

Lina Zeldovich, an author who grew up in a family of Soviet scientists, published a new book, ‘The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail’. She explores the history and potenti

HYpharm GmbH and the German Center for Infection Research announced that their phage lysin HY-133 has entered phase I clinical trials. HY-133 aims to prevent nasal colonization by MRSA. The trial is conducted at the University Hospital of T

Deepto Mozumdar (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues have characterized a new lipid-based jumbo phage compartment — a hub for early phage infection. The study explores how phage ΦKZ assembles a vesicle to protect its gen

Khalimat Murtazalieva (European Bioinformatics Institute) and colleagues have discovered 145 phage anti-defence systems (ADSs) that counteract 27 of the 152 known bacterial defence families. They discuss high-throughput approaches which are

Beatriz Beamud (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues have discovered that many bacterial defense systems against phages are encoded by mobile genetic elements, challenging traditional views of bacterial immunity.

In a new preprint, Ritam Das and Janina Rahlff (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) describe a positive correlation between the number of structural genes and above-average guanine-cytosine (GC) content in phage genomes.

This week we're featuring Michael Shamash's reflections on a couple of noteworthy topics covered at this year's Hanson Wade phage summit. Michael is a McGill University PhD student by day / awesome Phage Directory volunteer by night — thank

Franklin Nobrega (University of Southampton, UK) is hiring a PhD student to work on phage therapy for TB.

McGill University (Montreal, Canada) is hiring a teaching assistant to assist with the Fall 2024 SEA-PHAGES: Phage Discovery course.