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The Atkinson lab at Lund University (Lund, Sweden) is hiring a doctoral student in computational biology of infection to study prophages in E. coli genomes and annotate their genes using high-throughput AlphaFold.

Vulcan Biologics (Claremont, California) is seeking a phage enthusiast to provide crucial leadership and oversight as interim CEO during a pivotal transitional period. The company's founder, Dr. Mike Koeris, has taken on the role of Office

The Luque Lab at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida) is hiring a postdoc in biology to predict the physical properties of uncultured viruses using computational biophysics and multi-scale modeling.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Maryland) is hiring a Research Assistant to support the Science Education Alliance program's research and training activities, focusing on the genetic diversity of the phage population.

Join us for the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference in beautiful Cairns, Australia to hear all about the latest advances in the field and reconnect with friends & colleagues. Early bird registration rates close on the 24th of May, so please

The Phage Bioinformatics Wish List Survey is live! (Thanks to the 31 respondents to date! The data is shaping up to be super informative!) This survey aims to better understand the needs and satisfaction levels of phage biologists regardi

Dr Ameneh Khatami (University of Sydney, Phage Australia) has been awarded $4.3 million to investigate the use of a locally produced two-phage combination that targets S. aureus to see if it provides an advantage in addition to antibiotics

Marie Attwood (University of Leicester) and colleagues published a new preprint on the development of antibacterial drug-plus-phage combination assays. They demonstrate that microbroth methodologies based on ISO 2776 and time-kill curves ca

Could phages play a role in microbial adaptation to spaceflight conditions? Iris Irby and Jared Broddrick (NASA Ames Research Center) have shown that bacterial strains from the International Space Station show significant differences in pha

Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new preprint on systematic genome-wide discovery of host factors governing phage infectivity. They describe 'PHAGEPACK', a novel assay combining CRISPR

Stephanie Lynch (University of Sydney) and colleagues published the results of a survey on clinical needs and attitudes towards phage therapy among the cystic fibrosis community. The study highlights a significant reliance on antibiotics am

Here's the third rendition of our new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to. Hi everyone! It's Phage Picks time! This is a new monthly format we're testing out. These are casual recom

Locus Biosciences (North Carolina, USA) is hiring a Development Scientist to join the team to develop biologics purification processes and formulations, serving as a subject matter expert and lead scientist in partner relationships, and le

The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester has a self-funded opening for a PhD student to investigate the ecological states of phage communities and their impact on host-associated microbiomes.

Join us for the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference in beautiful Cairns, Australia to hear all about the latest advances in the field and reconnect with friends & colleagues. Early bird registration rates close on the 24th of May, so please

The World Health Organization (WHO) is hosting a webinar on environmental use of phages on May 16. This is the third and final in the series exploring the broader use of phages from an AMR One Health perspective. Watch the first two in the

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

The Phage Bioinformatics Wish List Survey is live! (Thanks to the 31 respondents to date! The data is shaping up to be super informative!) This survey aims to better understand the needs and satisfaction levels of phage biologists regardi

From David Bikard via Twitter: Hello phage phriends. Do you have examples of anti-phage defense systems that were shown to tolerate lysogeny but target the phage when it enters its lytic cycle ? (beyond type III CRISPR)

Catherine Hernandez (University of California, Berkeley) provides evidence supporting the role of coevolution in maintaining diversity among phages, revealing that coevolved phages have more mutations and greater congruence across populatio