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In this preprint, the authors use microfluidic culture and high resolution microscopy to study how the cellular scale architecture of model 2-species biofilms impacts cell-cell and cell-phage interactions controlling larger scale population

In a new preprint, researchers from the University of Minnesota report on their efforts to catalog human gut phages using metagenome assembly and long-read sequencing.

In this talk, hosted by the Baltimore Underground Science Space, Joelle Woolston (Intralytix, Inc.) provides a brief history of phages, an overview of their mechanisms of action, and a discussion of the many ways the power of phages is bein

My Hero & Me - Different flavors of phage-host prediction powered by machine learning: how and why?: Dimi Boeckaerts and Simon Roux discuss different approaches to building machine learning models for phage-host prediction in this webinar.

Connor Brown on Twitter: "have a set of de novo assembled viral genomes from metagenome and trying to figure out who they are and their potential hosts. very few have BLAST hits against ncbi. any suggestions? #Bioinformatics #metagenomics #

In this episode of the Phage Therapy Today podcast, host Steven Yang sits down with Dr. Steven Theriault from Cytophage Technologies Inc. to discuss how he is building and expanding businesses in both clinical and agricultural markets acros

In a new preprint, Medeea Popescu and colleagues report that the bacteriophage Pf4, produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dampens inflammatory responses in response to either P. aeruginosa airway infection in a mouse model of acute pneumonia

In a new paper in Current Opinion in Microbiology, Aisylu Shaidullina and Alexander Harms present an overview of recent breakthroughs in the systematic investigation of phage-host interactions. They highlight recent work on the molecular ba

This preprint by Séraphine Degroux et al. presents the electron cryo-microscopy structure of bacteriophage T5 RBPpb5 in complex with its E. coli receptor, the iron ferrichrome transporter FhuA.

In a new paper in Nature Microbiology, Benjamin Adler et al. show that the CRISPR-Cas13a protein from Leptotrichia buccalis has robust antiviral activity against a wide range of phages and can be applied as a generalizable tool for editing

Guy Mason and Enrique R. Rojas published a new preprint entitled Mechanical compression induces persistent bacterial growth during bacteriophage predation. The paper discusses how bacteria can grow persistently when perfused with high-titer

Dear ISVM Members, We are pleased to announce the results of our 2022 ISVM Executive Board election. Thank you to 292 of you who participated in the election of the new Board members. The New ISVM Board members for 2023-2024 are listed belo

Stephanie Lesage, Richard James and Francesca Hodges have spearheaded Phage-UK, which has >45 clinicians interested in phage therapy, who work in 15 different UK Hospital Trusts; with a Phage-UK Clinical Steering Group of 18 members. Their

Viruses Journal is now accepting nominations for their 2022 Early Career Investigator Award. The prize will be awarded to two early-career investigators demonstrating excellence in virology, and will include an invitation to speak at the Vi

Craig MacLean on Twitter: "Quick question: does anybody know of fluorescent dyes that can be used to stain phage? Want to measure ability of phage to adsorb to bacterial cells they cannot infect."

Micreos, a Dutch/Swiss biotech company, has secured its next funding round of €25 million in growth capital for clinical development of its endolysin technology platform, set to replace antibiotics in many areas.

Adi Millman et al. published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe entitled An expanded arsenal of immune systems that protect bacteria from phages. They report the discovery of 21 defense systems that protect bacteria from phages, based on co

In a new paper in mBio, Eugen Pfeifer and colleagues report that phage-plasmids commonly encode different and multiple types of resistance genes of high clinical importance, often in integrons.

In a new paper in Microbiology Spectrum, Aude Ferran (Université de Toulouse) and colleagues report that the combination of phages and antibiotics can prevent the selection of resistant bacteria.

Brendan J. O’Hara (Tufts University School of Medicine) and colleagues published a paper in PLOS Genetics entitled The Vibrio cholerae Seventh Pandemic Islands act in tandem to defend against a circulating phage.