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A Nature Communications study (open access) describes Paride, a newly isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage that can replicate directly in, and lyse, deep-dormant host cells, whereas other phages tested suspended replication until the host

University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia) is hiring a faculty member in phage biology & therapy to develop research and teaching activities in close collaboration with an antibiotic resistance containment program. Please contact tanel.tenson@ut.

Phage Oxford 2024, the longest running phage conferences series in Europe, and the second longest running phage conference globally, will be held on 02-03 September 2024 as a ‘virtual/in-person’ hybrid event at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK.

Researchers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County describe two satellite-helper phage systems infecting Streptomyces species, which they call the first examples of bacteriophage satellite viruses. The Flayer satellite does not appe

Lund University researchers used contrast-matching small-angle neutron scattering to show that DNA packaged in the phage λ capsid undergoes a density and volume transition in the core as temperature rises from 20 °C to 40 °C, close to the p

Stanford researchers show that the temperate filamentous phage Pf4 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is decorated with outer membrane vesicles whose short RNAs trigger TLR3-dependent type I interferon production and suppress antibacterial cytokines

Monash University researchers applied highly purified phage T4 to mammalian cells in vitro and found it was rapidly internalized into macropinosomes without activating the TLR9 or cGAS-STING DNA-sensing pathways. T4 instead activated AKT-de

Researchers at Skoltech report the full genome sequence and virion protein content of Escherichia coli phage BF23, a close relative of T5 that was isolated in the mid-twentieth century. BF23 resists Types I/II/III restriction-modification s

University of Wroclaw is hiring an assistant to perform phage research and teaching.

Researchers led from the Ocean University of China characterised Halomonas phage vB_HmeY_H4907, isolated from surface sediment of the Mariana Trench at a depth of 8,900 m. The authors describe it as the deepest isolated siphovirus from the

University of Hertfordshire is hiring a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology to teach bacteriology, medical microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, identification of pathogens, phage biology and OneHealth.

Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK is hiring a Research Fellow in BioSciences to study phage biology and ecology to further develop approaches to characterise viral and bacterial communities.

Tulane University researchers used inducible CRISPR interference to manipulate 18 E. coli BL21 genes and identify effectors of phage T7 propagation, then modified the bacterial lysate used for cell-free bacteriophage synthesis accordingly.

Streptomyces lividans, a model filamentous Gram-positive bacterium with conserved contractile-injection-system gene clusters, makes phage tail-like particles (SLPs) that stay in the cytoplasm instead of being released. Without SLPs, aerial

University of Leicester is seeking a Lecturer in Phage Biology.

Nature Communications paper using cryo-electron microscopy of short Ff-derived nanorods to determine a structure of a filamentous virus (f1, fd or M13 phages) including the tips. Combined with mutagenesis, it identifies phage domains import

The 2023 Symposium on New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-host Interactions (October 2-4, 2023) will bring together researchers studying new concepts and mechanisms in phage biology, with topics including viral cell biology, anti-viral defens

University of Warwick and Cytiva authors show that poly(acrylic acid) prevents phage-induced killing of bacterial hosts and phage replication without affecting induction of recombinant protein expression, and was more active than poly(metha

The Oxford Phage Meeting (Sept 4th-5th) is happening this year.

A bioRxiv preprint reports that highly purified phage T4 was rapidly internalized in vitro by A549 lung epithelial cells, MDCK-I kidney cells and mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages without activating TLR9 or cGAS-STING inflammatory pathw