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Thilo Köhler and Christian van Delden at University of Geneva and Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève offer a PhD position funded by NCCR AntiResist on clinical phage therapy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its microbiological basis.

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.

University of Gdansk and the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland is seeking a PhD student to study the role of prophages in the environmental adaptation and virulence of pectinolytic bacteria.

University of Pittsburgh, USA is hiring a Research Specialist to perform experiments aimed at understanding phages and their infection of Mycobacterium hosts.

Durham University, UK is hiring a postdoc to study the biochemistry of phage defence with a focus on Bacteriophage Exclusion (BREX) defence mechanisms.

We are urgently seeking Campylobacter phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving the patient's strain and testing your phages - By helping spre

We are urgently seeking Campylobacter phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving the patient's strain and testing your phages - By helping spre

This week, we learn from David and Lorenzo from BioNTech (formerly PhagoMed) about their experience with phage inhibition of S. aureus phages by plasma and synovial fluid. Read our papers for more details: Saez et al., 2021; Mutti et al 202

MBIE Endeavour Research Programme (Christchurch, New Zealand) is hiring a Programme Manager to coordinate research projects for the Phage-Based Biocontrol Programme, which involves establishing a pipeline for phage-based biocontrol discover

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia multivorans and Pandoraea species phages for a patient. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving the patient's strain and testing your ph

Ann Gregory, PhD via Twitter: Does anyone have any advice for where to purchase start-up equipment with a tight budget? (1) Class II Biosafety Cabinet, (2) Benchtop Microcentrifuge, (3) Anaerobic Chamber, (4) Autoclavable Micropipettes sets

This week Phagecast podcast published a new episode featuring an interview with Jean-Paul Pirnay! Dive into the world of phage therapy in Belgium – how it started, current practices, and future perspectives. This episode is the first of a t

Han Altae-Tran (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and colleagues discovered over 200 new CRISPR-associated systems, including Cas14, an enzyme that cuts RNA precisely.

In a new review Alicia Fajardo-Lubian and Carola Venturini (Westmead Institute for Medical Research) explore phage potential to target intracellular pathogens. They summarize molecular evidence of phage internalization, proof of phage activ

Koen Wortelboer (University of Amsterdam) and colleagues conducted a controlled clinical trial to assess efficacy and safety of sterile fecal filtrate transplantation (FFT) in individuals with metabolic syndrome. Glucose metabolism was simi

Shinwon Lee (Pusan National University Hospital, Korea) and colleagues conducted a survey revealing that Korean infectious disease specialists are receptive to phage therapy.

L'Oréal has acquired Danish probiotic and microbiome research company Lactobio.

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia multivorans and Pandoraea species phages for a patient. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving the patient's strain and testing your ph

University of Arizona researchers, with a co-author from Reckitt (Lysol and Dettol), flushed household and public toilets seeded with bacteriophage MS2, a surrogate for human enteric viruses. Contamination of restroom surfaces did not depen

This week, we introduce a new mini-series about building experiments on REDCap, a tool used for collecting clinical patient data. In the first issue, we dive deep into building instruments with nested permutations. I’ve long been fascinated