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The Food Science and Health Nutrition department at Iowa State University in Ames, IA, is looking for a postdoc to work on an NIH-funded project on phage engineering for therapeutic uses.

The Silveira Lab at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, is seeking a postdoc to investigate how phages affect geochemical biomarker production by sulfur bacteria in a NASA-funded project.

The University of Minnesota seeks an Assistant or Associate Professor in Bacteriology in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The role involves teaching and advancing research in AMR and drug discovery.

The Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy) is hiring a researcher for a project involving producing, purifying and characterizing phage endoglycosidases.

The Aravin lab at Caltech seeks a lab technician to study prokaryotic Argonaute proteins, including conducting genome knockouts and phage infection assays.

The newly established Integrative Viromics Lab at the University of Calgary, led by Dr. Ann Gregory, is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc and a lab technician/manager. The postdoc will work on viral ecology and evolution, while the lab techni

The Resch lab at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) seeks a Researcher (80%) for its phage therapy laboratory. The role, part of the NCCR Microbiomes project, involves experiments, report writing, supervision, and lab management.

The Deng lab at Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany is looking for a PhD student in Bioinformatics to study virome and microbiome interactions using single-cell technologies, multi-omics methods, and machine learning for developing phage-b

George Church’s lab at Harvard is seeking a full-time Research Assistant II to contribute to a project engineering a radically modified bacterial genome resistant to viruses, unable to escape biocontainment, and able to produce proteins wit

The US FDA offers a research opportunity in phage therapy, focusing on evaluating S. aureus phage treatment using animal models and studying phage genetics relevant to treatment contexts.

The Nobrega lab at the University of Southampton has launched phagecollection.org, the home of their new initiative to unite citizen scientists searching for phages to combat bacterial infections. They aim to educate the public about AMR an

Phage researchers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland recently gathered at the 2nd BSVoM hands-on workshop on personalized phage therapy, organized by Jean-Paul Pirnay, Maya Merabishvili, and Tea Glonti and held at the Queen

Yves Briers will head up Obulytix, a new company based on the phage lysin-based platform leveraging AI to tackle bacterial infections he co-developed at Ghent University and KU Leuven. Obulytix has already attracted $4 M Euro investment fro

Eligo Bioscience has raised $30 million to advance and test their CRISPR-based medicine for acne vulgaris and develop their platform for other diseases. Congrats Eligo!

Phages in space!! Phil Huss (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues discovered that phage-host interactions in microgravity onboard the International Space Station have unique dynamics. They saw significant differences in mutationa

Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes (University of California San Diego) and colleagues discovered that jumbo phages are effective against extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in contaminated preservative-free eyedrops.

Abdulkerim Karaynir (Recombinant DNA and Recombinant Protein Center, Turkey) and colleagues have demonstrated the successful transformation of environmental DNA into an active phage in E. coli.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley developed a CRISPR interference method to map gene essentiality in phages and applied it to the coliphages λ and P1, largely recapitulating the known essential genes of λ and giving new

Researchers at KIST Europe genetically modified filamentous fd phages to display shortened versions of a Cu(II)-specific peptide (HGFANVA). ICP-MS analyses showed improved Cu(II) binding by the engineered phages compared with wild-type fd,

Phage production has its quirks, but it’s not the only field trying to reliably manufacture a new biological entity. This week Jessica shares learnings from Australia’s annual bioprocessing conference about challenges other fields are facin