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The Le Roux lab in Montréal, Canada is hiring a phage postdoc to unravel the fundamental principles of phage-bacteria coevolution in natural populations, focusing on marine bacteria within the Vibrionaceae family.

The AIM Doctoral Training program (Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham) has a range of openings for PhD students open for application.

University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA, is hiring an Associate/ Full Professor of Virology in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry (Tenure-Track) to specialize in the study of phage-related host-virus interactions, viral pathogenesis, an

Justin Meyer (UC San Diego) is hiring 2 postdocs to work on subjects at the intersection of basic research on phage-bacterial coevolution and phage therapy.

Phages for Global Health's president, Dr. Tobi Nagel, has been selected as 1 of 22 Fulbright Global Scholars in this year's cohort! Funded by the US Congress, Tobi’s project will help establish phage regulatory systems in Africa and Asia b

UC San Diego's Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) is launching the Phage Therapy Clinical Support Fund to increase accessibility to phage therapy for patients worldwide who require compassionate use of phages.

On a new episode of the Accelerating Success podcast, Dr. Steven Theriault discusses how regulatory hurdles in Canada hinder access to innovative animal health products, leading Cytophage Technologies to decide against bringing their produc

Phage.ai has developed a Python package! PhageAI is an AI-driven software platform for prediction of phage lifecycle and taxonomy, providing valuable insights into phage characteristics and protein structural classes classification. Try it

If you are using iPHoP for phage host prediction: a new update has just been released (1.3.3), alongside an updated host database now based on GTDB r214. Updated code and database available via conda / Docker. Report any issues here.

BiomX announced positive results from their Phase 1b/2a trial evaluating BX004, a P. aeruginosa phage cocktail, in cystic fibrosis patients. They saw clinical improvement in pulmonary function and reduced bacterial burden, paving the way fo

Tired of doing plaque assays? Check out the Bollyky lab’s new method to count phages and assess their bioactivity using a DLS Particle Size Analyzer, now published in PNAS. Great tweet thread here!

A recent multi-specialty survey in the United Kingdom revealed substantial demand and willingness among clinicians to use phage therapy in appropriate cases.

Baptiste Gaborieau (Université Paris Cité, France) and colleagues published a new preprint on predicting diverse phage bacteria-interactions at the strain level from their genomes only. They created a matrix of >38k phage-bacteria interacti

In a new article for The Microbiologist magazine, Jessica Sacher reflects on her experience helping set up systems (like Phage Directory and Phage Australia) to make phage therapy more accessible. She comments on shifting phage therapy perc

We are urgently seeking Klebsiella aerogenes 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 phages - By helping spread t

We are urgently seeking Klebsiella aerogenes 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 phages - By helping spread t

We are urgently seeking Klebsiella aerogenes 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 phages - By helping spread t

Round up time! This month Jan released Open Phage Data Sheet (google sheet full of phage tools/links/resources, open to all to contribute!) and shared a walkthrough on using ChatGPT for data work. And Libby Duignan wrote about her recent Au

Tim Blower (Durham University) and Jay Hinton (University of Liverpool) have an opening for a PhD student funded by BBSRC NLD Doctoral Training Partnership to study cyclic nucleotide signalling and BREX phage defence.

The Le Roux lab at the Université de Montréal is hiring a postdoc in Microbial Genomics to investigate Vibrio phage-bacteria coevolution and phage satellites.