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Dr Mojgan Rabjey (Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom) is hiring a Phage Researcher to develop effective phage cocktails for precise crop protection measures.

Dr Tobias Bergmiller (Exeter University, UK) is hiring a Phage Researcher to harness the power of synthetic biology to engineer novel lytic phages.

Claudia Igler (University of Manchester) is hiring a postdoc to combine microbiology and biophysics to advance mechanistic understanding of the functional diversity in phage lysis systems and the impact of changes in bacterial cell state an

The Hendrickson laboratory at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) is excited to offer a PhD scholarship opportunity (supervised by Heather Hendrickson and co-supervised by Craig Billington) in Bacteriophage discovery to

Karen Maxwell (University of Toronto) has been awarded the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship for her research into antiviral defenses, which uncovered novel CRISPR inhibitors (anti-CRISPRs), according to a recent announcement by NSERC (Canada).

This week, Libby Duignan tells us about her visit from the UK to Phage Australia, and how she'll be applying what she learned about phage manufacturing in her new role devising phage manufacturing systems in the UK. I reached out to Dr Jess

Lotta-Riina Sundberg (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) is hiring a PhD student to study the role of ecology in molecular mechanisms of phage-host interactions.

Michael Brockhurst (University of Manchester, UK) is hiring a PhD student to engineer synthetic phages to optimize bacterial killing in phage therapy.

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a PhD student to characterize Mycobacteria toxin-antitoxin systems as phage defense and antimicrobial agents.

Antonia Sagona (University of Warwick, UK) is seeking a PhD student to study phage isolation and characterization for clinical applications.

Andrea Fossati just announced that their grant for investigating phage-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactions was funded by Vetenskapsradet (the Swedish Research Council).

Tagide deCarvalho and colleagues at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County have imaged a satellite phage attaching to another phage. Check out their paper, where they’ve described two novel satellite-helper phage systems, Mulch and Fl

The newest issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases features a special collection of articles exploring various aspects of phage therapy, including standardization of phage susceptibility testing, phage annotation and nomenclature, advanced ma

UK-based phage biotech company Fixed Phage has changed its name to NexaBiome Limited, to reflect its new focus as an end-to-end phage company in the human and animal health sectors.

Marion Bichet (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues found that phage T4 can enhance growth and survival of mammalian cells, shedding light on the potential symbiotic interactions between phages and their hosts.

In an analysis published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, Guilhem Faure (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH) and colleagues delve into the intricate relationship between CRISPR–Cas systems and mobile genetic elements.

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

The 2023 PhageScope paper describes a database with 873,718 phage sequences and annotations for genome completeness, hosts, lifestyle, taxonomy and genetic elements, plus automated analyses and visualizations. Oxford Academic

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

This month, we heard about the Southeast Asia phage workshop, a few tidbits from Evergreen, and a brief intro on using ChatGPT for lab work! Hey everyone, I’m writing this from the Melbourne Docklands library, as Jessica is presenting her