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Last chance to get your phage bioinformatics manuscript into PHAGE Journal's special phage AI and informatics issue! If you're working on AI in phage biology or therapy, or tools for host discovery, prediction, etc, submit your manuscript b

Jessica Sacher will chair the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday Oct 27 at 9AM Pacific. Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past Pha

Want to build leadership experience in a fun and low-key setting? If you'd like to chair a future Phage Phun (or PHAVES) event, email phagephun@phage.directory! We'll equip you with everything you need to know, and take care of all the tech

Intralytix, Inc. announced that its food safety product, CampyShield™, has received GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) recognition from the FDA. CampyShield™ contains naturally occurring lytic phages that selectively and specifically kill

The European Food Safety Authority panel published a new paper in EFSA Journal delivering a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting on a set of phages infecting Salmonella gallinarum (Bafasal®) for all av

Austen Terwilliger (TAILOR Labs, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas) and colleagues have published a new paper in Viruses on phage therapy related microbial succession associated with successful clinical outcome for a recurrent urinary tract

Erin Attrill (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS Biology showing individual bacteria in structured environments rely on phenotypic resistance to phage.

Anne Chevallereau (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a review in Nature Reviews Microbiology showing interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments.

Today on the Clubhouse Phage Phridays at 2PM Eastern, Jessica and Jan from Phage Directory will continue last week's discussion on the State of Phage Survey results; come ask all your questions about what we found about who's collecting whi

Twitter call-out from Barbara Brenner; phages-to-patients: We are looking for experts to draft (inter-)national guidelines on phage therapy for medical doctors and clinics treating all aspects from "who can get it" over "how is it to be app

Jessica Sacher will chair the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday Oct 27 at 9AM Pacific. Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past Pha

To celebrate Phage Week (22-28 October), Phage Directory is holding a Twitter #scicomm challenge! To participate, all you need to do is create Twitter posts that align with the daily prompts (e.g. tag your favourite phage people, tag your f

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

Twitter call-out from Michael Laub; Question for phage tweeps: does EOP stand for 'efficiency of plating' or 'efficiency of plaquing'? I've seen both in the literature. Am hoping this one doesn't stoke emotions comparable to the argument ab

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

For PHAVES #23 next week (Oct 12 at 9AM CEST), Bjorn Criel, PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, the Laboratory of Applied Biotechnology, at Ghent University, will give a talk on PhaLP: A Database for the Study of Phage Lytic Proteins and The

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

Head on over to Twitter to follow Dr. Ellie Jameson for #InkTober2021 where Ellie uploads a new phage drawing, cartoon or animation everyday!

Clay Crippen (University of Georgia) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on RNA and Sugars as unique properties of phages infecting multidrug resistant Acinetobacter radioresistens.

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity. Check out this awesome Twitter thread by Jay Hinton about the discover