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Michael Shamash (McGill University) and Corinne Maurice published a new pre-print on bioRxiv on the app they developed called OnePetri: accelerating common bacteriophage Petri dish assays with computer vision. Check out the behind the app a

Anders Nørgaard Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal showing subtypes of tail spike proteins predicts the host range of Ackermannviridae phages.

Jessica Sacher (University of Alberta) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing that reduced infection efficiency of phage NCTC 12673 on non-motile Campylobacter jejuni strains is related to oxidative stress. They uncovered a

Twitter call out from Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team: Would you like to be a part of the #WorldPhageWeek Celebration (coming up in late October 2021) as an organization or a genomic company? You can do this through the following: • Spo

Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Barr who was named a 2021 Victorian Tall Poppy Award winner! The Tall Poppy Award was created to recognise Australian intellectual and scientific excellence. Dr. Barr leads a 14-member research group at Monash

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics was awarded an additional $8 Million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for the continued development of phage therapies for the treatment of infectious diseases. The new funding brings the total DoD contr

Necrotizing enterocolitis is a currently unpreventable life-threatening GI disorder of preterm infants. Fecal microbiota transplantation is promising, but risks transfer of pathogenic microbes. Anders Brunse (University of Copenhagen, Denma

Elyse Stachler (Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing phage treatment before chemical disinfection can enhance removal of pla

Aisling Brady (University of Glasgow, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology showing that the arbitrium system controls prophage induction. This mechanism was explored in Bacillus subtilis.

Shiraz Shah (Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing hundreds of viral families in the healthy infant gut. These results were obtained from sequencing and analysing fecal viromes from

For our next PHAVES (Tues, Oct 5 at 9AM CEST) we have Bjorn Criel, a PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, who will be talking about PhaLP: a database of Phage Lytic Proteins. Register for this and all upcoming seminars here!

Question for the phage community via Twitter from Alexander Hynes, Assist. Prof. at McMaster University: "I've been seeing more phage characterization papers that "optimize MOI" for higher titres. Why? I don't see biological insight, and wh

Another feather in the cap for African phage researchers!! Dr. Jerrold Agbankpe was awarded the Iso Lomso Visiting Scholar Award to collaborate with researchers at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study to develop phages as future a

Twitter call-out by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD: "If you live in Cambodia & want to participate in a phage hunt to cure superbug infections common in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients, contact me, Dr. Saima Aslam or IPATH at IPATH@health.ucsd.edu.

Dear Phage aficionados, We are excited to announce the Inaugural Symposium on Bacteriophages and Bacteriophage-derived Technologies to be held on December 10th 2021 in Singapore, jointly organised by Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU)

For our next PHAVES (Tues, Oct 5 at 9AM CEST) we have Bjorn Criel, a PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, who will be talking about PhaLP: a database of Phage Lytic Proteins. Register for this and all upcoming seminars here!

Missed out on a PHAVES seminar? You can catch up on all the PHAVES at the Phage Directory Youtube. Newly added videos: - Aël Hardy's PHAVES talk on the inhibition of phage infection by antibiotics - Dr. Saima Aslam's PHAVES talk on clinica

Jolien Onsea (University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues have published a study protocol in Viruses on phage therapy for difficult-to-treat infections. This article aims to address the scientific hurdles of phage therapy by using

Eric Brown (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing that gut microbiome ADP-ribosyltransferases are widespread phage-encoded fitness factors. Previously thought to be restricted to pathogens,

Anshul Sinha (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues published a pre-print showing that the transplantation of phages from ulcerative colitis patients shifts the gut bacteriome and exacerbates severity of induced colitis.