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Angela Makumi (International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya) and colleagues published a paper in Antibiotics on the potential benefit and challenges of phage therapy for the livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Aa Haeruman Azam (Jichi Medical University, Japan) and colleagues published a review article in Antibiotics on current progress in phage engineering technology and its application in modern medicine.

Greetings, I hope everyone is doing well during these trying times. My name is Jonathan Lalsiamthara, a Post Doc trainee at the Aballay Lab, OHSU, Portland, OR. I am reaching out to the community if anyone will share with us the cystoviruse

The Centre of Microbiome Science (Ohio State University) is organizing a Viromics workshop webinar series (virtual) on October 13-15, 2021. The workshop will cover virus identification and classification tools, and virus databases. See the

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

African Phage Forum (APF) is hosting the sixth session of their webinar series on September 24 at 7 AM EAT/9 AM PDT. Guest speaker Dr. Ivan Liachko will be presenting his talk on "Culture-Free Assembly and Host-Attribution of Phage Genomes

Marion Bichet (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a protocol in Star Protocols for studying phage interactions with in vitro epithelial cell layers. They developed a simplified method for high-titer phage purification an

Graça Pinto (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a research article in FEMS Microbiology ecology on the interactions of phage ace and shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during biocontrol. This work demonstrated that

Andrzej Zielezinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and colleagues published a new preprint describing PHIST, a fast and accurate prediction of prokaryotic hosts from metagenomic viral sequences.

Ian Rambo (University of Texas Austin) and colleagues published a preprint on unique viruses that infect Archaea related to eukaryotes. Here they characterized seven viral genomes that infected Lokiarchaeota, Helarchaeota, and Thorarchaeota

Aisling Brady (University of Glasgow, UK) and colleagues published a review article in Annual Reviews of Microbiology on the molecular basis of lysis–lysogeny decisions in Gram-positive phages. They discuss a variety of mechanisms and the g

The next Phage Phun session will be Wednesday September 29 at 3PM Pacific (an Australian friendly time!). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the Director of the Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases service, will give talk entitled 'Clinical phage therapy: L

#Women_in_Bacteriophage will start recruiting social media coordinator volunteers. If you are interested, send an email to: womeninphage@gmail.com or talk to Fatma via Twitter.

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

African Phage Forum (APF) is hosting the sixth session of their webinar series on September 24 at 7 AM EAT/9 AM PDT. Guest speaker Dr. Ivan Liachko will be presenting his talk on "Culture-Free Assembly and Host-Attribution of Phage Genomes

Stephanie Lynch will host the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday September 29 at 3PM Pacific (an Australian friendly time!). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed u

Felix Biotechnology was awarded an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant for $256,000 to further enhance their machine learning-based approach for engineering phage as a novel treatment for drug-resistant bacterial inf

Pawel Markwitz (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in ISME on genome-driven elucidation of phage-host interplay and the impact of phage resistance evolution on bacterial fitness. They systematically assessed

Jennifer Mahony (University College Cork, Ireland) published a commentary in mSystems on the use of cell surface polysaccharides as a common strategy for phage adsorption. She discussed how identification of common host recognition and bind