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Xin You (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany) and colleagues published a preprint on phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria. They report the ability of hyphal-riding bacteria to transport lytic phages and utilize th

Olivia Williams Barber (Northwestern University, USA) and colleagues published a minireview in mSystems on how the future of phage therapy will promote antimicrobial susceptibility. They examined bacterial resistance mechanisms, the current

As part of the 'Meet-a-Scientist' series, the Science Journal for Kids and Teens interviewed Tiffany Luong, PhD student and a phage scientist at San Diego State University. Check out the interview here to find out more about 'Can virsues sa

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

For PHAVES #21, Aël Hardy, PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, will give a talk entitled 'Molecular multitasking: inhibition of phage infection by aminoglycoside antibiotics' on September 7 at 6PM CEST! Register here! (If you'

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

Did you miss our special Wednesday edition of Phage Phriday AKA Phage Phwednesdays? No worries! It is now available on YouTube. Check out what's going on Down Under! Here Adriana Carolina Hernandez interviews Dr. Jon Iredell and other Phage

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) has signed a licensing agreement with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research to gain access to its phage database. The deal is synergistic with APT's ongoing partnership with the US Navy.

Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new review in Annual Review of Medicine on phage therapy for antibiotic-resistant bacterial Infections. They conclude that given the strong safety profiles of phages, the

Dror Shitrit (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) and colleagues published a paper in ISME Journal on how genetic engineering of marine cyanophages reveals integration but not lysogeny in T7-like cyanophages. They developed a method of

Mar Pérez-Ruiz (National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS on how phage T7 core components assemble to allow DNA translocation across the bacterial envelope. They solved the structures of the core pro

The Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV have published an update of taxonomy changes from 2020-2021 in Archives of Virology. They've created or redefined a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 su

For PHAVES #21, Aël Hardy, PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, will give a talk entitled 'Molecular multitasking: inhibition of phage infection by aminoglycoside antibiotics' on September 7 at 6PM CEST! Register here! (If you'

Thanks so much to all who joined us for our very first Phage Phun hour this week! We'll be hosting these monthly, at alternating times (9AM Pacific, then 3PM Pacific, repeating) on the last Wednesday of each month! Next month will be Wed, S

US phage biotech company Intralytix received a Fast Track NIH SBIR contract to develop a universal, scale-independent AI-based platform for manufacturing high titer phage preparations for clinical applications. Intralytix will receive a Pha

Michael Shamash (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues published a perspective in ISME Journal on phages in the infant gut. They propose a theoretical framework governing early childhood gut virome assembly and development, which depend

Nicole Rutbeek (University of Manitoba, Canada) and colleagues published a research article in JBC on the molecular mechanism of quorum sensing inhibition in Streptococcus by the phage protein paratox. They demonstrated an example of conver

Michael Roach (Flinders University) and colleagues published a new paper in F1000 Research entitled Philympics: Prophage Predictions Perplex Programs. They present a library of gold-standard bacterial genome annotations that include manuall

Kristopher Kieft (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) published a paper in Cell Reports on virus-associated organosulfur metabolism in human and environmental systems. They reported the discovery of 39 gene families involved in organosulf

We had so much fun with you all at the 'Phage Phun' sessions at Evergreen, that we've decided to incorporate these at the end of each month for the phage community at large! Our first 'Phage Phun' session will be this coming Wednesday, Aug