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Rebecca Wattam of PATRIC (alongside Ramy Aziz) taught an incredibly helpful phage genome annotation workshop at the Evergreen phage meeting earlier this month. Did you know Rebecca has also created a Coursera course on Bacterial Bioinformat

Phages for Global Health and their phage development work in Africa was covered in this C&EN Chemical Engineering News piece. It gets into what prompted Tobi Nagel to start PGH, and illustrates some exciting agricultural phage work they're

Daniel Gelman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in The Lancet Microbe entitled Clinical Phage Microbiology: a suggested framework and recommendations for the in-vitro matching steps of phage therapy. This

Janina Rahlff (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and colleagues published a paper in Nature Communications on how lytic archaeal viruses infect abundant primary producers in Earth’s crust. They used a combination of metagenomics and a

Sooyeon Song (Pennsylvania State Universtiy, Pennsylvania) and colleagues published a preprint on how CRISPR-Cas controls cryptic prophages. They demonstrated that the E. coli CRISPR-Cas system is active and inhibits its nine defective prop

Xiaoqing Wang (Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, China) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage resistance mechanisms increase colistin sensitivity in Acinetobacter baumannii.

Interested in contributing a blog post about your phage work (or your phage initiative) to C&T? Check out our Guest Writer Guide! In keeping with our 4x per year draft submission deadline system, our next deadline is approaching! - For Ja

Ricardo Pascal, a bioinformatics engineer in Denmark, is tracking the phage software ecosystem. Feel free to add a link or two to his list!

Dr. Chip Schooley is leading an International Antiviral Society-USA webinar on phage therapy Aug 17 at 10AM. This is designed for clinical decision makers actively involved in HIV care and research, including physicians, physician assistant

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! We will announce the first one soon! Phage Phun: informal, self-s

Proteon Pharmaceuticals announced an investment of 21 million Euro to accelerate commercialization of its phage products, which aim to reduce reliance on antibiotics in aquaculture and livestock farming, improve on-farm performance and incr

Ameneh Khatami (The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in EMBO Molecular Medicine on bacterial lysis, autophagy and innate immune responses during adjunctive phage therapy in a chi

Christopher Turkington (University of California, Merced) and colleagues published a preprint on hafeZ, a tool able to identify ‘active’ prophages within bacterial genomes through genomic read mapping. They've applied hafeZ to publicly avai

Quentin Leclerc (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and colleagues published a preprint on the dual nature of phage: growth-dependent predation and generalized transduction of antimicrobial resistance. They developed mathematical

Kristen LeGault (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a paper in Science on how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern phage-pathogen conflicts. They used time-shift experiments to look at co-evolut

Interested in contributing a blog post about your phage work (or your phage initiative) to C&T? Check out our Guest Writer Guide! In keeping with our 4x per year draft submission deadline system, our next deadline is approaching! - For Ja

Interested in contributing a blog post about your phage work (or your phage initiative) to C&T? Check out our Guest Writer Guide! In keeping with our 4x per year draft submission deadline system, our next deadline is approaching! - For Ja

PhReD Database is relaunching! The Phage Receptor Database (PhReD) compiles receptors involved in phage-host recognition. We are proud to have partnered with the Bio-conversion Databank Foundation (BioDF) to relaunch and continuously impr

Hello everybody! I was wondering if someone has on their collection or knows someone that has the phiCTX phage from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. I am looking for a cos-type phage in PA and it seems that’s one of the few well characterised. — Ro

Volta Labs is automating Next Generation Sequencing sample prep (for Illumina, Oxford Nanopore and Pac Bio). They recognize that increasing the throughput (and lowering the cost) of sequencing will become critical to the phage field moving