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Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for the 24th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting (and first time as a hybrid physical/virtual meeting!), which is wrapping up today! We had an incredible time with all of you! For all of

Jonathan Lynch (University of Hawaii, USA) and colleagues published a preprint on host- and bacterium-based determinants that protect squid-associated Vibrio fischeri from phage predation. They show that mutations in V. fischeri's exopolysa

Matthew Bond (Dartmouth College, USA) published a paper in eLife on how matrix-trapped viruses can prevent invasion of bacterial biofilms by colonizing cells. They showed that T7 phage remains viable when trapped in an E. coli biofilm, and

Audrey Labarde (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS on temporal compartmentalization of viral infection in bacterial cells. They showed that infection of Bacillus subtilis by phage SPP1 hijacks host rep

Kema Malki (University of South Florida) and colleagues published a paper in AEM on spatial and temporal dynamics of prokaryotic and viral community assemblages in a lotic system. They looked at prokaryotic and viral abundance and diversity

Rosanna Wright (University of Manchester, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how functional diversity increases efficacy of phage combinations. Their findings suggest that functional diversity is the key to effective phage combinati

The 24th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting is coming up in a few days (Aug 2-5, plus workshop days on Aug 1 and 6)! The schedule is up on https://evergreen.phage.directory if you'd like to check it out! And it's not too late t

OnePetri for iOS is now publicly available — accelerating common Petri dish assays with the power of AI! Count hundreds of phage plaques in a matter of seconds and easily perform plaque assay calculations in the palm of your hand. Support f

The Sullivan Lab at OSU has announced that the next OSU Viromics Workshop will be 13-15 October 2021 in Columbus Ohio. Full agenda and application information coming soon!

Want to learn more about phage training? The Phage Phridays Clubhouse team has posted their most recent recording, How to Train a Phage, part 2, which featured Dr. Ville-Petri Friman. Missed part 1? This was a chat with Josh Borin, who shar

Thanks to all who came out to hear from Dr. Gina Suh and John Haverty for PHAVES #20 last week! Gina and John graciously shared their combined 'doctor-patient experience' with phage therapy — such an enlightening session! Recording now avai

BCM TAILOR Labs created a video that explains how clinicians can apply for expanded access or compassionate-use approval of phage therapy in the US through the FDA.

Yue Liu (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands) and colleagues published a new preprint investigating a phenomenon where massive numbers of lipid-engulfed tailless phage particles are released from Lactococcus lactis without causing

Most lysogeny-associated adaptations are through new gene acquisition, but prophages can also insert into functional genes and impart a benefit by disrupting their expression ('active lysogeny'). Christopher Marshall (Marquette University,

CRISPR-Cas12j is a recently identified family of miniature RNA-guided endonucleases from phages. Arturo Carabias (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new Nature Communications paper on the structure of CRISPR-Cas12j3. This

It's recently been discovered that during replication, some jumbo phages (genomes > 200 kb) establish complex subcellular organization within their host. Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak (University of California San Diego) and colleagues published

Joshua Kirsch (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new review in Annual Review of Virology on phage-bacteria interactions in the gut, from invertebrates to mammals. They discuss diverse interactions, includ

A new ESCMID Study Group that will deal with phage therapy has been created: the ESCMID Study Group for Non-traditional Antibacterial Therapy (ESGNTA). ESGNTA aims to explore non-traditional antibacterials including phage and phage-related

ASM Microbe 2022 will be held on June 9-13, 2022 in Washington, DC. This is the biggest microbiology conference in the world, and we strongly believe that there should be a session dedicated to phage therapy, which we would like to propose

Africa Phage Forum #5 will be a talk entitled 'Shaping P. aeruginosa phages by genome engineering' by Diana Priscila Pires, PhD, postdoc researcher at CEB - Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. Join us Fr