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You can now watch the recording of PHAVES #19: Phage therapy for difficult-to-treat infections in children, with Dr. Ameneh Khatami here on the Phage Directory YouTube channel — PHAVES playlist. Thanks to everyone who came out for this even

Phage Phridays on Clubhouse released this recording of last week's conversation with Josh Borin from the Meyer lab at UCSD, wherein they discuss his PNAS paper titled "Coevolutionary phage training leads to greater bacterial suppression and

Biochimpharm, a Georgian phage biotech company, has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the EU and the United Nations FAO to support production of PowerPhage, a phage cocktail product that targets Salmonella, E. coli and Shigella, for veteri

Microviridae (a family of tiny ssDNA phages) tend to dominate human viromes, yet little is known about them. Paul Kirchberger (UT Austin) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how microviruses encode defensive hypervariabl

Luke Hillary (Bangor University, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how diverse soil RNA viral communities have the potential to influence grassland ecosystems across multiple trophic levels. They ide

Yicheng Xie (Texas A&M) and colleagues published a research article in Frontiers in Microbiology on differential phage efficacy in controlling Salmonella in cattle hide and soil models. They found that phage ability to plaque on a bacterial

Daniela Staquicini (Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS on the design and proof of concept of two phage-based, cold-free COVID-19 vaccination strategies. They show that aerosol vaccination wi

From the Center for Phage Technology, via Twitter: "Are you interested in attending a potential 1-day workshop and training session on the use of the CPT's Galaxy-Apollo platform for phage genome annotation? The workshop would likely run in

## There's still time to register for Evergreen! Sign up here to be part of the longest running phage meeting. Phagebiotics Research Foundation and Phage Directory present the 24th biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting August 2-5

Tired of manually counting plaques on petri dishes? Harness the power of AI to count plaques in near real-time with OnePetri, an automated plaque counting iOS app. Here’s a short clip of the app in action. I am looking for beta testers to

The FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and NIH's NIAID have announced a public workshop entitled “Science and Regulation of Bacteriophage Therapy.” The purpose of the public workshop is to exchange information with the medi

I observed lysis plaques all over ATCC P. aeruginosa 27853 soft agar overlay prepared from overnight bacterial cultures. The bacterial strain is reported to contain prophage sequences in its genome. ATCC website also mentions that phage may

Rebekah Dedrick (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Medicine on how antibody-mediated neutralization limited phage treatment of a pulmonary M. abscessus infection. They used the same phages that worked

Matthias Hoetzinger (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and colleagues published a paper in Environmental Microbiology on how the dynamics of Baltic Sea phages are driven by environmental changes. They isolated 121 phage strains infecting three b

Hayley Nordstrom (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) and colleagues published a preprint showing genomic and functional characterization of P. aeruginosa-targeting phages isolated from hospital wastewater. They used a panel of cli

Karen Fong (Summerland Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues published a review article in PHAGE on the host range of phages and its impact on the agri-food sector. They discuss the research pro

Diana Pires (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a review in Annual Review of Virology on understanding the complex phage-host interactions in biofilm communities. They summarize the main features affecting phage-biofilm

Note: date/time change! For PHAVES #20 next week, Dr. Gina Suh, MD (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) and John Haverty will present a doctor-patient experience with phage therapy on July 22 at 2:30 PM Eastern! Gina treated John's leg with phages

Sabrina Green (Baylor College of Medicine, Australia) has created a Facebook group Phage Phridays at Clubhouse. Join the group to get updates on exciting phage-related talks from phage researchers every Friday, and to catc

Felix Biotechnology announced a new collaboration with high-tech skincare company Biocogent. The project is focused on developing novel, chemical-free and safe phage-based solutions to target problematic bacteria in the skin microbiome.