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The 4th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance, organized jointly by the CAS in Botany, University of Madras, and Water and Steam Chemistry Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Facilities, will

Phage Germany is an initiative that aims to promote awareness and adoption of phage therapy, emphasizing the need to educate doctors and pharmacists to improve patient outcomes and combat AMR.

UCSD PREPARE is hosting a phage seminar ‘From Bog to Bedside' with Steffanie Strathdee on June 29, 2023 at 1:30 pm PT.

TechLink Health has released two phage podcasts on defeating superbugs and the role of phage therapy: one with Steffanie Strathdee, Co-Director of IPATH, and one with Rob McBride, CEO of Felix Biotechnology.

University of Toronto has received a $5 million dollar gift to start a phage therapy center in Canada, to be led by infectious disease microbiologist Greg German MD, PhD. It will include creation of a professorship in phage therapy research

A new paper published in Microbiology Spectrum by Magdalena Unterer (Helmholtz Centre Munich) describes a high-throughput method for identifying and characterizing phages for phage therapy, revealing cell-to-cell variations in phage kinetic

Elliot Macdonald and colleagues at Newcastle University have identified a new anti-phage system called Shield, found in Pseudomonas, made of a core component ShdA and a membrane-bound protein with an RmuC domain, which provides a new mechan

Maria Villalba (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and colleagues describe in PNAS their new optical nanomotion method to test single-bacterium viability and antibiotic response in 1-2 hours using a basic microscope, a c

Lene Bens (KU Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues published a perspective on phage therapy for Hidradenitis Suppurativa, highlighting the unique challenge and opportunity for personalized treatment of a complex, inflammatory disease.

ERYTECH Pharma shareholders approved the merger with Pherecydes at the June 23, 2023 combined meeting. The company was renamed Phaxiam Therapeutics. www.globenewswire.com

Streptomyces lividans, a model filamentous Gram-positive bacterium with conserved contractile-injection-system gene clusters, makes phage tail-like particles (SLPs) that stay in the cytoplasm instead of being released. Without SLPs, aerial

This week I’m excited to share how I’ve been using the AKTA Flux system to purify phages for patients. What used to be overwhelming now feels pretty dreamy. Worth considering for any phage lab making patient-ready preps! This week I’m excit

Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) is hiring a Research Assistant 3 to coordinate research activities aimed at studying the life cycle of a phage that infects Pseudomonas aeruginosa

The Faculty of Biology at the University of Gdansk, Poland is hiring an Assistant Professor.

Phagos, a phage biotech company in France, is hiring a bioinformatician to create and manage analysis pipelines, mainly from Nanopore DNA sequencing data.

Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) is hiring a Research Assistant 2 to conduct basic research into the study of Pseudomonas phage lifecycles.

The Venture Unit (Engineered Phage Therapy) at Astellas Pharma in Japan is hiring a Senior Associate to develop and implement phage technologies.

CNRS, France, is hiring a PhD student to study the domestication of phages for therapeutic uses.

The Evergreen International Phage Meeting is happening Aug 6-11, 2023, live in Olympia, Washington, USA! This is an in-person meeting, better known as Phage Camp! Come present your phage work, climb mountains with other phage scientists, pl

Dear phage researchers, You’re invited to participate in a new initiative to draft guidelines for managing phage banks, led by Tobi Nagel (Phages for Global Health) and Francesca Hodges (Innovate UK KTN). Stage 1 (online survey: OPEN NOW):