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Whitney Greene (Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, Florida) and colleagues published a paper in the Journal of Aquatic Animal Health describing the successful treatment of Shelley* the sea turtle with phages! *Some of you may remember us

Nichith Ratheesh (Arizona State University) published a preprint on how a member of the oral microbiota can actively transport phages by swarming, leading to disruption of E. coli biofilms. They found that Capnocytophaga gingivalis forms tu

Ankita Kothari (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) and colleagues published a paper in mSystems on how ecogenomics of groundwater phages suggests niche differentiation is linked to specific environmental tolerance. They analyzed gr

Nicholas Swanson (Thomas Jefferson University, USA) and colleagues published a paper in Molecular Cell on the cryo-EM structure of the periplasmic tunnel of the T7 DNA-ejectosome. They reconstituted the phage T7 DNA-ejectosome components an

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

Call any and all US phage researchers. Does anyone have 500ml Nalgene Polycarbonate centrifuge bottles (3122-0500 or 3140-0500 from Thermo). They are needed for an emergency phage treatment. Contact James Gurney if you can help; and/or plea

The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (Kids Research) is excited to present the 4th webinar in their Advanced Therapeutics webinar series, "When a Virus is the Cure – phage therapy & mini lungs", which will focus on phage therapy and airw

ModelMEMS (Modelling Microbial Ecology at Multiple Scales) is hosting its second tutorial (virtually) Aug 17th (3-6 pm): "Exploring bacterial and phage interactions with dynamical models" Hilje Doekes will give the next tutorial in August,

The Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting will be held virtually on August 2, 2021. Register for free here. The conference is calling for the submission of oral and poster abstract submissions (schedule to be announced soon).

Xiaorong Wu (The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio on how phage T4 escapes CRISPR attack by 'minihomology' (very short stretches of sequence identity) recombination and repair. This

Bjorn Criel (Ghent University, Belgium) and colleagues published a research article in Viruses on PhaLP: a database for the study of phage lytic proteins and their evolution. This database serves as an open portal to facilitate the developm

Anna Dragoš (Technical University of Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology on how phages carry interbacterial weapons encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters. They investigated phage-encoded Biosynthetic Gene Cluste

Tamsin Redgwell (Copenhagen University Hospital) and colleagues published a preprint in bioRxiv describing how prophages in the infant gut are largely induced, and may be functionally relevant to their hosts. They found prophages in the inf

Amber Dance (science journalist in Los Angeles, California) published a Nature news feature article on the virus discoveries transforming biology. She highlighted the work of Mya Breitbart, Frederik Sc

Recent updates to C&T guest writing process! Thanks to our super engaged community of phage enthusiasts (all of you!) we are outgrowing our old ways of getting each Capsid & Tail feature ready the week or two before it comes out. So we're

Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, India is organizing the 2nd International Conference on Bacteriophage Research on July 22-24, 2021. The aim of this conference is to bring researchers, professors, and university students from

Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research) and colleagues published a preprint on L-form switching in pathogenic Escherichia coli. They demonstrated that the osmotically fragile L-form is highly tolerant of oxidat

Rodrigo Ibarra-Chávez (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a review in FEMS on emerging applications of phage satellites in biotechnology. They found phage satellites exploit phages to ensure their own propagation and horizon

Michael Blazanin and Paul Turner (Yale University) published a preprint in EcoEvoRxiv on the role of community context in shaping bacteria-phage ecology and evolution. They synthesized the emerging body of bacteria-phage experiments in medi

Kristopher Kieft (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and colleagues published a research article in Nature Communications on the ecology of inorganic sulfur auxiliary metabolism in widespread phages. They identified 191 phages encoding 227 au