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My advisor is looking for a student who’s interested in phage biology to study with him for Master’s degree at University of Florida, college of veterinary medicine. He has tuition fee and expenses for the student. If anyone knows a undergr

A study led by Carlos Gonzalez and colleagues at the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M has led to the development of the first curative and preventive phage treatment against Xylella fastidiosa, which causes Pierce’s disease in grape

Valuable phages have good shelf-life properties, but how can we reliably characterize the structural parts of the phage particle? Tze Thung (Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University) and colleagues published a new mSystems paper on their new

Branko Rihtman (University of Warwick) and colleagues have published a new paper in Current Biology on their identification of an unusual nucleotide substitution from deoxythymidine to deoxyuridine in a novel family of phages belonging to N

Medeea Popescu (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new review in Annual Review of Virology covering what is currently known about phages and the immune system.

Recognition for the importance of studying phages is growing! Frontiers in Microbiology has introduced a new Phage Biology section!

Some of you may recall that, last year, I put out a call to contribute to a special issue of Pharmaceuticals on “Bacteriophages as Therapeutic Delivery Vehicles.” We have 10 articles published or near completion already but there’s room fo

PHAVES #18 will be a seminar by Rob McBride, co-founder of Felix Biotechnology, on Tues, June 8, 5PM Pacific time. Rob will give a talk on 'Using machine learning to design phages with enhanced therapeutic features'. Small group networking

The African Phage Forum (APF) hosted its third and fourth events in April and May — thanks to all those who attended! APF 3: Dr. Jesca Nakavuma, Veterinarian, Senior Lecturer, Microbiologist, and Former Deputy Principal of the College of V

PHAVES #18 will be a seminar by Rob McBride, co-founder of Felix Biotechnology, on Tues, June 8, 5PM Pacific time. Rob will give a talk on 'Using machine learning to design phages with enhanced therapeutic features'. Small group networking

The Australian Society for Microbiology annual conference is approaching fast — next week to be exact! (May 31-June 3). Excitingly, the program features lots of phage talks! This is a hybrid event, and will run both in-person and online. Re

PhageSuisse will host its third webinar on June 1st at 19h00, entitled "phageSuisse meets industry" with Dr. Frenk Smrekar from JAFRAL and Dr. Lorenzo Corsini from PhagoMed.

The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022 (ViBioM 2022) will be held in Valencia, Spain, 24–25 March 2022. The meeting (currently planned to be in-person) is jointly organized by the European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), th

Wondering whether collecting and studying phages is worth your while? Here's a new article in Cystic Fibrosis News Today that remembers Mallory Smith, a young woman who phages could have saved, if they'd only been accessible a few days earl

Carlos Guerrero-Bustamante (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio showing their progress toward developing a phage cocktail for tuberculosis; using genome engineering and phage genetics, they have created a

Graça Pinto (University of Minho) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Genomics showing insights into the genome architecture and evolution of Shiga toxin encoding phages of E. coli.

Tristan Ferry (Hospices Civils de Lyon) and colleagues published a new case report in Frontiers in Medicine describing the combination of arthroscopic “Debridement Antibiotics and Implant Retention” (DAIR) with local injection of personaliz

Shakhinur Islam Mondal (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in International Journal of Molecular Sciences that characterizes a Clostridioides difficile-specific endolysin that affects spore outgrowth.

Thanks to all those who attended PHAVES #17 this week, where Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, presented their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for rec

The African Phage Forum (APF) will host its fourth event next week, May 26 at 6-8PM East Africa Time (8-10AM Pacific time). The guest speaker will be Dr. Arshnee Moodley, who will give a talk entitled 'Challenges of using phages in the vete