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The Phage Virus Assembly conference (#PVA2021) will take place online July 27–30, 14:00–18:00 (BST, GMT+1:00). Register for the conference here. Submit your abstracts by May 31!

We warmly invite you to attend our 11th annual international bacteriophage conference “Phages 2021” – the longest running phage conferences series in Europe - which will be held virtually, via Zoom or equivalent, on 07th-08th September 2021

Check out this podcast interview with Felix Biotech co-founder and CEO, Rob McBride, who talks about how phage can be used to combat urgent microbial challenges in human health and beyond!

The NSW Government, Australian Federal Government and industry partners have committed $3 Million to launch “Phage Australia”. The project, led by Prof. Jonathan Iredell at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, along with colleagues

Danielle Campbell (University of Illinois) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Reports showing that infection with Bacteroides phage BV01 alters the host transcriptome and bile acid metabolism. News article | Paper

Wai Hoe Chin (Monash University) and colleagues published a new preprint showing phage adaptation to a mammalian mucosa reveals a trans–domain evolutionary axis. Paper | Tweet thread

Betty Shen (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and colleagues published a new paper in Structure showing coordination of phage genome degradation versus host genome protection by a bifunctional restriction-modification enzyme visualize

Colin Lam (Roche Molecular Systems) and colleagues published a new paper in ACS Synthetic Biology showing a tail fiber engineering platform for improved bacterial transduction-based diagnostic reagents.

We warmly invite you to attend our 11th annual international bacteriophage conference “Phages 2021” – the longest running phage conferences series in Europe - which will be held virtually, via Zoom or equivalent, on 07th-08th September 2021

Thanks so much to everyone who attended PHAVES #16 this week! Here's the recording! Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the CU Anschutz and CU Denver gave a fantastic joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvag

PHAVES #17 will be May 18, 5pm CEST (Paris time). Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris will present their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, a

Has anyone in the community used/heard of an automated system that does plaque identification, picking, and subculturing? Please email jessica@phage.directory with suggestions/links — thanks!

My name is Gábor Apjok, a PhD student from the Biological Research Centre of Szeged, Hungary. Recently, our hospitals in Hungary have detected multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which we have started to collect. We are familiar wi

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), a clinical-stage US biotech company, just closed a $40.75 million Series B investment round led by Deerfield Management Company (and also including Mayo Clinic). This will enable APT to accelerate clinical

Technophage, a Portuguese clinical-stage biopharma company, announced today that the US FDA has granted Fast Track designation to TP-102, the company’s first phage cocktail, for the treatment of infected diabetic foot ulcers caused by three

Bridget Watson (University of Exeter) and colleagues published a new review in Cell Host & Microbe on coevolution between bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems and their phages. They discuss when and why CRISPR-Cas immunity against phages evolves, a

Adam Wahida (Technical University of Munich) and colleagues published a new minireview on phage-bacteria-eukaryotic relationships and their influence on human health.

Lorenz Leitner (Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zürich) and colleagues published a new paper in Spinal Cord on the potential role of phages in prolonging life after spinal cord injury.

Tiffany Luong (San Diego State University) and colleagues have published a paper called 'Can Viruses Save Lives?' in the Biomedical Science Journal for Teens that describes their analysis of clinical phage therapy reports published in recen

From @PaulJaschke on Twitter: "I'm looking for images of petri dishes with M13 #phage on them. Can anybody help me out? We're trying to test Plaque Size Tool on turbid plaques and (surprisingly) cannot find any on the internet! Thanks!"