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The 27th annual Boston Bacterial Meeting is going to be held on June 10-11, 2021 organized by a diverse group of students and post-docs from several institutions. It has talks on Antibiotic Resistance (chaired by John Dekker, National Insti

We hosted Dr. Justin Clark (phage bioinformatician at BCM Tailor Labs) in our recent phage bioinformatics series (co-hosted with IBRC), and many of you have been excitedly waiting for the recording! While unforeseen factors prevented us fro

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

Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens and Dr. Matthew Gilmour (Quadram Institute, Norwich, UK) have won BBSRC partnership awards to collaborate with Canadian researchers! Dr. Adriaenssens’ partnership is with Dr. Hany Anany's lab at Agriculture and Agri

Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper describing INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database (INPHARED): a way to identify large-scale biases in the current collection of phage genomes. It includes a sc

Larissa Kever (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that aminoglycoside antibiotics inhibit phage infection by blocking an early step of the phage infection cycle. Paper | Tweet thread by Aël Ha

Mihnea Mangalea (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing that individuals at risk for rheumatoid arthritis harbor differential intestinal phage communities with distinct

Keiko Salazar (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio showing antiviral resistance and phage counter adaptation to antibiotic-resistant Extraintestinal Pathogenic E. coli.

The World Microbe Forum 2021 (June 20-24, online; an ASM and FEMS collaboration) this year will include a session on viruses of microbes convened by Madalena Pimental and Rob Lavigne, on behalf of the Viruses of Microbes 2020 team and ISVM,

We cordially invite you to participate in the 2nd German Phage Symposium, which will take place Sept 13-14, 2021 at the University of Hohenheim, and will include keynote speakers Prof. Anat Herskovits, Prof. Ian J. Molineux and Prof. Dr. Jo

Next week on Clubhouse Phage Phridays (audio-only, casual drop-in discussions), our guest will be Dominic Sauvageau from the University of Alberta, who will chat with us about the 'phage virulence index' his lab has developed to quantify ph

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

Update from the PhageAI crew: We're proud to announce to you the release of PhageAI 0.8.0: extended repository and two new features: closest phages and Expert form! What's new: - uploading your sample and discovering top-10 closest phages

Courtney Davies (Massey University, New Zealand) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing that Mycobacteriophage endolysins can kill Mycobacteria when fused to 'PLAN-M' biodegradable nanobeads, which can be

Not one but THREE new papers published today in Science on phage DNA modications; they collectively describe a new pathway for purine biosynthesis and substitution of adenine by diaminopurine, found to be widespread in phages! Check out thi

Most tests for Lyme Disease detect antibodies, which are often not present until weeks after infection by the causative pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi. Jinyu Shan (University of Leicester) published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology

Jutta Kasurinen (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a paper in Viruses on a new method for screening for phage-encoded toxic proteins using a Next Generation Sequencing-based assay.

Pappu Mandal (University of Technology Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbiology showing that phage infection of E. coli leads to the formation of membrane vesicles via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing.

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

Dear fellow virologists, Welcome to the first conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV), which is a global non-profit organization established in 2017, to connect virologists around the world, with no restrictions or boundaries, an