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Clay Crippen (University of Georgia) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing that phages can lead multidrug resistant Acinetobacter isolates to release intact antimicrobial resistance determinants in vitro.

Moran Meir (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and colleagues published a new paper in Science Advances showing that competition between social cheater viruses is driven by mechanistically different cheating strategies.

Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems on their development of a new technology platform that enables on-demand phage production through computationally identifying

Jimmy Trinh (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications looking at lambda phage infecting single host cells using live-cell and in-situ fluorescence imaging. They found that different viral DNAs esta

Holger Loessner (Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics on the use of kinetic fingerprinting to explore the dynamics of specific phage-host pairs, with the goal of designing effective phage thera

Some bacteria release colicins to kill competitors by carefully timing lysis for part of their population at a time. But group B colicins don't come with lysis genes, so how do cells safely release them? Stefanie Spriewald (LMU Munich, Germ

Professor Lone Brøndsted (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) has an opening in her lab for a PhD student to work on a phage-host interaction project.

Heather Allison (University of Liverpool) and Chloe James (University of Salford) are hiring two postdocs, one at Liverpool and one at Salford, for a joint project entitled “Prophage host interactions: pulling back the curtains on Pseudomon

Andrew Hryckowian and Eric Martens have written a nice article on the backstory behind their recent paper on how capsular polysaccharides influence phage interactions with the gut symbiont Bacterioides thetaiotaomicron. Behind-the-paper | N

Retrons are bacterial genetic elements comprised of a reverse transcriptase (RT) and a non-coding RNA, but their functions have been unknown for decades. Adi Millman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and colleagues published a new pre

Another story about phage application in marine aquaculture! Hyoun Joong Kim (Seoul National University) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing the preventive effects of phage against pathogenic Vibrio coralliilyticu

Ayesha Hassim (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing that an "aggressively lytic" phage hampered isolation of Bacillus anthracis from samples collected from the carcass of a wil

Lucy Furfaro (University of Western Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS ONE showing host range, morphological and genomic characterization of phages with activity against clinical Streptococcus agalactiae isolates from p

The Skurnik group at the Unviersity of Helsinki recently published three phage papers in Viruses! The papers span Yersinia phages, Acinetobacter phages, and Klebsiella phages, and between them they cover lytic, temperate and even "non-seque

Rafael Gonzalez-Serrano (Universidad Miguel Hernández) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems describing an Alteromonas-targeting phage representing a new marine myovirus genus. They also determined that this phage requires a tail

Alita Burmeister (Yale University) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how pleiotropy complicates trade-offs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance for a bacterial host, which has implications for phage thera

Alita Burmeister (Yale University) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how pleiotropy complicates trade-offs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance for a bacterial host, which has implications for phage thera

Computational biologist Dr. Alejandro Reyes Muñoz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) discusses virus and phage basics, phage-host interactions, and the novel coronavirus on the Finding Genius Podcast.

Computational biologist Dr. Alejandro Reyes Muñoz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) discusses virus and phage basics, phage-host interactions, and the novel coronavirus on the Finding Genius Podcast.

What happens to the bystanders of a phage-host interaction? Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage infection induces the type 7 secretion system in Enterococcus f