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A new ISME Journal article by Xiang Tang and colleagues shows lysogenic phages with arsM-bearing markers help bacterial communities adapt to trivalent arsenic toxicity. The phage-host interaction enabled the quick spread of arsM among soil

Pulmonary infections caused by Mycobacterium abscessus have been increasing. This study by Mylene Gorzynski and colleagues deepens our understanding of phage–mycobacteria interaction mechanisms and identifies therapeutic phages that can low

University of Leicester is seeking a Lecturer in Phage Biology.

Nature Communications paper using cryo-electron microscopy of short Ff-derived nanorods to determine a structure of a filamentous virus (f1, fd or M13 phages) including the tips. Combined with mutagenesis, it identifies phage domains import

Want to hear Joana Azeredo talk about phage activity against biofilms? Or Martin Loessner speaking about L-forms and endolysins? How to set up an Appleman´s protocol with Ben Burrowes? This week a group of PhD students in the Azeredo Lab in

Research Internship at Balgrist University: This full-time remunerated internship entails generating large scale datasets for phage activity against large collections of pathogenic bacteria, validating assays to best predict therapeutic eff

Fulbright Israel is offering up to eight fellowships to U.S. postdoctoral scholars who seek to pursue research in one of Israel's academic institutions. The grants are open to researchers in all academic disciplines and support programs of

The Phage Therapy Today podcast interviewed Johan Wikstroem, the CEO of tolka.ai, about his story in transitioning from tech to biotech and founding a phage therapy company with the goal of treating his own M. abscessus infection and helpin

Kids Research (part of Sydney Children's Hospitals Network) is hosting a webinar on May 19, 2023 at 2:00 PM AEST on phage therapy entitled "Phage Therapy in Australia: STAMPing out problematic infections". The webinar will be presented by P

From Sabrina Green via Twitter: Check out this documentary on #phage therapy in Belgium and Portugal. It is in Portuguese but interviews mostly in English.

The 2023 Symposium on New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-host Interactions (October 2-4, 2023) will bring together researchers studying new concepts and mechanisms in phage biology, with topics including viral cell biology, anti-viral defens

Our volunteer Atif Khan was selected for the FEMS #OnThisDay volunteer team. The #OnThisDayteam aims to assemble a collection of historically important microbiology events for every single day of the year. These events could be interesting

Evelien Adriaenssens wrote a piece for The Conversation on how thousands of phages (most of them unknown!) have been found in baby poo! The original study was done by a collaborative team from Denmark, Canada and France. And they even made

Toronto clinician Dr. Greg German: reports the first research use of a phage cocktail to treat an infection in Canada!

This article by Mart Krupovic and colleagues discusses the origin of the eukaryotic cell and the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA). They reconstructed the LECA virus repertoire and found that the origin of the LECA virome can be traced

Y. Emre Gencay and colleagues have developed engineered phages with CRISPR-Cas machinery to reduce E. coli in mice. The phages, called SNIPR001, were well tolerated in mouse models and minipigs, and out-competed their ancestral wild-type ph

Matthew C Johnson and colleagues have shown that Pseudomonas aeruginosa exhibits the greatest diversity of anti-phage systems among 30 species. They identified two core defense hotspot loci (cDHS1 and cDHS2) where many anti-phage immune sys

Nature Biotechnology paper on SNIPR001: from a library of 162 wild-type phages, eight with broad E. coli coverage were selected and engineered with tail fibers and CRISPR–Cas machinery to target E. coli. A combination of the four most compl

This month, we talked about analyzing qPCR results, Phage Australia's official response to the Phage UK inquiry, and got hands on with building a project with ChatGPT! We put out some good work in April! This month we’ve been neck deep in d

The Israeli Phage Therapy Center (IPTC) has received 159 requests for phage therapy, with 38% of them being for multi-drug resistant bacteria. Respiratory and bone infections were the most prevalent indications. 20 phage therapy courses wer