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When the CDC reported a recent outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa linked to artificial tears, IPATH's Co-Director, Chip Schooley, requested the Pseudomonas isolates associated with the outbreak. Fortunately,

Yunha Hwang and colleagues found that virus-host interactions in dense hydrothermal mats involve crossing microbial domains and nested metabolisms. They saw that unrelated microbes encode CRISPR immunity against the same viruses, suggesting

Nikhil George & Laura Hug examined a landfill via virus-host CRISPR spacer mapping, and found multiple examples of atypical virus-host dynamics, such as hyper-targeted viral populations, interviral conflicts, and non-specific viruses.

Tram Le and colleagues show the therapeutic potential of IV phage for recurrent urinary tract infections, describing a kidney transplant recipient with ESBL Klebsiella pneumoniae who was successfully treated with 4 weeks of IV phage therapy

Olaya Rendueles and colleagues have described how fitness costs drive competition between lysogenic and sensitive bacteria by co-cultivating a phage-sensitive strain and a polylysogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae strain under different phage pre

The Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics group at Utrecht University is seeking a PhD candidate to join a new research group headed by Dr. Bram van Dijk, which will specialize in building multi-scale simulations of microbial ecosystems. T

The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs seeks to fill a non-tenure track PhD Research and Teaching Scholar position starting August 2023. They invite applicants interested in dsD

The Division of Gastroenterology at UC San Diego is seeking a Research Associate to perform cellular and animal lab experiments, develop multiple research projects about intestinal microbiota and its relationship with liver disease, and des

Phagos, a French biotech company that raised $2.4 in 2022 to make custom phages for agriculture is hiring for several positions.

[Senior Research Technician](Please shahttps://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=MED150823) at University of Nottingham, UK in Nottingham The person appointed will be working in a busy research environment which carries out high impact

This week Jessica Sacher continues her 'qPCR for phage therapy' series. She takes us through how we know if our qPCR worked, what to look for, and how to interpret how much phage/bacteria were in our samples based on the results. Welcome to

Top Agar Question This is a basic question but one I do need advice with. My high school phage team will begin looking for a phage next fall from a new host. The host has not been studied much for phages. How do you choose a top agar for n

Phages seem to be saving lives left and right, but still, they remain unapproved drugs in most countries. Pharma companies don't sell them; hospitals and pharmacies don’t stock them. In this Wired article, Maryn McKenna covers phage therapy

In a new paper in Nature, Joseph Kreitz (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and colleagues show that Photorhabdus virulence cassette (PVCs), part of a class of syringe-like nanomachines resembling phage tails, can be reprogrammed for protein

By analyzing metagenomic samples from IBD patients, Shaqed Carasso (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) and colleagues identified invertible regions that correlate with disease, including Bacteroides fragilis polysaccharide-A, which is

This week's EMDB (Electron Microscopy Data Bank) release includes this beautiful 4.4 Å single particle CryoEM structure of a phicrAss001 virion!

This review by Fazal Mehmood Khan (Shenzhen University) and colleagues provides an update on the use of animal models in phage therapy, summarizing preclinical approaches in various in-vivo models and highlighting the need for pharmacokinet

Research and Teaching Post-doc at University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs seeks to fill a non-tenure track PhD Research and Teaching Schol

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (Singapore) is seeking a Research Assistant to work with Dr. Kevin Pethe on evaluating therapeutic phages in animal models of bacterial infections.

The US FDA is seeking applications for three phage therapy-related research opportunities (open to post-baccalaureate, post-masters, and postdocs). Projects are aimed at evaluating the use of phage to treat Staphyloccocus aureus colonizatio