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Varun Rakeshbhai Bavda (IISER, India) and colleagues published a new article on the molecular properties of mycobacteriophage D29 Holin, with an emphasis on potential for holin engineering. They demonstrated crucial amino acid regions for h

PHAVES #13 will be a seminar with Prof. Jonathan Iredell, MBBS, PhD of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research and University of Sydney on Wed, March 10 at 8AM AEDT (Tues, March 9 at 4PM Eastern Time/10PM CET). He will give a talk entit

Good things…. come to those who wait. It is now evident that corona will continue to disrupt our plans to share science and meet at VoM Portugal yet again this year. The local organizers of the upcoming VoM conferences and the ISVM board ha

We are excited to announce that the Viruses of Microbes 2024 meeting will be held in Cairns, Australia! Being situated on the shores of the Great Barrier Reef and surrounded by the oldest rainforest on Earth, Cairns will host a truly unique

The International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC) and Phage Directory are co-hosting a series of Phage Bioinformatics Webinars. The second speaker in the series will be March 2 at 9.00 pm IST / 7.30 am PST, with a talk by Katelyn

phageSuisse is hosting its second webinar on March 2nd at 20h00 CET on "Temperate bacteriophages and the evolution of the Staphylococcus aureus lineage 398" by Dr. Floriane Laumay from Geneva, Switzerland. Register here!

The NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) is hosting Prof. Paul Turner on Wednesday, March 10 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm, who will give a webinar entitled "Phage Therapy to Combat Infections by Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria". Watch at https

The Centre for Microbiology and Phage Therapy (Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation) is organizing their first Annual Phage International Conference on March 12-13, 2021. Register here (conference already in progress!).

Locus Biosciences announced the completion of a phase 1b trial of CRISPR-Cas3-enhanced phage targeting E. coli in urinary tract infections. The trial met all the endpoints, and represents the first randomized, placebo-controlled trial using

TechnoPhage has initiated a phase I/IIa study to test a phage treatment for diabetic foot infections. This product is the first of TechnoPhage’s pipeline to enter clinical trials, constituting an exciting milestone for the company. The resu

Esther Shmidov (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and colleagues published a new paper on a counter selection-based novel method of curing prophages in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. They validated their method with local PCR amplification and whole-ge

Shayla Hesse (National Cancer Institute, USA) and colleagues published a new paper showing that mutations in genes coding for cell surface structures impair adsorption of phages in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. They concluded t

Mabruka Salem (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a new paper on the isolation and characterization of three broad host range Yersinia phages. Phages were characterized with TEM, growth curves, burst size assays, and genome si

[Date change!] The sixth iVoM event will be Thursday, Mar 4, 11AM GMT (note earlier time than usual too!), and the theme will be "Biotechnology applications in health care". It will feature talks by: Laurent Debarbieux: Phages (in)action i

The 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit is taking place virtually on March 23-25. With expert speakers from the FDA, BiomX, Cytophage, Loughborough University and Eligo Bioscience, join us online to progress fundamental bacteriophage research

Next week is Phage Futures 2021 (Feb 24-26)! Jessica and Jan of Phage Directory will be there, along with two dedicated social media assistants, Curtis Hoffmann and Atif Khan, to help keep you all in the loop via Twitter! (Another of our vo

Registration is open for (online) VEGA, Viral EcoGenomics & Applications, 2021. Hosted by the JGI, the goal of this series of online seminars is to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture a

Phage/Virus Assembly 2021 will take place online July 27-30. Register here!

[Date change!] The sixth iVoM event will be Thursday, Mar 4, 11AM GMT (note earlier time than usual too!), and the theme will be "Biotechnology applications in health care". It will feature talks by: Laurent Debarbieux: Phages (in)action i

Prof. Mansel Griffiths (University of Guelph) and Dr. Hany Anany (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph Research and Development Center) are editing a special issue of Viruses entitled "Bacteriophages in Food Applications".