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Call for papers for our special issue topic in Microorganisms, "Bacteriophages-Based Technologies for a One Health Society: Applications in Clinical, Veterinary, and Industrial Settings". Guest editors: Dr. Karen D. Weynberg, Dr. Sabrina Gr

A year ago on Twitter, Jeremy Barr (Monash University) shared a picture of several 40-year old phage stocks, and asked "what should we do with them?" People said 'check titre!' 'get WGS' and 'are they the same as the stock phages we've all

Phages are generally described as species-specific or even strain-specific, but how often do we really check? Daniel Cazares (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) and colleagues pitted phages against a diverse collection of 600

Ali Khalid (Westmead Institute of Medical Research) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology entitled A Phage Therapy Guide for Clinicians and Basic Scientists: Background and Highlighting Applications for Developin

Elhanan Tzipilevich (Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that bacteria elicit a transient phage tolerance response subsequent to infection of their neighbors!

Quentin Lamy-Besnier (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues have created a Viral Host Range database, a tool that they built to gather, analyze and search experimental host-range information. They hope this will help leverage the experimental ho

Analysis of phage genomes replete with hypothetical genes is a challenge. Given the importance of genomic characterization of phages to understand their biology and for their safe use, International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC)

Phage enthusiasts need to take a 3-min break and watch this awesome student-made video breaking down phage lysogeny and the 'Piggyback the winner' hypothesis, set to the tune of a Justin Timberlake song... (no sound until around 0:26; then

Listen to soil phage ecologist Gary Trubl talk soil microbes and viral ecology on the Storytellers of STEMM podcast!

Viruses has an upcoming Special Issue on 'State-of-the-Art Phage Therapy Development in Europe'. They are looking for research articles, review articles and short communications related to: experimental and applied phage therapy; host–patho

FDA has cleared Adaptive Phage Therapeutics to start formally investigating use of its PhageBank™ to treat prosthetic joint infections. This gives APT the green light to start a phase 1/2 clinical trial in the first half of 2021 in collabor

Sabrina Green (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio showing that a novel phage uses its tail fiber to bind to certain mammalian gut glycans, which helps it better target its host in the gut by localizing

Ruby Lin (Westmead Institute for Medical Research) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Opinion in Biotechnology detailing their vision for a nationally-networked approach to personalized phage therapy in Australia, based around

Fatma Abdelrahman (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) and colleagues from 7 countries (Egypt, India, Nigeria, Australia, China, Pakistan, Spain), many of them early career researchers, published a new review in Antibiotics on pha

Athina Zampara (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology on developing innolysins (endolysins fused to phage receptor binding proteins) against Campylobacter jejuni using a novel p

The first Africa Phage Forum recording is now on YouTube! Catch Prof. Paul Turner's talk on phage therapy, from environment to bedside if you missed it! Great job organizers Emmanuel Nnadi & Angela Makumi of APF; it was a pleasure to collab

Dear iVoM participants, If you've attended at least two iVoM events, you're invited to participate in a contest! The contest aims at having the audience feedback regarding the iVoM: Viruses of Microbes 2020 Webinar Series: Take a walk on th

The sixth iVoM event will be Thursday, February 18, 11AM GMT (note time change!), and the theme will be "Biotechnology applications in health care". It will feature talks by: Laurent Debarbieux: Phages (in)action in the gut Krystyna Dabrows

The Center for Microbiome Science at Ohio State University is hosting a Microbiome Informatics webinar series, running from March to May 2021. Register here! This series represents a first phase effort to digitize 7 years of a hands-on info

As promised, the 24th biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting will take place the first week of August 2021! Assuming it is safe to do so, the conference will be hosted in person on the Evergreen campus, in the dorms, as done in the