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BBC Future has published a great in-depth feature called 'The viruses that prey on human diseases', featuring interviews with directors of the Eliava Institute (Mzia Kutateladze) and Queen Astrid Military Hospital phage therapy unit (Jean-P

Yuping Li and Joseph Bondy-Denomy (University of California San Francisco) published a new review in Cell Host & Microbe discussing how anti-CRISPRs affect the ecology and evolution of bacteria and phage.

Carly Davis (University of Alberta, Canada) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing that aztreonam lysine (an antibiotic) increases the activity of phages E79 and phiKZ against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01.

Amjad Khan (Western University, Canada) and colleagues published a paper in PLOS Computational Biology showing that evolution along the parasitism-mutualism continuum determines the genetic repertoire of prophages.

In light of the COVID crisis, there seems to be renewed interest in using phages to deliver genetic material in the body. Matthew Tridgett (University of Warwick) and colleagues published a new paper detailing their method for engineering b

PhageAI 0.7.2 has been released! What's new: Life cycle classifier v1.3 to distinguish between virulent and temperate phages (accuracy benchmark); PhageAI as free Python package on GitHub and PyPI; Duplicate samples detection alert in phag

International Bacteriophage Research Consortium on Twitter: "IBRC springs into action with its lecture series - 2021. We have Prof. Paul Turner onboard with us! An expert in steering phages and INSeq mutagenesis, Prof. Turner is an establis

Mayo Clinic is hosting a webinar on machine learning in phage therapy Jan 27 1PM MST. Register here. Featured Speaker: Cedric Lood, Researcher-Arenberg Doctoral Program at KU Leuven University-Belgium. Gina Suh, M.D. and William Faubion, M.

We had a great time kicking off PHAVES for 2021 this week — thanks to everyone who attended! We had an awesome casual chat with phage researchers around the world, heard about what people are working on, what they're proud of from 2020, and

Fantastic turnout for the first Africa Phage Forum webinar this week — thanks to the ~70 attendees who were there, and thanks to Dr. Paul Turner who gave a thought-provoking talk and extensive Q&A! Sign up for future Africa Phage Forum eve

Paris phage biotech company Eligo Bioscience announced a new agreement worth up to $224M with GlaxoSmithKline, which is aimed at advancing Eligobiotics® for acne treatment/prevention. Eligo employs CRISPR-based phage therapeutics for microb

Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS Genetics showing phage infection and sub-lethal antibiotic exposure mediate Enterococcus faecalis type VII secretion system depende

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Microbiology showing that phage-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are resensitized to antimicrobials. They found that phage-resistant

Duhita Sant (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution showing that host diversity slows phage adaptation by selecting generalists over specialists. These findings support the evolution

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a new paper in Molecular Cell showing how a phage-encoded anti-activator inhibits quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

The fifth iVoM event will be Thursday, January 21, 4pm GMT, and the theme will be "Agro-food, veterinary and environmental biotechnology applications". It will feature talks by: Sam R. Nugen - Department of Food Science and Technology, Co

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting its next phage webinar in its series, Feb 15 at 4pm GMT / 11am Eastern with special guest Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, who will give a talk entitled Basics of phage genome annotation and classification - how t

PHAVES #11 will be a casual mixer to kick off the new year! We'll get together on Zoom January 12 at 11:00 AM Eastern. We'll start off with a bit of an "open mic" / "show and tell", where attendees will have the option to share something th

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting a new phage webinar series, starting Jan. 14 at 11AM EST (4PM GMT) with special guest Dr. Paul Turner. Dr. Turner will give a talk entitled 'From the environment to bedside: understanding the basics of phag

The fifth iVoM event will be Thursday, January 21, 4pm GMT, and the theme will be "Agro-food, veterinary and environmental biotechnology applications". It will feature talks by: Sam R. Nugen - Department of Food Science and Technology, Co