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Martha Clokie and Anisha Thanki received £800,000 from BBSRC to advance a bacteriophage product against Salmonella in chickens. le.ac.uk

Phageguard is listed as an exhibitor at Middle East Poultry Expo, October 4–6, 2026 in Riyadh, showcasing phage-based food-safety applications. @mep_expo

University of Otago researchers Prof Peter Fineran and Dr Robert Fagerlund are studying bacteriophages to tackle bacterial diseases in New Zealand cherry orchards, with funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)

PhageLab CEO Hans Pieringer says the company created an algorithm that evaluates the genome of Salmonella bacteria to identify small differences and understand specific serotypes, antibiotic resistance and pathology, which helps create tail

A phage cocktail targeting Erwinia amylovora, the cause of fire blight, greatly reduced pathogen numbers and disease symptoms in inoculated pear flowers without significantly altering the resident floral microbiome (Holtappels, Wu, Koskella

The first Phage Protein Meeting brought the global community together on September 10–11, 2025, to discuss phage proteins in biocontrol and diagnostics, including clinical data on phage lysins and routes toward clinical use. Ghent, Belgium

Review by Choudhary, Bankole, McDuffee, Parajuli, Poudel, Balogh, Paret and Jones in Viruses on bacteriophages as biocontrol agents against plant bacterial diseases, as an alternative to antibiotics. It discusses barriers to implementation

Atif Khan and Hiren Joshi (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India) published a new research paper on selectively enriching and characterizing stress-tolerant phages for food biocontrol.

University of Otago, New Zealand is hiring a postdoc to contribute to research on enhancing seed inoculants with phages, adaptable phage solutions for biocontrol, and understanding phage-pathogen specificity for phage therapy.

MBIE Endeavour Research Programme (Christchurch, New Zealand) is hiring a Programme Manager to coordinate research projects for the Phage-Based Biocontrol Programme, which involves establishing a pipeline for phage-based biocontrol discover

The 4th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance is hosting ”Phages for Life”, a hybrid conference from Sept 28-30 in Chennai, India and online, with the theme of “Harnessing bacteriophages for human w

ILVO (Flanders, Belgium) is hiring a PhD student to study the use of phages for controlling Pseudomonas in cherry crops.

The 4th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance is hosting ”Phages for Life”, a hybrid conference from Sept 28-30 in Chennai, India and online, with the theme of “Harnessing bacteriophages for human w

KU Leuven, Belgium is hiring a PhD researcher for synergistic biocontrol technologies in strawberry pest management.

PhD project to study microbiome-based strategies for biocontrol of C. difficile at the Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK.

Mpho Defney Maje (North-West University, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper on pathogenic, antibiotic-resistant Vibrio species found in drinking water, along with their isolation of two lytic phages that could be exploited f

Bacterial pathogens of fish cause major problems for fish farmers. Bernardo Veyrand‐Quirós (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico) and colleagues published a new paper in the Journal of Applied Microbiology showing that phage therapy incre

Ahmed Sofy (Al-Azhar University, Egypt) and colleagues published a new paper in Foods on their use of a polyvalent phage to successfully control coagulase-negative Staphylococcus strains (including biofilm dispersal) in a food setting.

Przemysław Decewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland) and colleagues have isolated two virulent phages infecting Ochrobactrum spp. for the first time. The host, due to its extensive repertoire of enzymatic properties, is a key player in the bi

Przemysław Decewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland) and colleagues have isolated two virulent phages infecting Ochrobactrum spp. for the first time. The host, due to its extensive repertoire of enzymatic properties, is a key player in the bi