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Brittany Supina (University of Alberta) and colleagues published a new paper on isolation and characterization of a novel Burkholderia jumbo phage, showing it uses flagella as a receptor, controls rice seedling rot, and steers B. glumae tow

Milan Gerovac has started a new junior research group, Complexes in Phage-infected Cells, at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, and is hiring for a PhD position to explore jumbo phage biology.

Deepto Mozumdar (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues have characterized a new lipid-based jumbo phage compartment — a hub for early phage infection. The study explores how phage ΦKZ assembles a vesicle to protect its gen

Claire Kokontis (UC San Francisco) and colleagues have discovered the importance of conserved jumbo phage factors for protein import into a phage nucleus.

UC San Diego is hiring a Staff Research Associate to design and construct jumbo phage genomes for new phage production, involving computational design, synthetic biology, and yeast genetics.

Ming Hu (Qingdao University, China) and colleagues have isolated and characterized two novel, highly pH- and temperature-stable jumbo phages and found they have strong potential to eliminate Klebsiella pneumoniae in sewage water.

In the arms race between bacteria and phages, some large-genome jumbo phages have evolved a protein shell that encloses their replicating genome. In a new preprint, Eray Enustun and colleagues have used proximity labeling to identify a ‘pha

Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes and colleagues published a preprint highlighting the potential of jumbo phages in combating Pseudomonas recently associated with the eyedrop outbreak that led to three deaths this year.

A subset of jumbo phages have recently been shown to encode a 'phage nucleus' for sequestering the phage genome away from host nucleolytic attack. Eliza Nieweglowska (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues published a new p

Erica Birkholz (University of California, San Diego) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing a cytoskeletal vortex drives phage nucleus rotation during jumbo phage replication in E. coli.

It's recently been discovered that during replication, some jumbo phages (genomes > 200 kb) establish complex subcellular organization within their host. Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak (University of California San Diego) and colleagues published