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This week we're diving into something we're pretty sure every researcher grapples with: how to read papers without your brain melting! Jess posted about this on LinkedIn and it blew up — tons of researchers shared their own how-to-read-pape

"This feels just like the early days of the HIV crisis. People are dying, you're not hearing about it. We need a group like ACT UP to bring this to the public. We're not going to get phage therapy until people start demanding we have it." "

What does discovering a phage really feel like? Stanford undergrad Aaryan Harshith takes us on an adventure through history and now—perfect for a Sunday morning with coffee! Note from Jess: This week I’m excited to cross-post an article ori

A decade of water damage left the floors warped — and that was just the beginning. This week, Dr. Silvia Würstle shares her new lab's journey transforming an abandoned space into a cutting-edge phage lab. Setting up a new laboratory is alwa

This year we moved from Sydney to San Francisco — what a year. Here's some reflections, things that went well, things that didn't, and some things we learned. Happy holidays to everyone! "Hi everyone, Thanks for making it this far — welcom

This week, California high school student Kate Kelly shares what she learned spending 30 days in the Bollyky group's phage microbiology and immunology lab at Stanford this summer. (Somehow she seems to have tried more techniques in a month

This week, we feature Bishoy Maher Zaki, a PhD researcher who transitioned from phage isolation to phage bioinformatics. He’s currently streamlining phage genome analysis tools for the research community — and is asking for help from the ph

This week, we hear from Gabor Apjok, who has responded to many of our Phage Alerts. Working out of his lab in Hungary, he has successfully isolated and supplied phages that have gone on to treat several patients around the world. Most resea

We’re excited to embark on another new chapter this year, this time in the San Francisco Bay Area! Here’s some reflections on the transition now that we’re stateside, what we’re thinking about these days, and a sneak peek into what’s in sto

This week we wrap up 2023 and reflect on our biggest surprises and proudest moments! Things are also changing in 2024... Hey everyone, Welcome to the last issue of 2023! What a whirlwind of a year it’s been – I feel like it was only yeste

This week, Libby Duignan tells us about her visit from the UK to Phage Australia, and how she'll be applying what she learned about phage manufacturing in her new role devising phage manufacturing systems in the UK. I reached out to Dr Jess

This week, we finally get to post the recap of Evergreen Phage Meeting! With a flurry of guest posts, we didn't even get to write about Evergreen until a couple of months after the event — but here's what went down, a picture gallery, and s

This week, we’re proud to open up registration for the Evergreen Phage Meeting. This year’s Evergreen phage meeting will be in-person (!), absolutely packed with science and activities (!!), and will be a celebration of both Betty’s lifetim

Want to hear Joana Azeredo talk about phage activity against biofilms? Or Martin Loessner speaking about L-forms and endolysins? How to set up an Appleman´s protocol with Ben Burrowes? This week a group of PhD students in the Azeredo Lab in

This month, we featured a new UK Phage Therapy initiative and wrote about lessons in scaling bio and how to think about data. Another month is behind us! This time, we’re posting this Roundup in the mountains of New Zealand! We’re really pr

This week, Jessica Sacher shares learnings from setting up a pipeline for phage production/purification/QC at Phage Australia, and using it to provide phage therapy for our first 3 patients in 2022! Biggest learning: the hardest part about

You may have heard people (especially on Twitter) talking about DeSci, or decentralized science. Today Jessica Sacher shares her experience diving into LabDAO, a new DeSci initiative enabling science through a lab space/experiment sharing n

For the first time since 2019 the yearly European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) took place in-person. Jessica Neubauer, MSc student and Phage Directory volunteer, was there to report on all phings phage!

With feedback from users, the Instill platform is evolving. This week Katharine Muscat, phage PhD student and volunteer Instill coordinator, shares how members have benefited from and contributed to Instill, and what they've learned from te

Phage Directory started because Jan (a 'tech person') saw how his skills could help fix inefficiencies in Jessica's field: phage biology. Now, more people like Jan are getting excited to focus on solving problems in science/biology/biotech