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A Science paper by Samuel J. Hobbs and Philip J. Kranzusch reports that phage prohead protease activity activates the CD-NTase enzymes of bacterial CBASS defence: the authors reconstitute CBASS recognition of phage T4 in vitro, identify cle

A Nature Microbiology study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley and Penn State presents a phylogeny-agnostic machine-learning framework that predicts strain-level phage–host interactions across diverse bacterial genera f

A Nature Microbiology study from ETH Zürich, University Hospital Basel, the University of Basel and the University of Lausanne presents HIDEN-SEQ (hidden Acr-enabled transposon-insertion sequencing), which systematically links viral genes t

Phage Tn-seq is a transposon-based approach to studying phage gene essentiality and engineering. Nature Microbiology

Ayesha Umair’s first primary research preprint explores suppressing phage induction. Farncombe Phage / Hynes Lab

McMaster University researchers report in PNAS that several broader-spectrum phages share particular forms of structural diversity in their tail fibres, and that the pattern held across the phages tested in Lori Burrows’ lab and dozens of s

The University of Santo Tomas BEATS delegation presented four studies—one oral presentation and three posters—at Phages 2026 in Oxford on September 1–2. The work covered bacteriophages, microbial ecology and antimicrobial resistance. Univer

Engineered non-pathogenic E. coli producing lytic phages protected mice against Salmonella infection in a preclinical proof-of-concept study. Nature Microbiology

The University of Utah's Round Laboratory (Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City) is recruiting a full-time postdoctoral research associate to lead an independent project in one of two directions: early-life microbiota–immune interactio

Professor Yuping Li of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has received a European Research Council Starting Grant, funded with 1.5 million euros over five years, to study how bacteria detect and defend themselves against jumbophages, gian

Full-time Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Yolanda Huang’s lab at the University at Buffalo. Potential projects include studying antimicrobial stress tolerance, carbon metabolic pathways and genetic determinants underlying bacteria-phage inter

Bignaud, Lamy-Besnier, Koszul, Debarbieux, Marbouty and colleagues followed the 3D organization of the virulent phage PAK_P3 genome during infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The phage genome rapidly decondenses into a specific 3D organiza

EMBL Heidelberg researchers report in Nature that the kinase of phage T7 (T7K) causes almost every bacterial protein to be phosphorylated, at least in part of its pool, within minutes of infection, preferentially targeting DNA-binding prote

A model infers differences between individual phage infections from population-level measurements, checked against single-cell experiments in a marine phage–cyanobacterium system. University of Maryland — Jennifer Holland

The Silveira Lab is searching for a Postdoctoral Associate to investigate how bacteriophages modulate geochemical biomarkers in green and purple sulfur bacteria. The NASA-funded project combines field experiments and bioinformatic analyses.

Judith Sar discusses the regulation of E. coli F anti-phage defense genes during T5 infection in a Phages.fr talk hosted on Canal-U. Phages.fr on Canal-U

A Nature Communications Review by Sam P. B. van Beljouw and Li Yuping (Biozentrum, University of Basel) on jumbo bacteriophages, whose double-stranded DNA genomes exceed 200 kb. It covers their diversity, evolutionary origins, distinctive m

A meta-analysis of 12 infant cohorts across 8 countries (1,893 samples from 999 infants) models gut virome development over the first three years of life. Viral richness rose significantly over the first eight months alongside a loss of com

Cui and colleagues report in Science Advances that Acinetobacter baumannii makes 2′,3′-cyclic nucleotide monophosphates (2′,3′-cNMPs) with the ribonuclease RnaA and senses them through the receptor protein CRPAb, which affects the interacti

A high-throughput platform identified gut phages that adhere to epithelial layers and the immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domain proteins that mediate it: displayed on a non-adherent phage, they confer epithelial binding and internalization in vit