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When's the last time you sequenced the phages in your lab? Have you ever, or are you relying on what someone said they were? You might be like 12/13 phage labs and have secret mixtures masquerading as pure phages. You should sequence your p

On Nov 19-20, the International Alliance for Biological Standardization (Amsterdam, Netherlands) is hosting a virtual scientific workshop about the veterinary use of phages, specifically looking at quality, safety and efficacy. Speakers fro

For this month, we found some super interesting phage papers, heard about phage-vectored vaccine production, and more! Hey everyone, Summer is finally here! But as you know, Jess and I moved to San Francisco, and “summer” is mostly indisti

This week we're featuring Michael Shamash's reflections on a couple of noteworthy topics covered at this year's Hanson Wade phage summit. Michael is a McGill University PhD student by day / awesome Phage Directory volunteer by night — thank

This week, Prof. Urmi Bajpai shares insights (and recordings!) from a phage therapy clinician webinar series she hosted recently, which featured Gina Suh, Chip Schooley, Jon Iredell, Gopal Nath, and Mzia Kutadeladze. At the end of 2023, the

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, Atif Khan, a core contributor for Capsid & Tail, tells us a bit about the history of phage work in India, and invites us to join him at the ICBRAR 2023, an upcoming phage conference in Chennai. Both Jess and I will be speaking vi

How do you design a system that can share data across phage labs and biobanks? But also track where a phage came from and where a phage went? And along the way let each lab selectively pitch in their lab data? We'll get into some higher lev

This week, Jan starts to apply ideas from the previous Data series to the world of biology work and biology data. Previously in the Data series, I touched on how to think about data and how to work with both tabular data (spreadsheets) and

This week, we look at some highlights from a white paper that Phage Australia published as a response to the UK Parliament Inquiry on phage therapy. ## Summary of The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages – UK Parliament Inquiry 2023 R

This week, we're republishing an article Dr. Jon Iredell and Jessica Sacher wrote for GARDP Revive, the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership. This Viewpoint was originally published on the REVIVE website revive.gardp.org, an

Well hello there, 2023! We’ve made great strides in the past year, gotten our hands wet in the lab (Jessica at least 😉), built data systems, and even delivered phages for patients. This year we aim to do a whole lot more of that! This week

Happy December, everyone. I hope you've all enjoyed your Thanksgiving! Jessica and I took a short break in New Zealand and it was sublime. This past month, we featured an article by Adam Yang that explored COVID-19 and phages. We also featu

This week, Ruby CY Lin of Phage Australia dives further into commercialization pathways and opportunities for Phage Australia, and the phage industry as a whole. Welcome back to the third installment of the Sustainable Phage Therapy serie

This week Jan Zheng explores a few design decisions and considerations behind building a system for collecting data from every part of the phage therapy pipeline. For phage therapy to be efficient, cost-effective, and reliable at scale, eve

This week, Kyle Jackson tackles phage manufacturing. He first enlightens us on how phages have historically been produced and preserved. Then, through a chat with Frenk Smrekar and Barbara Hubad, we learn how JAFRAL helps companies and univ

The Phage Australia network recently shipped a purified phage to collaborators across the country, and had everyone titre it and report back. Stephanie Lynch, who spearheaded this effort, tells us what was done and what the team learned. Be

Now that we’ve covered tracking phage metadata and building identities for our phages, it’s time to consider how our phages fit into our biobanks. This week in Capsid and Tail, Jan Zheng explains his thinking on how to organize phage bioban

What's the state of phage commercialization? Longtime Phage Directory volunteers Sheetal Patpatia and Aël Hardy, who attended the last Phage Futures event, report on their key takeaways. The fourth annual Phage Futures Congress, hosted by K

In our July PHAVES series, Dr. Ameneh Khatami, a paediatric infectious disease physician and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, spoke about phage therapy for difficult to treat infections in children. Here’s the recording, along w