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- Clinical phage therapy, phages for plant pathogens & phage bioinformatics: A triple webinar recap issue!This week, we've got highlights and recordings for 3 webinars we hosted this month: An interview with Dr. Randy Fish on clinical phage therapy for diabetic foot wounds, a talk by Dr. Clara Torres-Barceló on plant pathogen phage research,…
- Phage cocktail-based COVID-19 vaccine may have potential for much longer-term efficacyThis week, we're featuring an opinion piece by Dr. Mert Selimoglu (Pakmaya, Turkey) on phage-based COVID vaccines, and the opportunity he sees for using a phage library/cocktail approach to make more effective vaccines.
- How to respond when someone asks you for phage therapyAre you getting phage therapy requests from the public, and wondering how to respond? We've put together a guide + resources you can use (short version: send them our way)!
Bonus: we've included resources for physicians too, including how…
- PHANOTATE: Gene finding in phagesFor the 2nd webinar of the Phage Bioinformatics Webinar Series jointly organized by IBRC and Phage Directory, we hosted Katelyn McNair, a research scholar at the University of California, Irvine and San Diego State University. This week, we…
- C&T Round Up for March 2021This week, we're highlighting the three feature articles we published in March: a quick dive into phage and diabetic foot ulcers, a recap of the Phage Futures conference last month, and a recap of Jon Iredell's PHAVES seminar this month on…
- Phage therapy: The Australian experienceEarlier this month we hosted PHAVES #13, a talk by Prof. Jonathan Iredell, who shared his group's experience with phage therapy at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. Here's the recording, along with a recap by…
- Phage Futures Congress 2021: Meeting RecapWe attended Kisaco Research's Phage Futures Congress 2021 at the end of February, and now present our recap of the event. We hope to provide a window into what you missed, and/or a refresher if you were there!
- Quick Dive: Diabetic foot ulcers and phage therapyToday we're doing a quick dive into diabetic foot ulcers and phages. What's the problem, what are some ways phages have been used to date, and what's the current status of clinical trials?
- C&T Round Up for February 2021This week, we're highlighting the four feature articles we published in February: an interview with Richard Alm of CARB-X, part two of our State of Phage survey results, and a recap of the three phage events we hosted last week, written by…
- How to analyze your phage genomes, and stories from a multi-decade phage career: triple webinar recap issue!This week, we (co-)hosted three webinars: Africa Phage Forum #2 with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, the first event of a new IBRC Phage Bioinformatics Series with Deborah Jacobs-Sera, and PHAVES #12 with Dr. Betty Kutter. Here are the…
- State of Phage #2: A wide diversity of strainsWe're compiling the results of our State of Phage 2020 Survey, and we're excited to show you a second snapshot of the findings! Today we're focusing on strain collections; which bacterial species are phage labs collecting, how many do they…
- Funding phage development — a Q&A with CARB-X's Richard AlmThis week, we bring you an interview with Dr. Richard Alm, Alliance Director at CARB-X, a major current funder of new antimicrobials, including phage! Richard shares how he sees phages fitting into the clinical landscape, and shares his…
- C&T Round Up for January 2021This week, we're highlighting the four feature articles we published in January: Phage Directory's 2021 outlook, a guest blog post, an interview, and a first look at our State of Phage survey results! Enjoy!
- State of Phage #1: A wide diversity of backgrounds & phage experienceIt's been almost three months since we launched our State of Phage 2020 Survey! We're excited to show you a snapshot of the data coming in. Today we're focusing on who responded to the survey: where are they from, what's their career stage,…
- Enough phage for a farm: How Proteon Pharmaceuticals manufactures phages for livestock farmingFor this week's feature article, we interviewed Dr. Arkadiusz Wojtasik, a Production Director at Proteon Pharmaceuticals, about how his team uses the Cellexus CellMaker to produce phage for livestock farming.
- A fresh look at last century's phagesThe NCTC in England has freshly re-characterized 100 phages originally collected for bacterial typing in the 1950s-1990s. If you want your phages to last as long as these, this is a great place to deposit!
- 2021: Empowering the phage communityHello 2021!! This year, we're focusing on empowering the phage community with the knowledge and tools it needs to overcome phage research challenges & help others do the same.
- Looking back on the year 2020For our last issue of 2020, we're reflecting back on Phage Directory's 2020 progress, and the incredible collaborators who have made it possible. We're really proud of the ways we've been able to connect and work with the phage community…
- Bringing phage susceptibility testing to IndiaPranav and Apurva Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage Therapy, recently set up a new framework that allows patients in India to get phage susceptibility testing done locally. We sat down with Pranav and Apurva to learn more about what this…
- C&T Round Up for November 2020This week, we're highlighting the four feature articles we published in November: two interviews, a guest blog post, and a recap of the month's PHAVES event!
