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- Why all phage researchers need to be in Australia this JulyThis week we've got an interview with Jeremy Barr on what to expect this year at the Viruses of Microbes conference in Cairns, Australia! From Great Barrier Reef, to crocodile jet ski stories, to special ways they're making the conference…
- C&T Round Up for April 2024!Round up time! This month we covered phages and neutrophils, reflected on Phage Directory and Phage Australia, and did our second 'Phage Picks' issue.
- Setting up systems to make phages available for allSix years ago, just as I was finishing up my microbiology PhD, I stumbled across an opportunity to help a patient. One patient turned into many, and what I used to think was 50 years away — using phages to treat infections — has become my…
- What do we know about phages and neutrophils?There's been a few studies lately on phages and neutrophils. Do they help each other? Do they get in each other's way? Who can keep track? This week we take a look at three phage-neutrophil papers and what they found.
- Our Phage Picks for April 2024!Here's the second rendition of our new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to.
- C&T Round Up for March 2024!Round up time! This month we did our first 'Phage Picks' issue, dove into how prophages impact fly sperm, shared insights and recordings from Urmi's webinar series with top phage therapy clinicians, and Elisabet More from PDB Biotech taught…
- An introduction to phage-based diagnosticsThis week, Dr. Elisabet More, Principal Scientist at PDB Biotech, shares how phages can be used as diagnostics, and how they use phages to detect M. tuberculosis hidden by the immune system.
- Advancing Phage Therapy: Insights from Leading CliniciansThis 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.
- How a prophage controls fly reproductionThis week we're highlighting a brand new paper out of the Bordenstein lab, out yesterday in Science, that unravels the mechanism by which prophage-encoded proteins control whether Drosophila flies reproduce or not.
- Our Phage Picks for March 2024!We're starting off the year by trying a new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to.
- We're back! Hello 2024!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…
- Year in Review 2023This week we wrap up 2023 and reflect on our biggest surprises and proudest moments! Things are also changing in 2024...
- S. aureus phage therapy: we need further researchThis week, we learn from David and Lorenzo from BioNTech (formerly PhagoMed) about their experience with phage inhibition of S. aureus phages by plasma and synovial fluid.
- Experimenting with REDCapThis week, we introduce a new mini-series about building experiments on REDCap, a tool used for collecting clinical patient data. In the first issue, we dive deep into building instruments with nested permutations.
- Lessons from viral vectors, CAR-T, & RNAPhage production has its quirks, but it’s not the only field trying to reliably manufacture a new biological entity. This week Jessica shares learnings from Australia’s annual bioprocessing conference about challenges other fields are…
- C&T Round Up for November 2023!Round up time! This month Jan released Open Phage Data Sheet (google sheet full of phage tools/links/resources, open to all to contribute!) and shared a walkthrough on using ChatGPT for data work. And Libby Duignan wrote about her recent…
- AI-Assisted Data EngineeringThis week, we share some examples and learnings from experimenting with data processing and extraction using OpenAI’s slew of new ChatGPT tools!
- Introducing the Open Phage Data SheetThis week we’re launching Open Phage, a public, editable spreadsheet of phage resources like grants, clinical trials, and bioinformatics/lab tools!
- Research visit to Phage Australia at the Westmead institute for Medical ResearchThis 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.
- C&T Round Up for October 2023!This month, we heard about the Southeast Asia phage workshop, a few tidbits from Evergreen, and a brief intro on using ChatGPT for lab work!
