Capsid & Tail
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- ChatGPT tips for lab workThis week, we get to explore and share some ideas about how to (responsibly) use ChatGPT for lab work!
- Evergreen 2023: Looking BackThis 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…
- Southeast Asia Hands-on Phage Workshop, by Phages for Global HealthThis week, we have a special guest post by Donna May Papa, who writes about the Southeast Asia Hands-on Phage Workshop run by Tobi Nagel over at Phages for Global Health!
- C&T Round Up for September 2023!This month we heard about the ICBRAR phage conference in India, got an excerpt from The Good Virus by Tom Ireland, had a look behind the scenes of a Swiss team battling UTIs with engineered phages, and learned about speeding up the phage…
- Making our phage therapy process more efficientThis week Jessica Sacher shares ways the Phage Australia lab team has been improving efficiency of its phage therapy system, such as dividing up work, managing expectations, overcommunicating with clinical teams, and setting up solid lab…
- Urine Good Hands: Battling UTIs with Engineered PhagesThis week, we have an amazing guest article from Matthew Dunne and the Loessner Lab at ETH Zurich about their phage-based diagnostic tool and engineered phage work.
- The Good Virus: A book about phages by Tom IrelandThis week we're featuring an excerpt from a new book about phages, called The Good Virus.
- Unlocking the Power of Bacteriophages: Join Us at ICBRAR-2023This 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…
- Evergreen 2023 Schedule & Lineup!Hi everyone! Evergreen is in TWO DAYS! We’re doing a lot of work preparing for the 25th Evergreen Phage Meeting, and it’s been a whirlwind. There’s a lot we’ve done, and there’s a lot left to do for before, during, and after the meeting.…
- C&T Round Up for July 2023!This month, we heard about PHIOGEN, a new phage startup, about how the phage therapy system works at Phage Australia, and about a biobank data platform we're building at Phage Australia.
- The Missing Middle Ground of Phage Therapy: Effective Phage Therapeutics that Bridge Economy, Regulation, and Unprecedented FunctionalityThis week Amanda Burkardt, CEO of the new phage therapy company, PHIOGEN (a spinoff of Baylor College of Medicine and based on the innovations of TAILOR Labs) shares their plans for the company.
- Proof & Provenance: A biobank data platform for coordinating and sharing phages and resultsHow 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…
- How our phage therapy system works at Phage AustraliaAt Phage Australia, we're scaling up personalized phage therapy. Jessica Sacher shares an overview of the process, to assist other centers in navigating the challenges of running a successful phage therapy (or other bio-based) service.
- C&T Round Up for June 2023!This month, we really put the CAPS lock in Capsid: from ORACLE to a CARB-X article on SNIPR, to AKTA and DBs, we really capitalized on many deep topics.
- Working with data in biologyThis week, Jan starts to apply ideas from the previous Data series to the world of biology work and biology data.
- Getting our AKTA-gether: Using the AKTA Flux to purify phages for patientsThis week I’m excited to share how I’ve been using the AKTA Flux system to purify phages for patients. What used to be overwhelming now feels pretty dreamy. Worth considering for any phage lab making patient-ready preps!
- ORACLE: A great tool for generating many variants of phagesThis week we have a guest post from Dylan Woolsey, a University of Georgia undergraduate student, who introduces us to ORACLE, a tool for generating phage variants.
- CRISPR phages target E. coli with sharpshooter precisionThis week we bring you a guest post from CARB-X, which covers how SNIPR Biome uses CRISPR phages to target E. coli with sharpshooter precision.
- C&T Round Up for May 2023!This month, we covered a new phage podcast, launched the Evergreen Phage Meeting sign up site, and talked about using databases for phage work!
- Working with DatabasesThis week, Jan continues his casual "Data Series" of posts to show how phage labs can start using relational databases today, with Airtable.
