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C&T Round Up for April 2022!

Issue 173 | April 29, 2022
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This week, we highlight the features we published in April! Catch up on what happened at the last Phage Futures Europe, and learn how to organize your phage biobank data!

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C&T Round Up for April 2022!

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Jessica Sacher PhD
Phage microbiologist and co-founder of Phage Directory
Co-founderStaff Scientist
Bollyky Lab, Phage Directory, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Email [email protected]
Twitter @JessicaSacher
Website https://jess.bio
Skills

Phage characterization, Phage-host interactions, Phage Therapy, Molecular Biology, Phage manufacturing

I’m a co-founder of Phage Directory and have a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Alberta (I studied Campylobacter phage biology). For Phage Directory, I help physicians find phages for their patients, and I’m always trying to find new ways to help the phage field grow (especially through connecting people and highlighting awesome stuff I see happening in the field).

I spent 2022-2024 as a postdoc in Jon Iredell’s group at Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, helping get Phage Australia off the ground. I helped set up workflows for phage sourcing, biobanking, diagnostics, production, purification and QC of therapeutic phage batches, and helped build data collection systems to track everything we did. We treated more than a dozen patients in our first year, and I’m so proud of that!

As of Feb 2024, I joined the Bollyky lab at Stanford University as a Staff Scientist, where I’m focused on building a phage therapy center, with a specific focus on phage cocktail design, formulation and delivery. Step one — write a bunch of grants; step two — cook up some phage cocktails!

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Escherichia coli
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Staphylococcus aureus
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In this month’s Capsid & Tail Monthly Round Up issue, we’re highlighting the two feature articles we published in April. Be sure to check them out if you missed them, and let us know if you have thoughts, comments or questions! Reach us anytime by email or Slack!

C&T Throwback!

There’s lots of great phage stuff in the C&T archive! Check out this article on How coevolutionary phage training improves phage efficacy by Joshua Borin!

Thanks so much to Atif Khan and Stephanie Lynch for collecting and summarizing links to share for this week!

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Jessica Sacher PhD
Phage microbiologist and co-founder of Phage Directory
Co-founderStaff Scientist
Bollyky Lab, Phage Directory, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Email [email protected]
Twitter @JessicaSacher
Website https://jess.bio
Skills

Phage characterization, Phage-host interactions, Phage Therapy, Molecular Biology, Phage manufacturing

I’m a co-founder of Phage Directory and have a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Alberta (I studied Campylobacter phage biology). For Phage Directory, I help physicians find phages for their patients, and I’m always trying to find new ways to help the phage field grow (especially through connecting people and highlighting awesome stuff I see happening in the field).

I spent 2022-2024 as a postdoc in Jon Iredell’s group at Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, helping get Phage Australia off the ground. I helped set up workflows for phage sourcing, biobanking, diagnostics, production, purification and QC of therapeutic phage batches, and helped build data collection systems to track everything we did. We treated more than a dozen patients in our first year, and I’m so proud of that!

As of Feb 2024, I joined the Bollyky lab at Stanford University as a Staff Scientist, where I’m focused on building a phage therapy center, with a specific focus on phage cocktail design, formulation and delivery. Step one — write a bunch of grants; step two — cook up some phage cocktails!

Phage Hosts
Escherichia coli
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Staphylococcus aureus
Share: https://phage.directory/people#jessica-sacher
How to Cite
To cite this, please use:
Sacher, J. (2022). C&T Round Up for April 2022! Capsid & Tail, (173). Retrieved from https://phage.directory/capsid/round-up-april-2022
BibTeX citation:
@article{round-up-april-20222022,
  • journal = {Capsid & Tail},
  • number = {173},
  • publisher = {Phage Directory},
  • title = {C&T Round Up for April 2022!},
  • url = {https://phage.directory/capsid/round-up-april-2022},
  • author = {Sacher, Jessica},
  • date = {2022-04-29},
  • year = {2022},
  • month = {4},
  • day = {29},
}
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