C&T Round Up for February!

Issue 165 | February 25, 2022

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This week, we highlight the features we published in Feb — learn about digital phagograms, phageSuisse and the recently held Bacteriophage Therapy Summit!

What’s New

Phage therapy protocol approved: Phage Australia, a network of phage researchers and clinicians, are excited to announce the approval of the STAMP phage therapy protocol. which regulates the process of phage therapy rather than a phage product specifically.

Paper: Phage banks as potential tools to rapidly and cost-effectively manage antimicrobial resistance in the developing world

Preprint: A five-fold expansion of the global RNA virome reveals multiple new clades of RNA bacteriophages

Paper: Rapid assessment of phage therapeutic suitability using an ensemble machine learning approach

Paper: Systematic analysis of putative phage‑phage interactions on minimum‑sized phage cocktails

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C&T Round Up for February!

Phage microbiologist and co-founder of Phage Directory

Co-founder

Phage Directory

Email [email protected]

Twitter @JessicaSacher

Website https://phage.ca

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!

In 2024, I’ll be starting a new (phage-y) chapter back in North America… stay tuned!

In this month’s Capsid & Tail Monthly Round Up issue, we’re highlighting the three feature articles we published in February. 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!

All good things come in fours: a sneak peek at the 4th annual Bacteriophage Therapy Summit, a look at the Bacteriophage Therapy Summit by Jessica Neubauer
Digital phagograms: how can we predict phage infectivity?, a guest post by Dimi Boeckaerts
phageSuisse: toward phage therapy in Switzerland, a recap of four recent phageSuisse webinars by Vera Neumeier

C&T Throwback!

There’s lots of great phage stuff in the C&T archive! Check out this article on Phage therapy in the human gut by Sabrina Green!

Thanks so much to Steph Lynch for finding and summarizing updates, jobs and community posts this week!

Phage microbiologist and co-founder of Phage Directory

Co-founder

Phage Directory

Email [email protected]

Twitter @JessicaSacher

Website https://phage.ca

Skills

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

In 2024, I’ll be starting a new (phage-y) chapter back in North America… stay tuned!

How to Cite

To cite this, please use:

Sacher, J. (2022). C&T Round Up for February! Capsid & Tail, (165). Retrieved from https://phage.directory/capsid/round-up-feb-2022

BibTeX citation:

@article{round-up-feb-20222022,

journal = {Capsid & Tail},
number = {165},
publisher = {Phage Directory},
title = {C&T Round Up for February!},
url = {https://phage.directory/capsid/round-up-feb-2022},
author = {Sacher, Jessica},
date = {2022-02-25},
year = {2022},
month = {2},
day = {25},

}

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