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Jessica Sacher, PhD

Phage Directory (Co-founder); Stanford University (Staff Scientist); Bollyky Lab

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 2024, I joined the Bollyky lab at Stanford University as a Staff Scientist, where I'm focused on building the Stanford Center for Phage Pharmaceuticals. The ‘Phage Pharm’ will be a home for innovative phage pharmacodynamics and phage-immune interactions research, with a focus on translating findings directly to the bedside and back to the bench.

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  1. Creating a searchable directory of phagesWe're excited to share a sneak-peek into our progress toward creating a global phage catalogue and search tool!74Jan Zheng, Jessica Sacher
  2. C&T Round Up for April 2020It's a challenge to pick from so many exciting phage-related developments each week, and our backlog is overflowing! So in place of a Feature Article, we're dedicating this week's issue to sharing an extra helping of phage news and articles…73Jessica Sacher, Rohit Kongari
  3. Phage Futures Congress 2020: Meeting RecapThe last time we were at a conference, it was Phage Futures Congress 2020 (Feb 5-6, 2020). Since we're all working from home, it's a perfect time to reflect back on the phage development community's recent progress.70Jessica Sacher, Jan Zheng
  4. Phages to treat secondary bacterial infections in COVID-19 patients?Can phages help COVID patients? We've been hearing chatter about this subject from the phage community over the last few days, so we've decided to start the conversation here and keep it going. What, if anything, can the phage community do…69Jessica Sacher, Kathryn Kauffman
  5. Apply for Phage Directory-VoM Writing Awards!Attention student and postdoctoral phage biologists planning to attend Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this year! Phage Directory will be sponsoring two cash awards in collaboration with the Viruses of Microbes organizing committee,…68Jessica Sacher, Jan Zheng
  6. How to find phages for your researchNeed phages for your research? This week, we bring you a guide on how to use Phage Directory to find the phages you need.65Jessica Sacher
  7. Phage manufacturing challenges and how academic-commercial collaboration can helpThis week, we bring you an interview with Danish Malik, Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University. He tells us about current challenges with phage manufacturing, including what phage companies need to think about, and how…61Jessica Sacher, Danish Malik
  8. How can phage companies protect their intellectual property?This week, we bring you an interview with Michele Wales, founder of the legal firm InHouse Patent Counsel. She tells us about the unique challenges phage companies face in protecting their IP, and why she's optimistic about what's to come.60Jessica Sacher
  9. Phage Futures Europe 2019: Meeting RecapLast Fall, we attended the Phage Futures Europe conference, which covered phage commercialization with a focus on how European regulators are thinking about phage therapy. This week, we present our full recap of that event, just in time to…59Jessica Sacher
  10. Bringing software to the phage fieldHappy New Year, phage enthusiasts! This week, we share how we plan to help the phage research community systematize and standardize phage data collection in 2020.58Jessica Sacher
  11. Constructing phage libraries for therapyThis week, we're highlighting a paper published by Shelley Gibson and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. They've constructed and characterized phage libraries against three pathogens, and…53Jessica Sacher
  12. The state of antibiotic resistance in the US and CanadaThis week, we provide an overview of two major new antibiotic resistance reports: one from the US (CDC) and one from Canada. We provide a few takeaways, briefly compare the reports, and hope to inspire you to dive in to learn more about the…52Jessica Sacher
  13. Year One of Capsid & TailWe’ve been publishing Capsid & Tail for a year now, and while some of you have been here since the early days, we know many of you have found us relatively recently. So this week, we’ve gone through our archive to dig up some of our…49Jessica Sacher
  14. Phages for musculoskeletal infectionsThis week we highlight a recent paper on using phage therapy to treat severe musculoskeletal infections (osteomyelitis). A multidisciplinary group in Belgium made up of surgeons, infectious disease physicians, pharmacists, microbiologists…48Jessica Sacher
  15. The Nagoya Protocol and phages: an introductionYou may have heard of the Nagoya Protocol in the context of isolating or sharing phages or bacteria. But what is the Nagoya Protocol, and how does it apply to phage research and development? This week, we've put together a primer to help…47Jessica Sacher
  16. Using Galaxy for phage genome annotationThis week, we're covering an introductory phage genome annotation workshop that was taught at the 2019 Evergreen Phage Conference. The workshop, Phage Genomics with Galaxy and Apollo, was taught by Jason Gill, a professor at the Center for…46Jessica Sacher
  17. Evergreen Phage 2019: Meeting RecapHello phage people! It’s been about a month since Evergreen, and we’re ready with our wrap-up post. We’ve covered highlights, themes, and what really excited us about the conference!44Jessica Sacher
  18. Feeding phages to chickens: one of the first farm trialsHow close are we to being able to treat chickens with phages? This week, we cover a recent study published by Viviana Clavijo and colleagues from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. They tested a 6-phage cocktail on chickens in a…43Jessica Sacher
  19. Phage Directory expands! What’s changing and what’s staying the sameThis week is a special, exciting week for Phage Directory! We’ve got big news pertaining to funding, new directions, and a website makeover! And to balance out all the NEW, our feature article this week focuses on something that’s staying…38Jessica Sacher
  20. The Declaration of Helsinki and Phage TherapyWhen compassionate phage therapy case reports are described in published works, the Declaration of Helsinki often gets mentioned. But where did this declaration come from, why is it referenced so often, and how does it apply to phage…32Jessica Sacher

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