Research context
- 2024-11-13: coauthored “The Transcriptional Program of Staphylococcus aureus Phage K Is Affected by a Host rpoC Mutation That Confers Phage K Resistance”. [2] [3] [4]
Rohit Kongari, PhD
FDA; Stibitz LabI am a Phage Biologist at heart with a strong technical background in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Phage Genomics, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. I worked on the role of phage spanins in host lysis for my PhD under the guidance of Dr. Ryland Young at Texas A&M University. I am currently working on understanding the host-phage interactions between Staphylococcus aureus and phage K towards use in phage therapy applications.
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- Phage therapy: a doctor-patient experienceIn our PHAVES series this summer, Dr. Gina Suh, an infectious disease physician at the Mayo Clinic, and John Haverty, a phage therapy patient, spoke about phage therapy from a doctor's and patient's perspective. Here’s the recording, along…
- PHANOTATE: Gene finding in phagesFor the 2nd webinar of the Phage Bioinformatics Webinar Series jointly organized by IBRC and Phage Directory, we hosted Katelyn McNair, a research scholar at the University of California, Irvine and San Diego State University. This week, we…
- How to analyze your phage genomes, and stories from a multi-decade phage career: triple webinar recap issue!This week, we (co-)hosted three webinars: Africa Phage Forum #2 with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, the first event of a new IBRC Phage Bioinformatics Series with Deborah Jacobs-Sera, and PHAVES #12 with Dr. Betty Kutter. Here are the…
- Bringing phage susceptibility testing to IndiaPranav and Apurva Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage Therapy, recently set up a new framework that allows patients in India to get phage susceptibility testing done locally. We sat down with Pranav and Apurva to learn more about what this…
- A phage biologist's path from academia to industry and back — an interview with Dr. Ben BurrowesFor this week's feature article, Dr. Rohit Kongari interviewed Dr. Ben Burrowes, Senior Scientist at the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M University, about his path from phage PhD to industry scientist, to running his own…
- High-throughput genetic tools for phage biology: An interview with Dr. Vivek MutalikThis week, Dr. Rohit Kongari interviewed Dr. Vivek Mutalik of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory about his journey to become a phage researcher, and how he's using his engineering background and penchant to develop tools to answer…
- C&T Round Up for June 2020This week, we're rounding up an extra helping of June 2020's phage news and research.
- C&T Round Up for May 2020Continuing the new, once-monthly Capsid & Tail format we started in April, this week we're rounding up an extra helping of May 2020's phage news.
- The connection between alginate regulation and anti-CRISPR: Q&A with Dr. Adair BorgesThis week, Capsid & Tail's volunteer editor Dr. Rohit Kongari talks to UCSF's Dr. Adair Borges about the unexpected connection she's uncovered between phage anti-CRISPRs and the Pseudomonas alginate pathway.
- 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…
