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The Catalan Institute for Water Research, Spain is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on the reclaimONEwater project, which focuses on two main topics: (i) the fate of antibiotic resistance genes in physico-chemical treatment; (ii) t

Phages for Global Health is planning to deliver hands-on phage workshops in Africa and Asia again, with a new curriculum that incorporates the best parts of the virtual teaching from the past year into an updated workshop curriculum with 2

The Africa Phage Forum will be hosting a webinar on December 6th, 2022 at 3:00 PM East Africa Time (EAT) or 12 PM GMT. The webinar, titled 'Safety Evaluation of Phages Infecting Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae for Therapy in Low-

The FDA approved Rebyota, the first fecal microbiota product, for the prevention of recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in individuals 18 years of age and older. Rebyota is administered rectally as a single dose and is pr

Innovate UK KTN has launched the Phage Innovation Network to drive innovation in the regulation and development of phage technologies for applications across multiple sectors, ensuring the UK maintains its strong stance on tackling antimicr

In a new paper in Viruses, Fedor Zurabov (MicroMir, Russia) and colleagues report that phage cocktails were safely administered to thirty patients after COVID-19.

In a new paper in Viruses, Maik Wolfram-Schauerte and colleagues (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology) apply transcriptomics and proteomics to characterize the temporal patterns of transcription and protein synthesis during T4

Panagiotis Zagaliotis (Weill Cornell Medicine New York) and colleagues published a new review in Pathogens and Immunity on the therapeutic phages for Gram-negative bacterial infections in animals and humans.

The 3rd International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance (ICBRAR – 2022) will be held on 26 & 27 November 2022 at Karnatak University Dharwad in India.

This week, Adam Yang of Lake Forest Academy explores secondary bacterial infections behind COVID-19 deaths, and discusses how phage therapy may be used as a solution. ## Summary While most people solely blame the physiological damage and t

Eligo Bioscience just announced the issuance by the US Patent and Trademark Office of the first patent in a wide family covering genetic engineering of Cutibacterium acnes to support therapeutic interventions in multiple serious skin disord

In this opinion piece for USA Today, Mallory Smith's mother, Diane Shader Smith, describes her daughter's preventable death from a drug resistant infection, and reflects on the opportunity that currently exists for US Congress to pass the P

In a new paper in eLife, Amelia McKitterick (Harvard University) and colleagues used bacteriophages Cog and CL31 to discover host factors important for phage infection of Corynebacterium glutamicum. They identified an important role for myc

Matthew Johnson (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues have developed a computational tool to broadly identify anti-phage systems, which they applied to Pseudomonas aeruginosa genomes.

Oliver Charity (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Genomics on how increased phage resistance through lysogenic conversion accompanies emergence of a Salmonella Typhimurium pandemic strain.

The University of Melbourne and the Berlin University Alliance are offering a joint PhD opportunity to work on bacteriophage therapy for antibiotic resistance.

The University of Sydney is looking for a postdoctoral research associate to help with their bacteriophage research. The successful candidate will have experience in handling phages and bacteria, and be able to perform laboratory operations

Prof. José R Penadés' research group at Imperial College London is hiring a Research Associate to investigate whether lateral transduction, the most powerful mode of transduction described to date, is widespread in nature.

Postdoc position in the Aylward lab to study the evolution and ecology of large DNA viruses (mainly giant viruses). Exciting projects focusing on DNA viruses of protists – both bioinformatics and culture-based.

The University of Helsinki is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on developing computational tools for analyzing microbiome data.