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Dear ISVM Members, We are pleased to announce the results of our 2022 ISVM Executive Board election. Thank you to 292 of you who participated in the election of the new Board members. The New ISVM Board members for 2023-2024 are listed belo

Stephanie Lesage, Richard James and Francesca Hodges have spearheaded Phage-UK, which has >45 clinicians interested in phage therapy, who work in 15 different UK Hospital Trusts; with a Phage-UK Clinical Steering Group of 18 members. Their

Viruses Journal is now accepting nominations for their 2022 Early Career Investigator Award. The prize will be awarded to two early-career investigators demonstrating excellence in virology, and will include an invitation to speak at the Vi

Craig MacLean on Twitter: "Quick question: does anybody know of fluorescent dyes that can be used to stain phage? Want to measure ability of phage to adsorb to bacterial cells they cannot infect."

Micreos, a Dutch/Swiss biotech company, has secured its next funding round of €25 million in growth capital for clinical development of its endolysin technology platform, set to replace antibiotics in many areas.

Adi Millman et al. published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe entitled An expanded arsenal of immune systems that protect bacteria from phages. They report the discovery of 21 defense systems that protect bacteria from phages, based on co

In a new paper in mBio, Eugen Pfeifer and colleagues report that phage-plasmids commonly encode different and multiple types of resistance genes of high clinical importance, often in integrons.

In a new paper in Microbiology Spectrum, Aude Ferran (Université de Toulouse) and colleagues report that the combination of phages and antibiotics can prevent the selection of resistant bacteria.

Brendan J. O’Hara (Tufts University School of Medicine) and colleagues published a paper in PLOS Genetics entitled The Vibrio cholerae Seventh Pandemic Islands act in tandem to defend against a circulating phage.

Postdoc position: Phage biology in FDA study at University of Pittsburgh, AAD Lab in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. . 
The AAD Lab at the University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a 2-4 year post-doc position. The position is funded by the NIH. The obj

Postdoc position: Phage biology in FDA study at University of Pittsburgh, AAD Lab in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. . 
The AAD Lab at the University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a 2-4 year post-doc position. The position is funded by the NIH. The obj

This week, Ruby CY Lin of Phage Australia dives deep into commercialization pathways and opportunities for Phage Australia, and the phage industry as a whole. In Part One of this three-part series, she explains the importance of phage manu

Returning in-person for the first time since 2019, Phage Futures: USA is back — taking place November 16-17 in Boston, we’re bringing together 170+ leaders in the phage community to accelerate the translation of bacteriophage research into

The Eastbio consortium (Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the Scottish Agricultural College) has a PhD project to develop phage technology to target foodborne Escherichia coli O157 in packed foods.

The University of Leicester is hiring a lecturer in microbial and phage biology.

Berkeley Lab has a Postdoctoral Fellow opening to join the Mutalik Lab as part of the ENIGMA program. You will develop new technologies to study phage-host interactions, methods to engineer or evolve phages with specific traits, and manipul

Dr Evelien Adriaenssens' group at the Quadram Institute Bioscience is recruiting a student on a BBSRC-funded project which focuses on the interaction between phages, the Klebsiella capsule and biofilm formation, using transposon-directed in

The United Kingdom Health Security Agency is hiring a Scientist (Microbiology – Technology Development Group). This position is part of a collaborative team, working with academics and SMEs to develop novel antimicrobial therapies, includin

The Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) at The University of California, San Diego is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow or Project Scientist to help further their efforts to develop a collection of bacteriophages t