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DBSCAN-SWA is a new tool for prophage detection, recently published as a preprint by Rui Gan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) and colleagues. Preprint | Github.

Katja Šuster (Valdoltra Orthopaedic Hospital, Slovenia) and colleagues published a new paper in The New Microbiologica describing their use of phage K to speed up Staphylococcus detection in prosthetic joint fluid.

Oriana Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing the isolation and characterization of 13 phages with the potential to control Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actini

The 2020 PhageAI preprint describes a genome-sequence classifier for lytic and lysogenic life cycles. It reports 98.90% validation accuracy and 97.18% average test accuracy, and describes access through a REST service and Python package. Ph

Phage Directory Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for PHAVES earlier this week, where Elyse Stachler talked about her research into combining phages with disinfectants. We had a great time meeting so many of you at the breakout sessi

Vitalis Phage Therapy This Sunday, Dr Vinod Kumar CS will share his expertise of 20yrs working w/ #Bacteriophage & #AMR on Ep. 8 of #AllAboutPhageTherapy! His recent studies include #PhageKinetics of #MRSA phages & #Phage as alternative to

Innovative Solutions Canada Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) has an open grant call for "Detection of food borne pathogenic bacteria using field deployable instruments". Any phage companies in Canada working on such things? Apply by July 2

Dr. Saima Aslam of IPATH in San Diego received funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to initiate and maintain a multicenter clinical cohort of cystic fibrosis patients and lung transplant recipients infected with Burkholderia cepacia

Not much is known about filamentous phages, which chronically infect their hosts and can dramatically affect host physiology, but their genomes are starting to be detected by the hundreds. Jason Shapiro and Catherine Putonti (Loyola Univers

Liang Li (Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems showing the critical impact of the novel prophage ϕSA169 on MRSA persistence in the bloodstream.

Yoon Hwang of the Naval Medical Research Unit in San Antonio received the Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award for his research into the development of a handheld device that uses phages to detect and identify

Studying phage lambda has brought countless insights to the phage field and beyond. In a new review, Jodi Brewster and Gökhan Tolun (University of Wollongong, Australia) go over key in vitro experiments from the last half-century of researc

Austen Terwilliger (TAILΦR Initiative, Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues have published a paper outlining the concept, structure, and process behind TAILΦR's method of addressing bacterial infections in vulnerable patients through

Interested in how phages could be useful in the COVID-19 battle? Here are a couple of opinions on this: one by Marcin Wojewodzic (Cancer Registry of Norway), published in PHAGE journal, and one by health and science journalist Helen Albert,

M. R. Madhav, a student at Vellore Institute of Technology in India, and one of our newest Phage Directory volunteers, has a phage blog called Phage Fanatic. Check it out!

International Bacteriophage Research Consortium International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC), created by Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), USA and Acharya Narendra Dev College (ANDC), University of Delhi, India is organizing

Phage Directory Our virtual event series, PHAVES, continues this coming Tuesday, July 7 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 5:00 PM Zurich (GMT+2). Dr. Elyse Stachler, postdoc at Eawag in Switzerland, will share her research into combining phages

Abiola Olaitan I am excited about moving to Canada and seeking research opportunities (academia or industry) in phage therapy in Canada. I am an early-career researcher with robust experience in bacterial antibiotic resistance and host-path

Gary Trubl Hey virus people! I would like to get a list of labs that have cultured soil viruses. If you are one or know one can you add to the list? Only the lab name & website are required. This resource would really help the community. RT

Vitalis Phage Therapy In case you missed it, Pranav Johri of Vitalis Phage Therapy interviewed Jean-Paul Pirnay of the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium today on All About Phage Therapy. Watch the recording here!