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Dear Phage Family, I have trouble isolating Listeria phages from environmental samples. I used the method from the article named 'Silage Collected from Dairy Farms Harbors an Abundance of Listeriaphages with Considerable Host Range and Gen

The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are hosting a joint workshop on bacteriophage therapy on October 25, 2022

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has begun a clinical trial for phage therapy in adults with cystic fibrosis, under the leadership of IPATH. The trial plans to enroll 72 participants across 16 cystic fibrosi

Phagos, a French phage manufacturing company, announced the closing of a €2.4 million Seed investment round co-led by Demeter (Paris) and Hoxton Ventures (London).

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) has announced that the Defense Health Agency (DHA) has awarded an additional $5 million to support clinical development of APT’s adaptive bacteriophage therapy in treatment of diabetic foot osteomyelitis (D

SpyPhage: A Cell-Free TXTL Platform for Rapid Engineering of Targeted Phage Therapies, by Sahan B. W. Liyanagedera and colleagues, proposes the SpyPhage system where a “scaffold” bacteriophage is engineered to incorporate a SpyTag moiety on

In this Nature Communications paper, Brieuc Van Nieuwenhuyse (Université Catholique de Louvain) and colleagues report the story of a toddler who suffered from extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis after liver transplantat

The Central European Institute of Technology at Masaryk University is seeking a post-doctoral scientist to join the Laboratory of Structural Virology. The successful candidate will use cryo-electron microscopy and tomography to determine th

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

This week, we highlight the feature articles we published in September! Learn about main themes from Phage Futures Europe 2022, MetaPhage: a new pipeline for turning raw reads into phage insights, and how to set up a basic phage QC system i

PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research has published a special issue on Phage/Host Combat: Phage Strategies for Taking Over the Host and Host Strategies for Defense. Read and share the special issue with free access through October 18,

In a new paper in Molecular Ecology, Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues review current approaches to detect nucleotide modifications, including hardware and software, and look onward to future applications, espe

Paweł Działak (AGH University of Science and Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in the journal Biogeosciences entitled Do bacterial viruses affect framboid-like mineral formation?

Bennett J. Davenport et al. published a new paper in npj Vaccines entitled Phage-like particle vaccines are highly immunogenic and protect against pathogenic coronavirus infection and disease.

In a new paper in International Journal of Food Microbiology, Amel Chaïb (University of Bordeaux) and colleagues review the current knowledge about bacteriophages of Oenococcus oeni and their possible impacts on the trajectory of the microb

In this Nature Microbiology paper, Christopher N. Vassallo and colleagues used an experimental selection scheme agnostic to genomic context to identify phage defence systems in 71 diverse E. coli strains. They found 21 conserved defence sys

Postdoc: The University of Copenhagen is looking for a postdoc to work on developing novel antibacterials based on phage enzymes and components as a part of the project INNOLYSIN funded by The Open Lab Foundation.

PhD candidate: Utrecht University (NL) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE) are looking for a Joint PhD candidate to study the complex evolution of bacteriophage genomes in a unique joint PhD project.

Postdoc: The Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (LCB) at Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France is hiring a postdoc to adapt biosensor technologies to build bacteriophage-based biosensors to detect Streptococcus agalactiae.

Genome Startup Day Fall 2022: Bacteria Breakthroughs is a virtual event on October 5th, 2:00-3:00 pm PST that will feature a fireside chat with John Eisen, PhD, UC Davis professor and renowned genomics and microbiology researcher, and Ivan