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Join us in congratulating Dr. Graham Hatfull, Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the pioneer behind SEA-PHAGES, for being elected as a 2020 member of the Am

Jeroen Wagemans (KU Leuven) and colleagues published a structural analysis of a jumbo avian pathogenic E. coli-targeting phage with an inner body rod within the capsid and an unusually hairy tail. Check out the paper, which examines the pha

Ward Deboutte (KU Leuven) and colleagues have published their work on the diversity of the honey-bee phageome in PNAS. This study not only sheds light on the bee microbiome, but highlights the potential consequences of phage-host interactio

Steffanie Strathdee, IPATH, UCSD Do you live on a farm? IPATH is finally re-opening after our lab was swamped by COVID19. We're looking for volunteers to send samples from animal farms for phage hunts. Email IPATH@ucsd.edu for instructions

Phages went to space, and now they're back! In a blog post, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific describe their study of phage-host interactions and evolution in microgravity (using the spaceflight env

Normally presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, the 2020 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize will still be awarded this year. The award acknowledges young scientists with skill, insight, rigor, and dedication to scien

Phage Directory Last week, we sent an urgent alert for phages on behalf of a patient in Finland with ESBL E. coli. The phage hunt was initiated by Mikael Skurnik and his lab at the University of Helsinki (read a nice profile on the Skurnik

OmniLytics, a US biotech company developing phage-based products for crops (a subsidiary of PhageLux AgriHealth) has entered a new partnership with DCM, one of Europe's leading plant care companies. DCM will sell Omnilytics' phage products

Want to mine prophage regions from large metagenomic datasets? Phigaro is a command-line application created by Elizaveta Starikova (Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Russia) and colleagues. It detects prop

Jameel Ahmad Khan, PhD, Head R&D (IVD-Division), Trivitron Healthcare I am working on a COVID-19 RNA isolation kit. We are observing huge lab to lab variations in RNA yield among Pathology labs. Therefore, I am planning to use RNA phage Par

A special issue of the journal Viruses dedicated to "Phage-Bacteria Interplay in Health and Disease" is inviting manuscripts reporting or reviewing current findings on the role of phages in the microbiome, from the context of health and dis

Ningyun Zhou (University of Oklahoma) and colleagues have developed a new phage-based platform that can rapidly catalyze the growth of neural cells. Paper | Press release, with explainer video.

Hi, My name is Sunil Nawaz. I have M.phil in Microbiology degree with published research work. I have experience in blog writing, science writing, Academic teaching and Pharmaceutical Microbiology Lab. I am looking for a Job in a research g

Due to the continued uncertainty caused by COVID-19, the 2020 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting has been cancelled. The meeting will be held next year, August 9-13, 2021 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Beatriz Osuna (UCSF) and colleagues published two new papers this week in Cell Host & Microbe: one on how Listeria phages protect their lysogenic genomes by inducing Cas9 degradation and the other detailing how a bifunctional Listeria phage

Hi I'm Prathaban Munisamy (Ph.D., Microbiology), working as Assistant Professor, in a deemed University in Tamilnadu, India. Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India, has called India-Portugal joint proposal of research. I would li

Xiaolin Xiong (Wuhan University, China) and colleagues published their work on an unusual phosphorothioation-sensing bacterial defense system with broad anti-phage activities in Nature Microbiology.

A new study by Demeng Tan (Fudan University, China), Mads Frederik Hansen (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) and colleagues have shown that a Vibrio anguillarum prophage is controlled by quorum sensing and stimulat

Beatriz Osuna (UCSF) and colleagues published two new papers this week in Cell Host & Microbe: one on how Listeria phages protect their lysogenic genomes by inducing Cas9 degradation and the other detailing how a bifunctional Listeria phage

Derek Cerchione and colleagues at Editas Medicine in Cambridge have developed a new M13 phage-based directed-evolution strategy and a mutagenesis method called SMOOT to engineer Cas9 nuclease activity. They report the isolation of a Cas9 mu