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Soumyananda Chakraborti (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and collaborators from Poland, UK and Canada report the characterization of NinH, encoded by bacteriophage lambda. NinH is the first example of a phage mimic of the bacterial Nucleoi

Andrea Rocker (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a study on how Klebsiella pneumoniae outer membrane porins affect its permeability to antibiotics. They suggest caution be taken when targeting this species and other car

Maryn McKenna wrote a new Wired piece on how the COVID crisis may worsen the AMR crisis. Within it, she links to a useful compendium of literature on secondary infections and AMR in the context of COVID-19, which was compiled by two researc

Here's a nice article on the 'age of bacteriophage' written by undergraduate students Muskan Gupta and Rohit Gokhale at Acharya Narendra Dev College in New Delhi. Included is some excellent phage art! This was written as part of an online t

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

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

Andrea Rocker (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a study on how Klebsiella pneumoniae outer membrane porins affect its permeability to antibiotics. They suggest caution be taken when targeting this species and other car

Soumyananda Chakraborti (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and collaborators from Poland, UK and Canada report the characterization of NinH, encoded by bacteriophage lambda. NinH is the first example of a phage mimic of the bacterial Nucleoi

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

Here's a nice article on the 'age of bacteriophage' written by undergraduate students Muskan Gupta and Rohit Gokhale at Acharya Narendra Dev College in New Delhi. Included is some excellent phage art! This was written as part of an online t

Maryn McKenna wrote a new Wired piece on how the COVID crisis may worsen the AMR crisis. Within it, she links to a useful compendium of literature on secondary infections and AMR in the context of COVID-19, which was compiled by two researc

Franck Bouchart (Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) and colleagues published an interdisciplinary paper in Materials Science and Engineering: C showing the potential of 3D-printed calcium phosphate-based ceramics filled with phage cocktai

Susana Costa (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a paper in Scientific Reports on developing a novel flow cytometry assay for detection of Staphylococcus in blood culture samples based on phage-derived proteins. Utilizi

Researchers at Wayne State University led by Dr. Lobelia Samavati have secured a grant worth $1.98 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) to develop a novel T7 phage display te

I am Kübra CAN, I am working at Istanbul University of Medicine Turkey, I am looking a postdoc researcher position for one year about phages, especially European countries. I have strong experience about clinical microbiology, phage isolat

Task [590a] A researcher is exploring the possibility of using selected phages (instead of anti-bodies) to detect COVID-19 antigens in ELISA. Phages have been used earlier for ELISA with the advantage of lower cost, ease of production and g

IPATH's quarterly newsletter is out (subscribe here); in it they discuss how an IPATH phage lab, the Pride Lab, is now doing COVID testing. They interview IPATH physician Saima Aslam about phage therapy, COVID, and life. They've also got li

Phages for Global Health's newsletter is out (subscribe here). They announce they've acquired the funding for their first phage workshop in Asia, set to take place in Malaysia in November 2020 if the COVID situation allows.

Viruses of Microbes 2020 will be postponed by one year: the proposed new dates are 05-09 July 2021. Read more at www.vom2020.org.