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Elizabeth Burgener (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on methods for extracting and detecting phage DNA from CF patient sputum.

Zachary Barth (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing their use of RNA sequencing to study how a family of viral satellites interacts with the phages they parasitize. They found that the satellites manipulate invading

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced they will provide up to $5M to support Armata Pharmaceuticals in conducting a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial to test the safety and tolerability of phage therapy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in pe

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics just got FDA approval to test their expanding, polymicrobial phage library approach in the clinic. This is a big step, and shows that the FDA can be supportive of a personalized phage library approach to phage th

Phages are abundant in the gut, but few have been isolated and studied. Andrew Hryckowian (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint reporting the genomes of 27 Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron phages. By looking at host trop

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a sneak peek of an upcoming Cell paper from their lab: they've identified a phage-encoded "anti-activator" protein that disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing and pilus ass

Kurt Selle (Locus Biosciences) and colleagues, in collaboration with NC State University, have published a new paper in mBio showing that phage-delivered programmable CRISPR therapeutics (recombinant phage expressing host genome-targeting C

Cooperation, altruism, and cheating... how much do we know about how these interactions apply to phages and their hosts? Patrick Secor and Ajai Dandekar (University of Montana) have published a new mBio minireview on phage-host sociobiology

Wondering how many new species of viruses of microbes have been classified as of late? The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) just published their update on prokaryotic viral taxonomy for the last two years. Highlights in

Ella Balasa, who received phage therapy in 2019 (which she wrote about in Capsid & Tail earlier this year), has her own column in Cystic Fibrosis News Today called This Lung Life. Her newest article describes her participation in an FDA pan

Laura Sisk-Hackworth, an SDSU/UCSD student, wrote a blog post for the Roach Lab blog about a talk given by SDSU professor Rob Edwards as part of the IPATH seminar series about how crAssphage was discovered.

Looking for a new online teaching tool for virology classes? Check out this interactive Virus Explorer by HHMI, which lets you explore the diversity of viruses based on structure, genome type, host range, transmission mechanism, and vaccine

Phage Directory Attention student and postdoctoral phage biologists planning to present a talk or poster at Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this year! Phage Directory will be sponsoring two cash awards (350 Euro each) in collaboration

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a sneak peek of an upcoming Cell paper from their lab: they've identified a phage-encoded "anti-activator" protein that disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing and pilus ass

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics just got FDA approval to test their expanding, polymicrobial phage library approach in the clinic. This is a big step, and shows that the FDA can be supportive of a personalized phage library approach to phage th

Siân Owen, Harvard University Hello everyone, Due to pesky eukaryotic viruses, next week’s PFU meeting will be postponed. On the bright side, last week we received some funding from New England Biolabs to continue catering the meetings, so

Siân Owen, Harvard University Hello everyone, Due to pesky eukaryotic viruses, next week’s PFU meeting will be postponed. On the bright side, last week we received some funding from New England Biolabs to continue catering the meetings, so

Karen Kormuth, Bethany College I'm hoping to use Phi6 and MS2 as a surrogate model system for studying infectious disease transmission. I previously worked at Pitt on influenza viruses, so I'm new to the phage community. Because we're such

Ella Balasa, who received phage therapy in 2019 (which she wrote about in Capsid & Tail earlier this year), has her own column in Cystic Fibrosis News Today called This Lung Life. Her newest article describes her participation in an FDA pan

Phages are abundant in the gut, but few have been isolated and studied. Andrew Hryckowian (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint reporting the genomes of 27 Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron phages. By looking at host trop