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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

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

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.

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

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

Dear colleagues, We are working towards the VoM2020, which is planned to take place on the 13-17 July, in the consideration that the situation will be solved by that occasion. The Organizing Committee is naturally closely monitoring the si

Dear colleagues, We are working towards the VoM2020, which is planned to take place on the 13-17 July, in the consideration that the situation will be solved by that occasion. The Organizing Committee is naturally closely monitoring the si

Adelaide Almeida, University of Aveiro The journal Microorganisms has a special phage issue open called "Bacteriophage Treatment as an Alternative Technology to Inactivate Pathogenic Bacteria: A Generalized Worldwide Growing Acceptance". Gu

Adelaide Almeida, University of Aveiro The journal Microorganisms has a special phage issue open called "Bacteriophage Treatment as an Alternative Technology to Inactivate Pathogenic Bacteria: A Generalized Worldwide Growing Acceptance". Gu

Carmen Gu Liu (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on phage-antibiotic synergy. They've created a comprehensive method for evaluating synergism, additivism, and antagonism for all antibiotic classes, (they're

Paul Kirchberger (UT Austin) and colleagues published a new paper in eLife showing the resurrection of Gokushoviruses, barely-understood single-stranded DNA phages found in metagenomic datasets worldwide, in an experimentally tractable mode

Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio investigating Enterococcus faecalis interactions with a virulent phage. They highlight roles for polysaccharide antigens and DNA mi

Abul Tarafder (University of Oxford) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS showing how the phage Pf4 forms a sheath made of liquid crystalline droplets around its host, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which protects it from antibiotics and more.

Patrick Secor (University of Montana) and colleagues published a review on Pf phages and what we know so far about their impacts on Pseudomonas virulence, immunity and chronic infections.

Reminder: thinking of submitting an abstract for Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this July? The abstract deadline is coming up soon: March 16th!

STAT Madness has begun and there are 2 days left in round 1. Vote for the best biomedical innovations (in a "March Madness"-style format!). Phage therapy for alcoholic liver disease (UCSD) is in the running!

The first issue of Mary Ann Liebert's PHAGE journal is available now online.

The second meeting of Boston PFU (Phage Fanatics United) takes place March 19 at 5:30 pm at the Harvard Medical School Countway Medical Library. There will be food and two phage research talks (by Mia Liberman and Sian Owen). Doing phage wo

The second meeting of Boston PFU (Phage Fanatics United) takes place March 19 at 5:30 pm at the Harvard Medical School Countway Medical Library. There will be food and two phage research talks (by Mia Liberman and Sian Owen). Doing phage wo