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The Global Virome in Health and Disease Keystone Symposium happened this week, and there were many phage talks! Check out the hashtag #ksvirome on Twitter to catch up. And in the spirit of openness, Rob Edwards (SDSU) made his crAssphage pr

Important question: if I had a student who wanted to make an undomesticated bacteriophage mutant that could not make plaques, other than conditionally, is there a way other than bashing plaque isolates at two temperatures after random mutag

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

The Global Virome in Health and Disease Keystone Symposium happened this week, and there were many phage talks! Check out the hashtag #ksvirome on Twitter to catch up. And in the spirit of openness, Rob Edwards (SDSU) made his crAssphage pr

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

Important question: if I had a student who wanted to make an undomesticated bacteriophage mutant that could not make plaques, other than conditionally, is there a way other than bashing plaque isolates at two temperatures after random mutag

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

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!

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

I wish to find out from phage biologists on this platform what they would like to see in terms of metadata as a minimum for a characterised bacteriophage? Any comments can be sent to @AgendiaJuandem on twitter. Thanks

Registration and abstract submission is now open for Viruses of Microbes 2020, which will be hosted in Guimarães, Portugal July 13-17, 2020! P.S. Phage Directory is proud to have built the abstract submission and review system for this eve

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues have published a new preprint on Acinetobacter baumannii phage resistance. They found that phage-resistant mutants were sensitive to complement, other phages, and an

A new Infection and Immunity minireview by Mihnea Mangalea and Breck Duerkop (University of Colorado) explores mechanisms and consequences of phage resistance.

Robert Schooley and Steffanie Strathdee wrote a commentary describing their take on the phage therapy case series published this month by the Iredell group, and on phage therapy as a field of growing importance. They consider this paper to

Luís Melo (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues have published a new review on the efficacy of preclinical phage therapy done in the last 10 years.

DeepPetri is an AI-based tool by Phages4A that semi-automatically determines, measures, and categorizes lysis zones of images of phage spot tests. Sign up to be notified when they launch, and stay tuned to take part in a survey looking at h

I wish to find out from phage biologists on this platform what they would like to see in terms of metadata as a minimum for a characterised bacteriophage? Any comments can be sent to @AgendiaJuandem on twitter. Thanks

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues have published a new preprint on Acinetobacter baumannii phage resistance. They found that phage-resistant mutants were sensitive to complement, other phages, and an

A new Infection and Immunity minireview by Mihnea Mangalea and Breck Duerkop (University of Colorado) explores mechanisms and consequences of phage resistance.

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.