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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.

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

The MDPI journal Antibiotics will publish a special issue on Phage Therapy: A biological Approach to Treatment of Bacterial Infections. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 March 2020. The journal Impact factor is 2.921. Please se

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.

The MDPI journal Antibiotics will publish a special issue on Phage Therapy: A biological Approach to Treatment of Bacterial Infections. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 March 2020. The journal Impact factor is 2.921. Please se

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

What is the best way to search an assembled phage contig against human metagenome datasets? Regular blastn at NCBI doesn't seem to include these, do we have to download the data to search locally or is there an online resource? — @jason_j_g

Alexandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published their safe IV treatment of 13 critically-ill, septic patients with a GMP-prepared S. aureus phage cocktail in Nature Microbiology. Jon

Vivek Mutalik (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues have published a new preprint on high-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli. Through systematic, genome-wide loss-of-function and gain-of-function studi

Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems on quantitative modeling of phage-antibiotic combination therapy. Their findings highlight the role of antibiotics and the immune

Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) and colleagues have shown that phages isolated from growth-stunted Bangladeshi children are different from those in non-stunted children. They show these phages are infectious i

Phages are extremely diverse at the genetic level, but not so much at the structural level... why? In an informative new review, Moïra Dion (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues have explored phage diversity at the structural, genomic a

Are there really 10^31 viral particles on Earth? Here's a new minireview by A. R. Mushegian (National Science Foundation) on how that number ("The Hendrix Product") was derived, and whether it needs to be revised.

Submit an abstract for the Monash-UCSD Bacteriophage Symposium (Mar 30, 2020, Melbourne, Australia).

ISME (International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, August 9-14, 2020, Cape Town, South Africa) will have a virus/phage session this year. Submit abstracts by March 6; propose round table topics by Feb 29!

What is the best way to search an assembled phage contig against human metagenome datasets? Regular blastn at NCBI doesn't seem to include these, do we have to download the data to search locally or is there an online resource? — @jason_j_g

Are there really 10^31 viral particles on Earth? Here's a new minireview by A. R. Mushegian (National Science Foundation) on how that number ("The Hendrix Product") was derived, and whether it needs to be revised.

ISME (International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, August 9-14, 2020, Cape Town, South Africa) will have a virus/phage session this year. Submit abstracts by March 6; propose round table topics by Feb 29!

Submit an abstract for the Monash-UCSD Bacteriophage Symposium (Mar 30, 2020, Melbourne, Australia).

Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems on quantitative modeling of phage-antibiotic combination therapy. Their findings highlight the role of antibiotics and the immune