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New perspectives on the therapeutic role of phages and emerging knowledge on their role in the gut microbiota.

Cell wall deficiency may limit the efficacy of phage therapy.

A temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management components.

This week, we've got a discussion on the advantages, disadvantages and comparative costs of single use bioreactors vs. traditional solutions, written by Adam Ostrowski, Technical Application Specialist at Cellexus. Every development process

The Fischer Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Heidelberg, Germany) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the infection biology, ecology and evolution of protist-specific viruses.

The Pacific Northwest National Lab (Richland, WA) is hiring a Post Doctorate RA - Virome for a soil virome project related to bioenergy, carbon cycling & climate change.

The Talbert Lab at Iowa State University (Iowa, USA) is hiring a postdoctoral research associate to work on an NIH-funded project focused on bacteriophage engineering for therapeutic applications.

This issue was sponsored by Cellexus, which pioneers revolutionary, market leading single-use airlift bioreactor systems and technology. Email enquiries@cellexus.com for more info.

The White Lab at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) is hiring a postdoctoral research fellow to to study the molecular microbiology and the mechanism by which cyclic nucleotides are generated in response to viral/phage infection.

The Young Lab at the Centre of Phage Technology (Texas, USA) has post-doctoral and post-baccalaureate positions to study the molecular mechanisms of phage lysis.

Clinical-stage biotech company, Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT)(Maryland, USA) is hiring a clinical assay laboratory analyst to conduct clinical testing of phage and assist in the conduct and reporting of clinical testing.

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference finally taking place summer 2022 in Portugal (after being rescheduled from 2020). In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM),

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference finally taking place summer 2022 in Portugal (after being rescheduled from 2020). In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM),

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference finally taking place summer 2022 in Portugal (after being rescheduled from 2020). In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM),

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team, an undergraduate SEA-PHAGES team at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria announces the launch of its first journal issue PHAMILIA. The first undergraduate research journal in bacteriophage biology showca

Stephanie Lynch will chair the next Phage Phun session, which will be Thursday Nov 25 at 10AM AEST (Wed Nov 24, 3PM Pacific time). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for th

Erica Birkholz (University of California, San Diego) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing a cytoskeletal vortex drives phage nucleus rotation during jumbo phage replication in E. coli.

Fatima Aysha Hussain (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts) and colleagues published a new paper in Science showing rapid evolutionary turnover of mobile genetic elements drives bacterial resistance to phages.

Lore Van Espen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems showing a previously undescribed highly prevalent phage identified in a Danish enteric virome catalog

Rashedul Islama (Guelph Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition a systematic review from basics to omics on bacteriophage applications in poultry production and pro