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After a successful phage workshop in Ghana this summer, the nonprofit Phages for Global Health is beginning preparations for a workshop in Tanzania January 12 - 25, 2020. The call for applications will begin in early Sept. Subscribe to the

Question: Hello phage people, does anyone have an improved method to physically remove #phages from liquid broth? Thank you! — @PetrovicFabijan A subset of the answers to date: - We use Amicon filters in my lab to concentrate phage and we

Catherine Hernandez and Britt Koskella of UC Berkeley have shown that they do not observe Pseudomonas syringae phage resistance in planta, no matter what they try, even though they see it in vitro. Also, phage-resistant mutants didn't have

This is a fantastic, endearing, in-depth interview with Betty Kutter, "The First Lady of Phage Research"! Martha Clokie asks the questions, and Betty talks about her life as a phage scientist, how she started out, where her career took her,

After a successful phage workshop in Ghana this summer, the nonprofit Phages for Global Health is beginning preparations for a workshop in Tanzania January 12 - 25, 2020. The call for applications will begin in early Sept. Subscribe to the

Associate Professor Ruby Lin of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research (last week's Capsid & Tail guest writer! has been awarded a grant from BGI Australia to build Australia's first "phage biobank"! The phage bank will give Australian

The journal Viruses will be awarding two travel awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD students. Each award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs for travel to a virology conference in 2020. Apply here by Oct. 31, 2019! To help you find a

#### Question Any advice on how to store phages/ viruses? I know there are quite a few methods for long-time storage but I'd like to hear your advice. Thanks! 😀 — @LeptihnLab #### A few of the answers: "Easiest way that our lab uses is t

Fatma Abdelrhman Dear phage community, I've created a What’s App group for scientists who work on phage and AMR, to gather them, benefit and share experience, knowledge, and research of phage worldwide. Please join and share the link (https

What's the path forward when it comes to phage therapy? According to Shawna McCallin of the University Hospital of Geneva and Phages4All, clinical data is the priority, but it won't be enough. "The recent bankruptcy of Achaogen, a biotech

Associate Professor Ruby Lin of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research (last week's Capsid & Tail guest writer! has been awarded a grant from BGI Australia to build Australia's first "phage biobank"! The phage bank will give Australian

Polish company Proteon Pharmaceuticals has been awarded a 2.9 million Euro grant from the European Regional Development Fund to develop phages to fight bacterial infections in fish farming (aquaculture). The grant will help Proteon improve

What's the hardest part of phage genome annotation? According to Marta Sampaio and colleagues at the University of Minho, it's finding phage promoters. Here's a new tool they developed, PhagePromoter, to help you find them.

The journal Viruses will be awarding two travel awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD students. Each award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs for travel to a virology conference in 2020. Apply here by Oct. 31, 2019! To help you find a

Fatma Abdelrhman Dear phage community, I've created a What’s App group for scientists who work on phage and AMR, to gather them, benefit and share experience, knowledge, and research of phage worldwide. Please join and share the link (https

#### Question Any advice on how to store phages/ viruses? I know there are quite a few methods for long-time storage but I'd like to hear your advice. Thanks! 😀 — @LeptihnLab #### A few of the answers: "Easiest way that our lab uses is t

Polish company Proteon Pharmaceuticals has been awarded a 2.9 million Euro grant from the European Regional Development Fund to develop phages to fight bacterial infections in fish farming (aquaculture). The grant will help Proteon improve

What's the path forward when it comes to phage therapy? According to Shawna McCallin of the University Hospital of Geneva and Phages4All, clinical data is the priority, but it won't be enough. "The recent bankruptcy of Achaogen, a biotech

Olympia Alvarez and Taehoon Ha We are MPH graduate students from California State University, San Marcos, and this survey is for our capstone project on phage therapy. Due to the limited human clinical cases in the literature, we were advis

The 2019 Evergreen International Phage Meeting has come to a close — it was so great meeting so many phage biologists there! Among several highlights, which we'll summarize in a future issue, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Virus