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Thank you to everyone that joined us for our October PHAVES, which was a talk by Bjorn Criel on the PhaLP database for phage lytic proteins that their group has developed — watch the recording here! If you miss any of the PHAVES events you

Viruses modulate carbon cycling, but it's been unknown whether they're active under winter conditions. Gareth Trubl (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) and colleagues published a new paper on active virus-host interactions at sub-freezing tem

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and colleagues published a new paper in The ISME Journal describing phages in the infant gut: a framework for virome development during early life.

Elhanan Tzipilevich (Duke University) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio showing how phage-resistant bacteria reveal a role for potassium in root colonization.

Lyman Ngiam (University of Queensland) and colleagues published a paper in Environmental Microbiology showing that phages isolated from non-target bacteria demonstrate broad host range infectivity against multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Shen-Yuan Hsieh (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing a comparison of PCR vs. PCR-free DNA library preparation for characterising the human faecal virome.

[Thanks to the 15+ labs who have responded!! We'll be in touch soon with next steps!] We are urgently seeking Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages for a cystic fibrosis patient in Switzerland. (More than 140 phages have already been tested, but t

[Thanks to the 15+ labs who have responded!! We'll be in touch soon with next steps!] We are urgently seeking Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages for a cystic fibrosis patient in Switzerland. (More than 140 phages have already been tested, but t

[Thanks to the 3 labs who have responded!] We are urgently seeking Stenotrophomonas phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and t

[Thanks to the 3 labs who have responded!] We are urgently seeking Stenotrophomonas phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and t

In our PHAVES series this summer, Dr. Gina Suh, an infectious disease physician at the Mayo Clinic, and John Haverty, a phage therapy patient, spoke about phage therapy from a doctor's and patient's perspective. Here’s the recording, along

Phage Futures EU 2021 returns in-person in Brussels, Belgium on November 23-24! The theme will be 'Translating phage-based applications into clinically and commercially viable therapeutics'. Are you a student? Today (Oct 15) is the poster

Last chance to get your phage bioinformatics manuscript into PHAGE Journal's special phage AI and informatics issue! If you're working on AI in phage biology or therapy, or tools for host discovery, prediction, etc, submit your manuscript b

Jessica Sacher will chair the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday Oct 27 at 9AM Pacific. Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past Pha

Want to build leadership experience in a fun and low-key setting? If you'd like to chair a future Phage Phun (or PHAVES) event, email phagephun@phage.directory! We'll equip you with everything you need to know, and take care of all the tech

Intralytix, Inc. announced that its food safety product, CampyShield™, has received GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) recognition from the FDA. CampyShield™ contains naturally occurring lytic phages that selectively and specifically kill

The European Food Safety Authority panel published a new paper in EFSA Journal delivering a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting on a set of phages infecting Salmonella gallinarum (Bafasal®) for all av

Austen Terwilliger (TAILOR Labs, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas) and colleagues have published a new paper in Viruses on phage therapy related microbial succession associated with successful clinical outcome for a recurrent urinary tract

Erin Attrill (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS Biology showing individual bacteria in structured environments rely on phenotypic resistance to phage.

Anne Chevallereau (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a review in Nature Reviews Microbiology showing interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments.