Search

Here’s a great example of the phage community helping each other out on Twitter — thanks to Stephen Stockdale of APC Microbiome (@SteveStockyPhD) and Simon Roux of the Joint Genome Institute (@simroux_virus) for providing answers! #### Her

BiomX, a biotech company developing natural and engineered phages to treat microbiome diseases, announced a merger agreement with Chardan Healthcare Acquisition Corp. The combined company is expected to be listed on the New York Stock Excha

Pherecydes Pharma is joining forces with BIOASTER, a French not-for-profit foundation that brings together academic, industry and its own capacities to execute high-impact, collaborative projects, to explore the use of phage therapy to trea

Bayer has teamed up with the Israeli life sciences investment company Trendlines to form a new biotech company, Ecophage, which will develop phage-based treatments of crop diseases.

Phage surprises all around! Emma Piligrimova and colleagues at the Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms in Russia published a paper on a new Bacillus phage that was previously thought to be a plasmid, and whic

The Burroughs-Wellcome fund has announced a grant to fund study of the interplay between human and microbial biology. The deadline is November 15, 2019. Perhaps phage researchers studying phage interactions with the microbiome/pathogens/hum

Here’s a great example of the phage community helping each other out on Twitter — thanks to Stephen Stockdale of APC Microbiome (@SteveStockyPhD) and Simon Roux of the Joint Genome Institute (@simroux_virus) for providing answers! #### Her

Where did our gut virome originate? A team of 117 authors (from 75 labs & 60 countries), led by Rob Edwards (SDSU) and Bas Dutilh (Utrecht University), has published an impressive new crAssphage study in Nature Microbiology showing how glob

Harald Brüssow, guest editor of the recently completed "Hurdles for Phage Therapy to Become a Reality" issue of Viruses, has written an editorial on the work (30 papers) published in the issue. His take-home lessons for optimizing phage the

How do we inactivate phages after they’ve served their purpose? Here’s a new review by Julia Sommer and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Austria, which goes over the effectiveness of different phage inactivation produc

The first Phages for Global Health Phage Workshop in West Africa started this week! This 2-week lab training workshop is hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Participants from 6 countries (Benin, Cote d

PHAGES in Grenoble will take place on October 8-9, 2019 at the Institute for Structural Biology, on the EPN (European Photon & Neutron Campus) campus in Grenoble. This is the fifth phage symposium organized by PHAGES.fr. Its objective is to

Anca Segall, Dwayne Roach and Steffanie Strathdee recently published a perspective on phage-antibiotic synergy. They conclude that co-treatment with phages and antibiotics has the potential to extend the utility of antibiotics currently in

Harald Brüssow, guest editor of the recently completed "Hurdles for Phage Therapy to Become a Reality" issue of Viruses, has written an editorial on the work (30 papers) published in the issue. His take-home lessons for optimizing phage the

Where did our gut virome originate? A team of 117 authors (from 75 labs & 60 countries), led by Rob Edwards (SDSU) and Bas Dutilh (Utrecht University), has published an impressive new crAssphage study in Nature Microbiology showing how glob

How do we inactivate phages after they’ve served their purpose? Here’s a new review by Julia Sommer and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Austria, which goes over the effectiveness of different phage inactivation produc

PHAGES in Grenoble will take place on October 8-9, 2019 at the Institute for Structural Biology, on the EPN (European Photon & Neutron Campus) campus in Grenoble. This is the fifth phage symposium organized by PHAGES.fr. Its objective is to

The first Phages for Global Health Phage Workshop in West Africa started this week! This 2-week lab training workshop is hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Participants from 6 countries (Benin, Cote d

## Phage Directory, expanded Dear phage fans, You may have noticed some improvements and differences around the site, and we have some exciting news to share! We've heard lots of feedback over the past year, and we've made some additions

The winner of the Microbiology Society’s 2019 Fleming Prize for outstanding research is Prof. Peter Fineran, Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Watch Prof. Fineran’s award talk on phage resistance systems here.