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Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity. Check out this awesome Twitter thread by Jay Hinton about the discover

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and Corinne Maurice published a new pre-print on bioRxiv on the app they developed called OnePetri: accelerating common bacteriophage Petri dish assays with computer vision. Check out the behind the app a

Anders Nørgaard Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal showing subtypes of tail spike proteins predicts the host range of Ackermannviridae phages.

Jessica Sacher (University of Alberta) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing that reduced infection efficiency of phage NCTC 12673 on non-motile Campylobacter jejuni strains is related to oxidative stress. They uncovered a

This week, we highlight the four feature articles we published in September! Learn about a new plaque counting app by Michael Shamash, a new plaque sizing tool by Ellina Trofimova, how Australian pediatrician Ameneh Khatami is treating kids

The MacNeill lab at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) is hiring a Research Fellow to investigate the molecular genetics of DNA ligase function in T5 and T5-like phages.

Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France) is seeking a molecular- and microbiology intern to help expand their collection of anaerobic bacteria and isolate phages against them, and assist with the development of high-throughput pipelines and process

The Venturini group at the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) is seeking a PhD student to study phage therapy for non-typhoidal Salmonella infection.

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'. The 'super earlybird' deadline is Oct 1. And you

Felix Biotechnology, South San Francisco is hiring a chief science officer to work closely with their executive team to drive their phage platform & therapeutic portfolio.

The Le Roux lab at the Station Biologique de Roscoff (Roscoff, France) is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to explore key ecological and evolutionary processes underlying phage-bacteria dynamics in the marine environment.

Twitter call out from Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team: Would you like to be a part of the #WorldPhageWeek Celebration (coming up in late October 2021) as an organization or a genomic company? You can do this through the following: • Spo

Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Barr who was named a 2021 Victorian Tall Poppy Award winner! The Tall Poppy Award was created to recognise Australian intellectual and scientific excellence. Dr. Barr leads a 14-member research group at Monash

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics was awarded an additional $8 Million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for the continued development of phage therapies for the treatment of infectious diseases. The new funding brings the total DoD contr

Necrotizing enterocolitis is a currently unpreventable life-threatening GI disorder of preterm infants. Fecal microbiota transplantation is promising, but risks transfer of pathogenic microbes. Anders Brunse (University of Copenhagen, Denma

Elyse Stachler (Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing phage treatment before chemical disinfection can enhance removal of pla

Aisling Brady (University of Glasgow, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology showing that the arbitrium system controls prophage induction. This mechanism was explored in Bacillus subtilis.

Shiraz Shah (Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing hundreds of viral families in the healthy infant gut. These results were obtained from sequencing and analysing fecal viromes from

This week, we're featuring an article co-published with PHAGE Journal highlighting a selection of talks from the Evergreen 2021 conference, written by a group of phage-enthusiastic students and postdocs who attended! This week's feature ar

The Gómez de Agüero lab at Würzburg University, Germany, is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the role of phages in the skin microbiome.