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The Moreira lab at The National University of Singapore are hiring a Research Assistant to work on anaerobic bacteria and phages.

Working on a manuscript related to novel phage bioinformatics tools, AI in phage biology or therapy, or tools for host discovery, prediction, phage characterization, or similar? Consider submitting your next paper to PHAGE journal's upcomin

Felix Biotechnology, South San Francisco is hiring a scientist to join the phage engineering team.

For our next PHAVES (Tues, Oct 5 at 9AM CEST) we have Bjorn Criel, a PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, who will be talking about PhaLP: a database of Phage Lytic Proteins. Register for this and all upcoming seminars here!

Question for the phage community via Twitter from Alexander Hynes, Assist. Prof. at McMaster University: "I've been seeing more phage characterization papers that "optimize MOI" for higher titres. Why? I don't see biological insight, and wh

Another feather in the cap for African phage researchers!! Dr. Jerrold Agbankpe was awarded the Iso Lomso Visiting Scholar Award to collaborate with researchers at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study to develop phages as future a

Twitter call-out by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD: "If you live in Cambodia & want to participate in a phage hunt to cure superbug infections common in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients, contact me, Dr. Saima Aslam or IPATH at IPATH@health.ucsd.edu.

Dear Phage aficionados, We are excited to announce the Inaugural Symposium on Bacteriophages and Bacteriophage-derived Technologies to be held on December 10th 2021 in Singapore, jointly organised by Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU)

For our next PHAVES (Tues, Oct 5 at 9AM CEST) we have Bjorn Criel, a PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, who will be talking about PhaLP: a database of Phage Lytic Proteins. Register for this and all upcoming seminars here!

Missed out on a PHAVES seminar? You can catch up on all the PHAVES at the Phage Directory Youtube. Newly added videos: - Aël Hardy's PHAVES talk on the inhibition of phage infection by antibiotics - Dr. Saima Aslam's PHAVES talk on clinica

Jolien Onsea (University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues have published a study protocol in Viruses on phage therapy for difficult-to-treat infections. This article aims to address the scientific hurdles of phage therapy by using

Eric Brown (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing that gut microbiome ADP-ribosyltransferases are widespread phage-encoded fitness factors. Previously thought to be restricted to pathogens,

Anshul Sinha (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues published a pre-print showing that the transplantation of phages from ulcerative colitis patients shifts the gut bacteriome and exacerbates severity of induced colitis.

Angela Makumi (International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya) and colleagues published a paper in Antibiotics on the potential benefit and challenges of phage therapy for the livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Aa Haeruman Azam (Jichi Medical University, Japan) and colleagues published a review article in Antibiotics on current progress in phage engineering technology and its application in modern medicine.

This week, we’re featuring a post by Ellina Trofimova, software engineer-turned-MSc student at Macquarie University in Australia. She tells us about the Plaque Size Tool she’s developed, including how it came about and what it can do! About

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

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is looking for a Postdoctoral Microbiological Laboratory Manager to coordinate and support wet lab activities and pursue own research interests within the scope of Viral Ecology and Omics.

The Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), based in Norwich, UK is hiring a Virome Research Scientist to study the intestinal virome and understanding the diversity and impact of viruses at key life stages during human development. The success

The Shkoporov lab at APC Microbiome, Ireland is hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher to work on a new project, PHAGENET, which involves investigating the role of phages in horizontal gene transfer in the human gut microbiome.