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#### Dear phage community, We recognize the importance of supporting fundamental phage research, because effective phage therapy starts from a basic understanding of phages. We're excited to announce that we're working on publishing affo

A new paper by Mohammad Tariq and colleagues at the University of Northumbria describes induction of temperate P. aeruginosa phages isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis or bronchiectasis. The more advanced the disease, the broader ho

BiomX, a phage therapy biotech company, just announced that it's licensed new bacterial targets for commercialization of phage therapies for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC; a rare, progressive liver disease). The targets: strains of Kl

The now-constant flood of phage sequence data is showing that tailed phages are more genetically diverse than previously thought. This has led to a re-classification of tailed phages, which is described in a new paper by Jakub Barylski and

The journal Viruses has announced that it is now accepting nominations and applications for two travel awards. Awards (800 Swiss Francs each) can be applied to a virology conference in 2020, and can be awarded to PhD students or postdocs.

Fazal Mehmood Khan Wuhan, China I am looking for recommended review articles on phage endolysins. Please send them to fazalmehmoodhu@hotmail.com. Thank you! Wuhan Institute of Virology

Ellie Jameson Can anyone help find a reference for gene loss and genetic drift in lab grown phage isolates? I'm sure there must be something published but my search terms aren't hitting the right publications. (Reply or check out the respon

Ellie Jameson Can anyone help find a reference for gene loss and genetic drift in lab grown phage isolates? I'm sure there must be something published but my search terms aren't hitting the right publications. (Reply or check out the respon

Fazal Mehmood Khan Wuhan, China I am looking for recommended review articles on phage endolysins. Please send them to fazalmehmoodhu@hotmail.com. Thank you! Wuhan Institute of Virology

Paulina Deptula Copenhagen, Denmark Does anyone have access to phages infecting Propionibacterium freudenreichii? I'm trying to isolate my own, but in the meantime I'd like to start testing defence systems with any phage I can get. Please e

Clark Tibbs Newark, Ohio Ohio Department of Health director Amy Acton issued an order to the Mount Carmel Grove City hospital on May 31 to take immediate action to contain an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. If anyone knows of anyone work

Mya Breitbart St. Petersburg, Florida Looking for a lytic #phage capable of infecting Vibrio natrigens (for lab research, not therapy) - can anyone help? Needs to infect well in liquid culture, preferably a myovirus but any dsDNA phage will

A new paper by Alexander Meeske and colleagues at Rockefeller University shows that CRISPR-Cas13, poorly understood compared to other CRISPR-Cas systems, leads to host cell growth inhibition (through degradation of both phage and host RNA)

A new paper by Bryan Hsu and colleagues at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital showed (in the mouse gut) that introducing phages led to predictable shifts in the targeted population, but also had "cascading effects" on non-phage-suscep

Virome datasets are being generated at unprecedented rates, but new data are rarely cross-compared, which leads to virus novelty being inflated in new datasets and many viral sequences going undetected. A new preprint by Ann Gregory and col

An interesting reflection by Prof. Marc Bonten of UMC Utrecht on the current impasse in the Netherlands when it comes to the need for phage clinical trials, and on UMCU's recent discussions with national health authorities on the matter.

Rick Bright, Director of BARDA, shared his opinion on how the recent bankruptcy of Achaogen (a BARDA-funded biotech that recently brought an antibiotic to market, then saw such poor sales that it closed its doors) proves that the marketing

Steffanie Strathdee San Diego, California Looking for #phage against #Legionella, in anticipation of an urgent request for #Phagetherapy for a patient in #HongKong whose family reached out @IPATH. If you have #bacteriophage against any Legi

Clark Tibbs Newark, Ohio Ohio Department of Health director Amy Acton issued an order to the Mount Carmel Grove City hospital on May 31 to take immediate action to contain an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. If anyone knows of anyone work

Paulina Deptula Copenhagen, Denmark Does anyone have access to phages infecting Propionibacterium freudenreichii? I'm trying to isolate my own, but in the meantime I'd like to start testing defence systems with any phage I can get. Please e