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#Women_in_Bacteriophage will start recruiting social media coordinator volunteers. If you are interested, send an email to: womeninphage@gmail.com or talk to Fatma via Twitter.

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

African Phage Forum (APF) is hosting the sixth session of their webinar series on September 24 at 7 AM EAT/9 AM PDT. Guest speaker Dr. Ivan Liachko will be presenting his talk on "Culture-Free Assembly and Host-Attribution of Phage Genomes

Stephanie Lynch will host the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday September 29 at 3PM Pacific (an Australian friendly time!). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed u

Felix Biotechnology was awarded an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant for $256,000 to further enhance their machine learning-based approach for engineering phage as a novel treatment for drug-resistant bacterial inf

Pawel Markwitz (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in ISME on genome-driven elucidation of phage-host interplay and the impact of phage resistance evolution on bacterial fitness. They systematically assessed

Jennifer Mahony (University College Cork, Ireland) published a commentary in mSystems on the use of cell surface polysaccharides as a common strategy for phage adsorption. She discussed how identification of common host recognition and bind

Xin You (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany) and colleagues published a preprint on phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria. They report the ability of hyphal-riding bacteria to transport lytic phages and utilize th

Olivia Williams Barber (Northwestern University, USA) and colleagues published a minireview in mSystems on how the future of phage therapy will promote antimicrobial susceptibility. They examined bacterial resistance mechanisms, the current

As part of the 'Meet-a-Scientist' series, the Science Journal for Kids and Teens interviewed Tiffany Luong, PhD student and a phage scientist at San Diego State University. Check out the interview here to find out more about 'Can virsues sa

Stephanie Lynch will host the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday September 29 at 3PM Pacific (an Australian friendly time!). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed u

Submit your next paper to PHAGE journal's upcoming Phage Informatics and AI special issue! They're looking to publish novel phage bioinformatics tools, AI in phage biology and therapy, and tools for host discovery and prediction, phage char

This week, we're featuring a post by Michael Shamash, a graduate student at McGill University in Canada, who developed the new phage plaque counting app OnePetri! He takes us through the story behind the app, how it works, and what its futu

CSIRO (Brisbane, Australia) is hiring a postdoc to identify and characterise role of bacteriophages of Enterobacteriaceae in mobilisation of antibiotic resistance genes. The position will be part of the Microbiomes for One Systems Health -

The Cavendish lab at the University of Cambridge is hiring a Research Assistant/Associate to develop a new CRISPR-based technique for gene editing of bacteriophage T7 to better understand and manipulate phage-host interactions.

Massey University (New Zealand) is hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. The position includes a strong teaching component in microbiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics programmes. The facilities, equipment and resources such as strain

Johnson & Johnson (Springhouse, Pennsylvania) is hiring a scientific director of phage discovery, antibacterials, and infectious diseases.

For PHAVES #21, Aël Hardy, PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, will give a talk entitled 'Molecular multitasking: inhibition of phage infection by aminoglycoside antibiotics' on September 7 at 6PM CEST! Register here! (If you'

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

Did you miss our special Wednesday edition of Phage Phriday AKA Phage Phwednesdays? No worries! It is now available on YouTube. Check out what's going on Down Under! Here Adriana Carolina Hernandez interviews Dr. Jon Iredell and other Phage