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Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc and colleagues from the Sullivan lab at Ohio State University, along with several collaborators from the US, UK, Canada, France, and Belgium, have published a paper this week in Nature Biotechnology describing a

The Eliava Institute is hosting its second Bacteriophage Research and Methodology summer school training course from July 22-Aug 2, 2019, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The course is for master's students, PhD students and young scientists, and cover

Check out two exciting new phage perspectives in mSystems by a couple of key phage scientists: the first, by Jeremy Barr: "Missing a Phage: Unraveling Tripartite Symbioses within the Human Gut", and the second, by Simon Roux: "A Viral Ecoge

How do we translate phage-based applications into clinically- and commercially-viable therapeutics? Join us Sept. 25-26, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium at Kisaco Research's Phage Futures Europe conference! The new agenda is now up, registration

The upcoming PHAGE journal, by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (Editor-in-chief: Martha Clokie), will be launching its inaugural issue in March 2020! The journal covers all aspects of phage biology and is open now for submissions.

Sadly, Dr. Michael Rossmann of Purdue University passed away this week at the age of 88. Dr. Rossmann was a renowned virologist, whose work on structural biology of viruses will not be forgotten. He was key in the discoveries of the structu

The International Bacteriophage Research Consortium, inspired by the antibiotic resistance situation in India and run by Dr. Urmi Bajpai of Delhi University and Dr. Koninika Ray of Open Health Systems Laboratory, has launched its new websit

Glasgow, UK Phage community, I need your help! I'm desperate looking for a P22 prophage that is inducible by temperature (P22 ts c2 29). It was published more than 50 years ago. If you know somebody that could have it, please, contact me at

How do we translate phage-based applications into clinically- and commercially-viable therapeutics? Join us Sept. 25-26, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium at Kisaco Research's Phage Futures Europe conference! The new agenda is now up, registration

Check out two exciting new phage perspectives in mSystems by a couple of key phage scientists: the first, by Jeremy Barr: "Missing a Phage: Unraveling Tripartite Symbioses within the Human Gut", and the second, by Simon Roux: "A Viral Ecoge

Sadly, Dr. Michael Rossmann of Purdue University passed away this week at the age of 88. Dr. Rossmann was a renowned virologist, whose work on structural biology of viruses will not be forgotten. He was key in the discoveries of the structu

The upcoming PHAGE journal, by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (Editor-in-chief: Martha Clokie), will be launching its inaugural issue in March 2020! The journal covers all aspects of phage biology and is open now for submissions.

The Eliava Institute is hosting its second Bacteriophage Research and Methodology summer school training course from July 22-Aug 2, 2019, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The course is for master's students, PhD students and young scientists, and cover

Glasgow, UK Phage community, I need your help! I'm desperate looking for a P22 prophage that is inducible by temperature (P22 ts c2 29). It was published more than 50 years ago. If you know somebody that could have it, please, contact me at

I’m looking for phage typing collections of Enterobacteriaciae (eg. E. coli, Klebsiella, Salmonella) to pursue capsular variant-phage type correlation studies. Please email me at mike@aresinnovation.com or tweet @mkoeris to get in touch! Mi

CARB-X has announced its 2019 calls for proposals. Funding Round 1 covers non-traditional alternatives to antibiotics, including phage! Learn how to apply by tuning in May 16 for a webinar. Expressions of interest can be submitted June 3 –

You may recall reading about the discovery of arbitrium, a peptide produced by Bacillus phages to regulate lysogeny decisions. A new paper by Avigail Stokar-Avihail and colleagues in the Sorek lab at the Weizmann Institute has shown that ar

Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc and colleagues from the Sullivan lab at Ohio State University, along with several collaborators from the US, UK, Canada, France, and Belgium, have published a paper this week in Nature Biotechnology describing a

The business combination transaction between AmpliPhi and C3J, two phage therapy biotech companies, is expected to close today. The new name of the combined company will be Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and shares will be expected to start

The 26th Biennial Conference on Phage/Virus Assembly is happening July 14-19, 2019 at Cragun's Resort in Brainerd, Minnesota. Registration is open until May 30.