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Interested in contributing a blog post about your phage work (or your phage initiative) to C&T? Check out our Guest Writer Guide! In keeping with our 4x per year draft submission deadline system, our next deadline is approaching! - For Ja

Interested in contributing a blog post about your phage work (or your phage initiative) to C&T? Check out our Guest Writer Guide! In keeping with our 4x per year draft submission deadline system, our next deadline is approaching! - For Ja

The Leibniz Institute DSMZ (Braunschweig, Germany) is hiring a Postdoctoral research associate to study new concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions – from single cells to microbial communities. For further information and more detai

This week, we're featuring a guest post by Raphael Hans Lwesya, MSc student at Makerere University in Uganda and founder of thephage.xyz, a new phage-related info hub. Raphael shares his thoughts on phage technology development in Africa, h

The Mostowy lab (Jagiellonian University, Poland) is seeking two postdoctoral researchers to study the evolution of the phage proteome and reconciling co-evolutionary dynamics of bacterial surface sugars and temperate phages in the genus Kl

Sciensano (Belgium) is looking for a coordinating scientist for the SAPHETY project (2021-2024) to dive deep into quality aspects of phage preparations for human use (with Rob Lavigne), and to work with Jean-Paul Pirnay and Shawna McCallin

Leibniz-Institut DSMZ (Germany) is looking for a postdoctoral research associate. Specific tasks include the provision and deposit of novel phages and host organisms, isolation and characterization of phages, sequencing and subsequent bioin

The Van Tyne Lab in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, USA) is looking for a laboratory technician to assist with ongoing basic and clinical research efforts focused on using bacteriophages to t

PhReD Database is relaunching! The Phage Receptor Database (PhReD) compiles receptors involved in phage-host recognition. We are proud to have partnered with the Bio-conversion Databank Foundation (BioDF) to relaunch and continuously impr

Hello everybody! I was wondering if someone has on their collection or knows someone that has the phiCTX phage from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. I am looking for a cos-type phage in PA and it seems that’s one of the few well characterised. — Ro

Volta Labs is automating Next Generation Sequencing sample prep (for Illumina, Oxford Nanopore and Pac Bio). They recognize that increasing the throughput (and lowering the cost) of sequencing will become critical to the phage field moving

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for the 24th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting (and first time as a hybrid physical/virtual meeting!), which is wrapping up today! We had an incredible time with all of you! For all of

Jonathan Lynch (University of Hawaii, USA) and colleagues published a preprint on host- and bacterium-based determinants that protect squid-associated Vibrio fischeri from phage predation. They show that mutations in V. fischeri's exopolysa

Matthew Bond (Dartmouth College, USA) published a paper in eLife on how matrix-trapped viruses can prevent invasion of bacterial biofilms by colonizing cells. They showed that T7 phage remains viable when trapped in an E. coli biofilm, and

Audrey Labarde (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS on temporal compartmentalization of viral infection in bacterial cells. They showed that infection of Bacillus subtilis by phage SPP1 hijacks host rep

Kema Malki (University of South Florida) and colleagues published a paper in AEM on spatial and temporal dynamics of prokaryotic and viral community assemblages in a lotic system. They looked at prokaryotic and viral abundance and diversity

Rosanna Wright (University of Manchester, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how functional diversity increases efficacy of phage combinations. Their findings suggest that functional diversity is the key to effective phage combinati

This week, we’re highlighting the four features we published in July! We've got a sneak-peek into the upcoming Evergreen Phage Meeting, a blog post on Phage Directory's new phage research feedback exchange initiative, 'Instill', an intervie

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Bay Area, California) is hiring a biologist postdoctoral fellow to develop and apply methods to isolate novel phages, study host-phage interaction determinants, use viral metagenomic and metatranscriptomic da

The Anantharaman Lab at University of Wisconsin Madison is hiring for multiple PhD and postdoctoral positions to study phage in marine and human microbiomes for NSF and NIH-supported projects. Please contact Karthik Anantharaman with CV if