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The World Health Organization wants to better understand the current pre-clinical antibacterial R&D landscape! Companies, institutions and individuals doing pre-clinical work targeting any of the WHO Priority Pathogens, TB and/or C. diffici

Eric Boodman wrote a great article on the background of Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (paywall)

Chen et al. published a groundbreaking new study on the discovery of a new kind of phage transduction that leads to genome hypermobility. You’ve heard of generalized and specialized transduction—now there's "lateral transduction."

Dr. Darren Smith posted a new 24-month postdoc position at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The postdoc will study the ecology and biology of phages in the guts of pre-term infants. Apply by Nov 30, 2018.

Dr. Urmi Bajpai invited phage researchers to join a newly unveiled global research consortium for promoting phage and lysin therapy: the International Bacteriophage Research Consortium. This is a collaboration between Acharya Narendra Dev C

"As a specialist in infectious diseases, I have been interested in phage therapy as long as I can remember, but only recently have I felt comfortable saying this out loud." - Dr. David Pride, UCSD. Read more about his perspective in this ar

Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life is the memoir of Mallory Smith, whose story inspired us to create Phage Directory. It comes out next week (Mar 12). Mallory was set to receive phage therapy in November 2017 after a Burkholderia cepacia i

If you know anyone who hasn't heard Tom and Steffanie's story yet, here's an in-depth podcast interview with them on the Super Awesome Science Show that you can share. It also goes into phage use in the livestock industry in an interview wi

Texas A&M University is a major hub of phage research, and the Center for Phage Technology there is the only state-funded phage research center in the US. Learn about the center and their involvement in Tom Patterson's phage therapy case he

Filter results of BLAST analysis by viral host species with this new tool: VHost-Classifier, created by Ezra Kitson and Curtis Suttle. (Paper / Github)

Marco Cafora and colleagues have developed a zebrafish model of cystic fibrosis and used it to show that phage therapy can treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa (and modulate immune response in the fish). This is the first time that phage therapy ha

Check out this exciting new preprint from the Banfield lab and colleagues. They sequenced DNA from diverse ecosystems and found HUNDREDS of huge phage genomes (up to 716 kbp). The phages they found encode lots of new things phages don't typ

The 2019 Evergreen Bacteriophage Meeting, taking place Aug 4-9, 2019 in Olympia, Washington, is now open for registration! If you work with phages, this iconic biennial (once per 2 years) meeting is not to be missed! *COMING SOON: We're he

We're less than two weeks away from another exciting translational phage conference! The Bacteriophage Therapy Summit will take place in Boston, Massachusetts March 25-27, 2019. The meeting will focus on the discovery, translation and acce

New feature! We're adding commenting on Capsid & Tail articles. Visit this issue on our website (or any other issue) and scroll to the bottom to comment!

Listen to Dr. Minmin Yen, co-founder & CEO of the new biotech startup PhagePro, discuss her company's goals of preventing cholera with phages on the podcast "Important, Not Important". An especially great listen for grad students & postdocs

Want to learn to analyze your (phage) genomes? The PATRIC/RAST teams will be offering a tutorial at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL from Apr 16-18, 2019. Email Lisa Hundley to sign up (hurry, workshop is free BUT l

Cherry canker is a devastating tree disease that could one day be treated by phages. Learn about the work George Sundin's lab at Michigan State University is doing to make this a reality!

More phage defense systems?? (And a great article title!) Check out this new paper on Gordonia phages by Matthew T. Montgomery and colleagues in the Hatfull lab.

This summer, a new phage journal, PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research, will be launched by the publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., and the editor in chief will be Dr. Martha Clokie!