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The 4th International Hands-on Phage Biotechnology Course takes place June 17-21, 2019 in Braga, Portugal. Learn theory and techniques for studying phage-host interaction and performing phage genetic manipulation. Registration is now open!

If you want to better understand the funds available for AMR drug development, here's a slideshow from a talk given this week by John Rex of the Wellcome Trust. It explains what's available, the different funding models that exist, provides

The Bacteriophage Biology and Therapeutics Special Interest Group is part of the Australian Society for Microbiology. Their goal is to promote collaborative phage work in and outside Australia, so especially if you do phage work in the area

This week, several exciting new papers on the evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems were published. One, by Amelia McKitterick and colleagues from the Seed lab at UC Berkeley, shows how a phage-encoded CRISPR-Cas system interferes with an anti-ph

Dr. Krystyna Dabrowska of the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy at the Polish Academy of Sciences has just published a systematic and critical review of the phage pharmacokinetics and bioavailability literature (spanning 1924

This just in! Videos of many of the 2017 Evergreen International Phage Meeting's talks are now online. Register for the 2019 meeting here.

If you want to better understand US laws affecting the development of prescription drugs, and the roles and responsibilities of the FDA, edX (HarvardX) is running an online course called The FDA and Prescription Drugs: Current Controversies

Announcing a new series of hands-on phage (meta)genomics workshops at this year's Evergreen International Phage Meeting! Workshops will take place Sat, Aug 3, 4-6 pm and 7-9 pm, and Sun, Aug 4, 9-11 am. An open phage genomics and metagenomi

Johanna Sweere and colleagues just published a very exciting paper today in Science! A temperate filamentous phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa dampens the immune response against P. aeruginosa, which leads to increased P. aeruginosa virulence

TU Delft has just opened a new phage library (Fagenbank) for phage therapy. If you have phages you'd like to see used in medical treatments, reach out to Fagenbank by email at fagenbank@tudelft.nl. This library is an initiative by Dr. Stan

A Canadian cystic fibrosis patient is looking to become the first in Canada to receive phage therapy. He currently seeks phages for his Burkholderia cepacia infection, and his doctors will have to convince Health Canada to give this a try.

Sooyeon Song and colleagues have published a new paper showing that E. coli employs both active (lytic and temperate) and inactive phages (a cryptic prophage) to discriminate between nearby strains and control cell-cell contact according to

virMine is a new phage bioinformatics tool by Andrea Garretto and colleagues at Loyola University of Chicago. Use virMine to identify viral genomes from raw reads representative of viral or mixed (viral and bacterial) communities. Paper | G

We've been interviewed on the What Matters with Steven Brantley podcast! We talk antibiotic resistance, phage therapy, and Phage Directory. Listen here (64 min).

Save the date! The 23rd biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting will be held in Olympia, WA Aug. 4-9, 2019. The organizers are in the process of selecting ~20 invited keynote speakers. Nominate speakers until Sept. 30! Please includ

Phage Futures 2019 “super early bird pricing” ends today, Nov. 2 (Note: the student rate will still available until Nov. 30). Get 10% off with this code: PHDI10. Also, the organizers just announced that they're accepting poster submissions

Benler and colleagues at San Diego State University published a new paper that shows that diversity-generating retroelements (which lead to hypervariable proteins) are present in many prophages found in bacteria that live in the human gut.

Dr. Eleanor Jameson has an opening for a PhD student to study the role of phages in the gut microbiome at the University of Warwick. Apply here!

33,000: the number of deaths in Europe caused by antibiotic-resistant infections in 2015. Surprisingly, this new study found that 1/3 of these deaths were in Italy.

How much should we worry about phage-induced spreading of antibiotic resistance? This review by Clara Torres-Barceló lays out some contrasting viewpoints and data on the matter.