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Lytic phages are usually thought to be best for therapy, but this recent review by Rodrigo Monteiro et al. makes a case for giving temperate phages a second look.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School has an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor position in virology. Apply by May 13, 2019.

#### Welcome to Phage Directory, new labs! Check out the 17 new labs we just added to Phage Directory! We just made our signup process faster, so if you've thought about signing up your lab, now's the time!

Irshad Ul Haq, PhD, Assistant Professor, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan We are seeking help/collaboration on phage and host sequencing. We don't have any resources to do the sequencing of these, and therefore would like to connect with someon

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

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).

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

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.

Irshad Ul Haq, PhD, Assistant Professor, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan We are seeking help/collaboration on phage and host sequencing. We don't have any resources to do the sequencing of these, and therefore would like to connect with someon

Miami Beach, Florida We are seeking Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages to treat a dog's antibiotic-resistant ear infection. Please get in touch with us by email at staff@phage.directory if you are willing to test your phages on the dog's strain,

We have our first Phage Directory volunteer! Cathy Nguyen will be helping with Capsid & Tail's What's New and Jobs section. We also welcome our first guest writer this week, Lucy Furfaro! If you'd like to help (or be kept up to date on oth

Ednner Emmanuel Victoria Blanco Thank you to all the students from Latin America for participating in this 2019 phage course, and special thanks to Martin Loessner and Alejandro Reyes for the amazing lectures and workshop. Hope to see you a

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

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

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

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

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