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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

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

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!

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!

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.

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!

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

Raniero Lorenzetti Rome, Italy Our group is looking to begin isolating and characterizing phages, first against fish pathogens, mainly at the molecular level. In the future, we will seek to exploit phages to control many animal pathogens. W

Steffanie Strathdee San Diego, CA Want to help #phagetherapy patients? Our collaboration between @IPATH & @TAMU_CPT needs environmental samples for #phagehunts! You can help by sending soil samples to @TAMU_CPT. Message Steffanie Strathdee

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

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

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

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

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

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Raniero Lorenzetti Rome, Italy Our group is looking to begin isolating and characterizing phages, first against fish pathogens, mainly at the molecular level. In the future, we will seek to exploit phages to control many animal pathogens. W

Steffanie Strathdee San Diego, CA Want to help #phagetherapy patients? Our collaboration between @IPATH & @TAMU_CPT needs environmental samples for #phagehunts! You can help by sending soil samples to @TAMU_CPT. Message Steffanie Strathdee

Prasanth Manohar I have completed my Ph.D. at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. My research project deals with the characterization of bacteriophages infecting E. coli, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter species. I have expertise

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