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Thanks to all those who attended PHAVES #17 this week, where Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, presented their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for rec

The African Phage Forum (APF) will host its fourth event next week, May 26 at 6-8PM East Africa Time (8-10AM Pacific time). The guest speaker will be Dr. Arshnee Moodley, who will give a talk entitled 'Challenges of using phages in the vete

The Phage Virus Assembly conference (#PVA2021) will take place online July 27–30, 14:00–18:00 (BST, GMT+1:00). Register for the conference here. Submit your abstracts by May 31!

We warmly invite you to attend our 11th annual international bacteriophage conference “Phages 2021” – the longest running phage conferences series in Europe - which will be held virtually, via Zoom or equivalent, on 07th-08th September 2021

Check out this podcast interview with Felix Biotech co-founder and CEO, Rob McBride, who talks about how phage can be used to combat urgent microbial challenges in human health and beyond!

The NSW Government, Australian Federal Government and industry partners have committed $3 Million to launch “Phage Australia”. The project, led by Prof. Jonathan Iredell at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, along with colleagues

Danielle Campbell (University of Illinois) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Reports showing that infection with Bacteroides phage BV01 alters the host transcriptome and bile acid metabolism. News article | Paper

Wai Hoe Chin (Monash University) and colleagues published a new preprint showing phage adaptation to a mammalian mucosa reveals a trans–domain evolutionary axis. Paper | Tweet thread

Betty Shen (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and colleagues published a new paper in Structure showing coordination of phage genome degradation versus host genome protection by a bifunctional restriction-modification enzyme visualize

Colin Lam (Roche Molecular Systems) and colleagues published a new paper in ACS Synthetic Biology showing a tail fiber engineering platform for improved bacterial transduction-based diagnostic reagents.

We warmly invite you to attend our 11th annual international bacteriophage conference “Phages 2021” – the longest running phage conferences series in Europe - which will be held virtually, via Zoom or equivalent, on 07th-08th September 2021

This week, we've got highlights and recordings for the six "iVoM" webinars we co-hosted with the VoM/ISVM team from Sept 2020 to March 2021! These webinars included talks by 18 expert speakers and brought together more than 1000 unique viru

Felix Biotech (a clinical stage US phage therapy-focused biotech company) is hiring scientists, research associates, & associate scientists.

Hany Anany (University of Guelph and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) has a postdoc position available starting July to study Campylobacter and Salmonella phages (for host interaction and biocontrol applications). Only open to Canadian Cit

Texas A&M Agrilife Research is hiring a Technician II to work on phage-related (and plant/greenhouse-related) experiments.

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics is hiring a Banking Manufacturing Technician to work within the BioBanking Department and may also have the opportunity to work across other manufacturing departments.

Steven Wilhelm (University of Tennessee) is seeking a postdoc to join their team and study giant viruses that infect algae.

Thanks so much to everyone who attended PHAVES #16 this week! Here's the recording! Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the CU Anschutz and CU Denver gave a fantastic joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvag

PHAVES #17 will be May 18, 5pm CEST (Paris time). Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris will present their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, a

Has anyone in the community used/heard of an automated system that does plaque identification, picking, and subculturing? Please email jessica@phage.directory with suggestions/links — thanks!