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Missed last week's Phage Phriday on Clubhouse? Here's the recording of the Q&A with Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, author of "The Perfect Predator". Want more Clubhouse? Get the app (iphone only) and follow Phage Club — currently running weekly

Fixed Phage, a Glasgow-based phage biotech company commercialising phage immobilisation and stabilisation-based technology, has secured £2.4 million to scale up its fight against new microbial threats that pose risks to human health and agr

PBD Biotech has secured a £2.3m investment to take Actiphage®, a rapid, accurate phage-based bovine TB test through to validation by the World Organisation for Animal Health. This test has potential to enable farmers to effectively remove T

James Doub (University of Maryland School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in Pharmaceuticals on their successful treatment of a recalcitrant Staphylococcus epidermidis prosthetic knee infection with intraoperative phage th

Eleanor Townsend (University of Warwick) and colleagues published a new paper in PHAGE describing the isolation and characterization of 30 novel, genetically diverse Klebsiella phages.

The Center for Phage Technology has published CPT-GFFParser, an extensively featured Python parser for GFF format reading/writing developed by the CPT bioinformatics team (main author Anthony Criscione). It's now available as a python packa

The Bordenstein Lab (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee) is recruiting at all levels to join projects on the molecular mechanisms and evolution of (i) phage WO genes that cause symbiotic phenotypes and (ii) insect genes that regula

Join us April 13 at 4PM CEST for PHAVES #14, which will be a seminar with Dr. Clara Torres-Barceló (Plant Pathology Unit, INRAE, Avignon, France) entitled: "Jack of all strains, master of none? Host range and efficacy in phages of a phytopa

We're excited to announce that we're starting a new stream of PHAVES, running parallel to our researcher-focused series. The new series will focus on phage therapy in the clinic. We'll be featuring clinicians who have treated patients with

PHAVES #16 will be May 12 at 2PM Mountain time. Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the University of Colorado will give a joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvage phage therapy for cure of spinal hardware i

PHAVES #16 will be May 12 at 2PM Mountain time. Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the University of Colorado will give a joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvage phage therapy for cure of spinal hardware i

PHAVES #16 will be May 12 at 2PM Mountain time. Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the University of Colorado will give a joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvage phage therapy for cure of spinal hardware i

PHAVES #16 will be May 12 at 2PM Mountain time. Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the University of Colorado will give a joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvage phage therapy for cure of spinal hardware i

We are urgently seeking Klebsiella pneumoniae phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By receiving the s

This week, we're highlighting the three feature articles we published in March: a quick dive into phage and diabetic foot ulcers, a recap of the Phage Futures conference last month, and a recap of Jon Iredell's PHAVES seminar this month on

The Bioscience Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking a motivated, enthusiastic post-master’s student interested in phage biology research. The goal of the project is to develop a novel high throughput platform to rapidly dis

Dr. Hany Anany (University of Guelph) is looking for a PhD student to work on a newly funded 3-year project with the National Research Council of Canada to develop a phage-based rapid detection device for Listeria monocytogenes using immobi

As mentioned in this month's Quick Dive on phage and diabetic foot infections, Phage Directory is excited to be putting together a new series of talks (ideally the beginning of a working group) on clinical use of phage, starting with diabet

Acknowledging the importance of genomic characterization of phages to understand their biology and for their safe use in therapeutics and other applications, International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC) and Phage Directory, USA ar

Phage Club on Clubhouse is back next week on Wednesday night (9PM Eastern). The theme will be 'Therapeutic Phage on Trial: Burden of Proof in Genomic Analysis', which will be an 'after party' after Justin Clark's seminar on Tuesday March 30