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Locus Biosciences (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) is hiring a Scientist for its Phage Discovery and Cocktail Optimization team.

PhagePro is a Boston-based, preclinical phage biotech startup focused on helping the world’s most vulnerable communities. They're looking for a part-time Research Technician to support their R&D team.

Good things…. come to those who wait. It is now evident that corona will continue to disrupt our plans to share science and meet at VoM Portugal yet again this year. The local organizers of the upcoming VoM conferences and the ISVM board ha

We are excited to announce that the Viruses of Microbes 2024 meeting will be held in Cairns, Australia! Being situated on the shores of the Great Barrier Reef and surrounded by the oldest rainforest on Earth, Cairns will host a truly unique

The International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC) and Phage Directory are co-hosting a series of Phage Bioinformatics Webinars. The second speaker in the series will be March 2 at 9.00 pm IST / 7.30 am PST, with a talk by Katelyn

phageSuisse is hosting its second webinar on March 2nd at 20h00 CET on "Temperate bacteriophages and the evolution of the Staphylococcus aureus lineage 398" by Dr. Floriane Laumay from Geneva, Switzerland. Register here!

The NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) is hosting Prof. Paul Turner on Wednesday, March 10 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm, who will give a webinar entitled "Phage Therapy to Combat Infections by Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria". Watch at https

The Centre for Microbiology and Phage Therapy (Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation) is organizing their first Annual Phage International Conference on March 12-13, 2021. Register here (conference already in progress!).

Locus Biosciences announced the completion of a phase 1b trial of CRISPR-Cas3-enhanced phage targeting E. coli in urinary tract infections. The trial met all the endpoints, and represents the first randomized, placebo-controlled trial using

TechnoPhage has initiated a phase I/IIa study to test a phage treatment for diabetic foot infections. This product is the first of TechnoPhage’s pipeline to enter clinical trials, constituting an exciting milestone for the company. The resu

Esther Shmidov (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and colleagues published a new paper on a counter selection-based novel method of curing prophages in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. They validated their method with local PCR amplification and whole-ge

Shayla Hesse (National Cancer Institute, USA) and colleagues published a new paper showing that mutations in genes coding for cell surface structures impair adsorption of phages in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. They concluded t

Mabruka Salem (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a new paper on the isolation and characterization of three broad host range Yersinia phages. Phages were characterized with TEM, growth curves, burst size assays, and genome si

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia gladioli phages for a patient in Germany. 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 (co-)hosted three webinars: Africa Phage Forum #2 with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, the first event of a new IBRC Phage Bioinformatics Series with Deborah Jacobs-Sera, and PHAVES #12 with Dr. Betty Kutter. Here are the recordings

Computercraft is hiring a scientist to work with a team of virologists and computer scientists to improve viral sequence resources at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

The Wilhelm lab is seeking a post-doctoral research associate to study the genetics of viruses that infect microalgae. The post-doc will work in a collaborative team and perform experiments that develop tools used to genetically engineer vi

The Environmental Microbial Genomics (EMG) group at the University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD scholarship in phage biocontrol of the phyllosphere microbiome.

The Vardi lab is seeking a PhD and postdoc candidates w/expertise in metabolomics to join a new project funded by the Simons Foundation in the field of chemical ecology, focusing on alga-virus interactions & chemical communication in the oc

The Buchan lab is seeking a post-doc to study viruses (phages) that infect a member of the Roseobacter lineage of marine bacteria. The candidate will work to investigate host-phage interactions and influence on competitiveness in marine nic