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The Lindell lab is seeking PhD students and Post-docs to study horizontal gene transfer in cyanophage using experimental evolution, Cyanophage ecology in the North Pacific Ocean, and Synechococcus genome adaptation in the Red Sea. Also seek

The Turner Lab at Yale is hiring a research assistant to work on phage microbiology and phage therapy research projects.

[Date change!] The sixth iVoM event will be Thursday, Mar 4, 11AM GMT (note earlier time than usual too!), and the theme will be "Biotechnology applications in health care". It will feature talks by: Laurent Debarbieux: Phages (in)action i

The 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit is taking place virtually on March 23-25. With expert speakers from the FDA, BiomX, Cytophage, Loughborough University and Eligo Bioscience, join us online to progress fundamental bacteriophage research

Next week is Phage Futures 2021 (Feb 24-26)! Jessica and Jan of Phage Directory will be there, along with two dedicated social media assistants, Curtis Hoffmann and Atif Khan, to help keep you all in the loop via Twitter! (Another of our vo

Registration is open for (online) VEGA, Viral EcoGenomics & Applications, 2021. Hosted by the JGI, the goal of this series of online seminars is to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture a

Phage/Virus Assembly 2021 will take place online July 27-30. Register here!

[Date change!] The sixth iVoM event will be Thursday, Mar 4, 11AM GMT (note earlier time than usual too!), and the theme will be "Biotechnology applications in health care". It will feature talks by: Laurent Debarbieux: Phages (in)action i

Prof. Mansel Griffiths (University of Guelph) and Dr. Hany Anany (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph Research and Development Center) are editing a special issue of Viruses entitled "Bacteriophages in Food Applications".

Call for papers for our special issue topic in Microorganisms, "Bacteriophages-Based Technologies for a One Health Society: Applications in Clinical, Veterinary, and Industrial Settings". Guest editors: Dr. Karen D. Weynberg, Dr. Sabrina Gr

A year ago on Twitter, Jeremy Barr (Monash University) shared a picture of several 40-year old phage stocks, and asked "what should we do with them?" People said 'check titre!' 'get WGS' and 'are they the same as the stock phages we've all

Phages are generally described as species-specific or even strain-specific, but how often do we really check? Daniel Cazares (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) and colleagues pitted phages against a diverse collection of 600

Ali Khalid (Westmead Institute of Medical Research) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology entitled A Phage Therapy Guide for Clinicians and Basic Scientists: Background and Highlighting Applications for Developin

Elhanan Tzipilevich (Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that bacteria elicit a transient phage tolerance response subsequent to infection of their neighbors!

Quentin Lamy-Besnier (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues have created a Viral Host Range database, a tool that they built to gather, analyze and search experimental host-range information. They hope this will help leverage the experimental ho

We're compiling the results of our State of Phage 2020 Survey, and we're excited to show you a second snapshot of the findings! Today we're focusing on strain collections; which bacterial species are phage labs collecting, how many do they

Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France) is hiring a bioinformatics intern to help build, test and run a bioinformatics pipelines to help Eligo’s team engineer phages to target specific bacteria in the microbiome.

PhagoMed (Vienna, Austria) is looking for a (junior) researcher to join their team, which is developing synthetic phage lysins against chronic indications with high medical need.

This issue was sponsored by Kisaco Research for Phage Futures 2021.

The marine picophytoplankton ecology group at Linneaus University (Kalmar, Sweden) is hiring a postdoc fellow for a project investigating cyanophages infecting Synechococcus.