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In celebration of our 100th issue of Capsid & Tail, we launched a survey called State of Phage 2020! We created this survey to help us all better understand the phage research community globally, including what kind of phages people are col

The Bordenstein lab at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) is hiring a postdoc to study selfish phage genes and symbionts in Drosophila.

The Reynolds lab at UWE Bristol (Bristol, UK) is hiring a PhD student to study the efficacy of antimicrobial aerosols through the development of a phage-based model.

The International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms has announced their newly elected executive board members for 2021-2022! Congratulations to Rob Lavigne (President), Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa (President-elect), Andrew Millard (Vice-Presid

Contrary to what we announced last week, we've had to postpone PHAVES 11 with Dr. Iredell until 2021. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up! We'll see you back in the new year for season 2 — thanks for an awesome first 10 episodes in 2020! Reg

The 23rd Congress of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) will be held in Boise, Idaho from 22nd to 26th May 2021. The scientific agenda is focusing on the current understanding of pulmonary disease, viral transmission

Eleanor Townsend and Eleanor Jameson (University of Warwick) are editing a special issue titled “Phage-Host Interaction in the Gut Microbiome and Their Impacts on Human Health and Disease” in MDPI’s International Journal of Environmental Re

BiomX analyzed a set of colorectal cancer tumour samples from patients, and found that 80% contained Fusobacterium nucleatum, which BiomX has been engineering phages to target. BiomX's phages are designed to deliver payloads that make tumou

UC San Diego has detailed the journey to recovery of another patient who has benefitted from the use of phage therapy. The case involved Maria Madrigal, a polycystic kidney disease (and kidney transplant) patient who suffered from recurrent

Katarzyna Danis-Wlodarczyk (Ohio State University) and colleagues published a new preprint on the antagonistic effect of colistin and ciprofloxacin on bactericidal, bacteriolytic, and virion-production activities of P. aeruginosa podovirus

Diana Pires (University of Minho) and colleagues published a review article describing the present-day challenges and opportunities in phage therapy, by analyzing the outcomes of trials and case reports done to date. Along with the current

Tolulope Oduselu (Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team, University of Ibadan) and colleagues recently published their second review article entitled "Expanding the Frontiers of Bacterial Diagnosis through Bacteriophage Biotechnology". They re

This week, we're highlighting the four feature articles we published in November: two interviews, a guest blog post, and a recap of the month's PHAVES event! In this month's Capsid & Tail Monthly Round Up issue, we're highlighting the three

Clara Torres-Barceló (Plant Pathology Institute, INRAE, Avignon, France) has an opening for an 18-month contract as research assistant to work on the project "Characterisation of Erwinia amylovora phages in order to develop a biocontrol too

The Blower group at Durham University (Durham, UK) is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbiology and Biochemistry to investigate BREX and phage-bacteria interactions.

In celebration of our 100th issue of Capsid & Tail, we launched a survey called State of Phage 2020! We created this survey to help us all better understand the phage research community globally, including what kind of phages people are col

ContraFect (Yonkers, New York), a clinical-stage biotech company focused on discovery and development of protein therapeutics (including phage lysins) is hiring a Director of Research Laboratory.

The fourth iVoM event will be Thursday, December 17, 7pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms". Talks: - New discoveries on the immune system of bacteria — Rotem Sorek - The regulation and activity of Cl

My name is Tom Ireland and I'm a science writer based in the UK working on a popular-science book about phages. Under contract with a major publisher, the book aims to bring the wonder of phages to a mass audience, telling the fascinating h

The fourth iVoM event will be Thursday, December 17, 7pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms". Talks: - New discoveries on the immune system of bacteria — Rotem Sorek - The regulation and activity of Cl