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Thanks so much to the labs who reached out in response to our request for Serratia phages last week. In just a few days, the strain was shipped out to the first set of labs for testing. A few days after that, an active phage was found (by R

Join Jean-Paul Pirnay, PhD, Gina Suh, MD, and Nicholas Chia, PhD Nov 30, 2020 12:00 PM Central time for an engaging virtual discussion on phage therapy as a tool in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections. The talk is entitled "Ba

We are urgently seeking Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) E. coli phages for a cystic fibrosis 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 an

We are urgently seeking Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) E. coli phages for a cystic fibrosis 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 an

This week, Tolulope Oduselu and Olubusuyi Adewumi of the Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team describe their recently-launched initiative to foster research participation for undergraduate students at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. A te

The University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) is hiring a postdoc to study phages that infect a member of the Roseobacter lineage of marine bacteria.

The Jaschke lab at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) has an opening for a PhD student to work within a multidisciplinary team on a cutting-edge NHMRC-funded project at the intersection of synthetic biology and phage therapy: engineer

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

Good day! I am a 3rd year Medical Technology student from the Philippines and we are currently looking for MS2 Escherichia coli bacteriophage for our thesis project. I hope you can help me to look for the above said bacteriophage sample. Th

The African Phage Forum is a new collaborative network of African phage researchers to promote and sensitize phage research in Africa, created by Dr. Emmanuel Nnadi, Dr. Rita Nakayinga, and Dr. Juliah Khayeli. They aim to motivate and mento

We have started a small association in Switzerland called phageSuisse to bring different actors of phage therapy in Switzerland together. With this association, we launched a small webinar series. The first webinar will be on December 1st b

Earlier this month we posted that Adaptive Phage Therapeutics received emergency FDA authorization to treat a group of COVID-19 patients in Texas with A. baumannii infections. Now, they've received expanded access authorization to use their

Ruby Lin (Wesmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published a Nature Microbiology blog post on their work toward establishing an Australian Phage Network. This post follows up on their Nature Microbiology paper fro

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano and Jeremy Barr (Monash University) published a new perspective in Current Opinion in Biotechnology entitled "Unlocking the next generation of phage therapy: the key is in the receptors". They argue that identif

Check out this ID Hub podcast, where Juandem Agendia and Sarah Alexander of the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC, UK) discuss phages, the function of the NCTC, and the importance of depositing phages in the NCTC collection to impr

Britt Koskella (Associate Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley) has received the Fleming Prize from the Microbiology Society (awarded to an early career researcher who has achieved an outstanding resear

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We are urgently seeking Serratia marcescens phages for a patient. 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 strain and usi

We are urgently seeking Serratia marcescens phages for a patient. 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 strain and usi

For this week's feature article, Rodrigo Monteiro and Graça Pinto interviewed University of Wroclaw Professor Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa about her phage therapy and phage depolymerase enzyme research. She shares how she navigates complex grant pro