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Jiawei Wang (Monash University) and colleagues published a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research describing AcrHub: an integrative hub for investigating, predicting and mapping anti-CRISPR proteins.

Jolene Ramsey (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in PLoS Computational Biology describing Galaxy and Apollo as a biologist-friendly interface for high-quality cooperative phage genome annotation. Researchers can use

Katie Bodner (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new paper in STAR Protocols showing how to engineer phages for live-cell imaging of prophage induction inside mammalian cells.

Yu Lin (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics showing storage stability of phage-ciprofloxacin combination powders against Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infections. The

PhageOption 2020 will take place at Universidad de los Andes, Cartagena, Colombia from November 4-6, 2020. The conference will focus on the role phages can play in controlling MDR bacteria in human and agriculture fields. Organizers: Resear

This week, we're highlighting the three feature articles we published in October: an interview, a guest blog post, and a recap of the two PHAVES events we hosted this month. Enjoy! In place of a feature article this week, we're highlighting

Interested in a career in quantitative biology? Georgia Institute of Technology's unique QBioS graduate program is accepting applicants for next year's cohort (apply by Dec 1, 2020). This program aims to train students to identify principle

The Hill lab at the APC Microbiome in Cork, Ireland is hiring a postdoc to study the molecular interactions (especially host recognition and DNA injection) between a model phage and its host, Lactococcus lactis.

The non-profit organization Emily's Entourage is looking for an experienced, passionate and entrepreneurial scientist to lead research and development activities as a full-time Chief Scientific Officer. This is a unique chance to help lead

Looking for viruses in your microbiome data? KBase has new Apps to identify and analyze viral sequences in your assemblies. Join this webinar on Nov. 4 at 1pm ET/10am PT to learn the basics of viral analysis in KBase from Dr. Ben Bolduc of

Patients in India in need of phage therapy used to have to ship their samples internationally for phage susceptibility testing, which was a dealbreaker for even phage-friendly doctors as this was slow and expensive. Now, they can do it loca

Dutch phage biotech company Micreos has signed a license agreement with L'Oréal — this means L'Oréal can incorporate Micreos' phage lysins into its products, and represents a huge milestone for phage biotech making its way into the mainstre

There is currently no working treatment for recurring bacterial vaginosis (BV). Christine Landlinger (PhagoMed Biopharma GmbH) and colleagues published a new preprint in medRxiv showing that their engineered phage endolysin candidate elimin

Long-read genome sequencing suffers from high DNA requirements and sequencing errors, so Olivier Zablocki (Ohio State University) and colleagues developed VirION2, an integrated short- and long-read metagenomic wet-lab and informatics pipel

Do you consider a virus-like particle (VLP) to be a particle that looks like a virus, or is it a virus specifically lacking a viral genome? Different fields (e.g. ecology vs. vaccine development) use the term differently. Paul Hyman, Gary T

This month, we hosted two episodes of PHAVES! Here are the recordings, along with brief summaries. Thanks very much to our special guests, Gordon Smith (Fixed Phage), Chloe Jerrold-Jones (Cellexus), and Dr. Rodrigo Ibarra-Chavez (University

This issue was sponsored by Cellexus, which pioneers revolutionary, market leading single-use airlift bioreactor systems and technology. Email enquiries@cellexus.com for more info.

Thanks to everyone who voted on the day they'd prefer to receive Capsid & Tail! The results are in: 71% Friday, 18% Monday, 6% Tuesday, 6% Thursday. So we'll be sticking with Friday, at least for now!

PHAVES #10 will be a seminar by Dr. Paul Jaschke, Assistant Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, on Nov. 10, 5:30 PM Eastern Time (GMT-4) / Nov. 11 at 9:30 AM AEST. His talk is entitled "Learning How to Engineer Genomes by Building

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) has received Orphan drug designation from the FDA for the use of its PhageBank™ (a continually expanding library of phages) to treat prosthetic joint infections. APT will now be eligible for seven years of