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Ever wondered about the biological function of genes that overlap with other genes? Bradley Wright (Macquarie University, Australia) and colleagues engineered the gene overlaps out of the φX174 phage genome and found that gene overlap was c

Charles Bernard (CNRS, France) and colleagues published a new paper in the ISME Journal describing their identification of a new communication system that may regulate host defense mechanisms (similar to the arbitrium system) in Bacillus ph

Emma Guerin and Colin Hill (APC Microbiome Ireland and University College Cork) published a new review on human gut phages in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. They discuss the main human gut phageome findings to date (incl.

Sensei Biotherapeutics has raised $28.5 million to advance their pipeline of personalized cancer drugs, one of which is an immunophage therapy that involves engineering lambda phage to display tumor-associated antigens, leading activated T

UMass is expanding its SEA-PHAGES undergraduate phage hunting program, with a goal of eventually replacing its traditional intro biology lab course with the SEA-PHAGES curriculum for all 1,200 students who participate each academic year.

Thanks to everyone who voted last week on which day they'd like to receive Capsid & Tail! The results are: 71% Friday, 18% Monday, 6% Tuesday, 6% Thursday. So we'll be keeping our release date as-is, at least for now!

For this week's feature article, Dr. Rohit Kongari interviewed Dr. Ben Burrowes, Senior Scientist at the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M University, about his path from phage PhD to industry scientist, to running his own consultanc

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, California) is hiring a trainee to study soil viromics and microbiology.

The Institute de Biologie Structurale (Grenoble, France) is hiring a postdoc to study, by cryo-electron microscopy, the mechanisms of host recognition and inhibition of E. coli phage T5.

The University of Iowa is hiring an Assistant Professor of Bacteriology.

Armata Pharmaceuticals (Marina del Rey, California) has several open positions to design, study and produce their next generation of phage therapeutics.

The Deng lab at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (Munich, Germany) has an opening for a PhD student to study how phages are functionally linked to their bacterial or archaeal hosts using experimental and bioinformatics approaches.

The Nugen lab at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) has an opening for a PhD student to work on a newly funded project on genetic engineering of Salmonella phages.

The next rendition of PHAVES will be a seminar with Rodrigo Ibarra Chavez on Oct 20 at 11AM Eastern / 5PM CEST. He'll tell us about phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs), piracy in the phage-world, and insights on their application in

It was a great week for microbiology; Nobel prizes were awarded for discovering CRISPR-Cas (Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna) and Hepatitis C (Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles Rice). The phage field should be especially pro

Saima Aslam (University of California, San Diego) and colleagues published a new paper in Open Forum Infectious Diseases showing the lessons the IPATH team has learned from their first 10 cases of IV phage therapy.

Sean Benler (NCBI) and colleagues published a new preprint on their identification of thousands of previously unknown phages in whole-community human gut metagenomes.

CARB-X is awarding the Indian phage biotech company GangaGen Biotechnologies up to $2.5 Million (with possibility of an additional $8.1 Million if milestones are met) to develop klebicins to treat Klebsiella pneumoniae.

All chapters of the recently-published textbook Bacteriophages: Biology, Technology, Therapy (edited by David Harper and colleagues) are now freely available online at this link.

Gabriella (Ella) Balasa, a cystic fibrosis (CF) patient who has received phage therapy, and her physician, Nauman Chaudary, have co-authored a unique perspective paper in Pulmonary Therapy about the experience and treatment of a CF patient.