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Elections for the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM) Officers will take place in October 2020. We are still looking for more candidates who wish to serve on the ISVM Board and are extending the candidate application

Apply for the Viruses Young Investigator Award to win 2000 Swiss Francs, an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Viruses (subject to peer review), an engraved plaque, and an invitation to speak at the Viruses

Diana Grubb (Colorado State University) and colleagues tested a phage prebiotic produced by Deerland Enzymes (Kennesaw, Georgia) in a placebo-controlled human clinical study, and found that administration of a phage cocktail alongside a bac

DuPont Animal Nutrition announced a partnership with Proteon Pharmaceuticals toward development of phage technology for poultry producers.

Marion Bichet (Monash University) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that phage uptake by Eukaryotic cell layers represents a major sink for phages during therapy. Check out Marion's accompanying Twitter thread here!

Alan Fauconnier (Culture In Vivo ASBL) and colleagues at Phages for Global Health and the Queen Astrid Military Hospital published a new perspective in Frontiers in Microbiology on the role the WHO could play in implementing phage therapy,

Andrzej Górski (Polish Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a new perspective in Future Medicine discussing phages in the fight against COVID-19. They describe research done in the last 15 years pointing to phage interference with

The next rendition of PHAVES will be a seminar with Dr. Panos Kalatzis (University of Copenhagen) on Sept 22 at 11:00 AM Eastern / 5:00 PM (GMT+2). Panos will tell us about the potential of phage therapy in aquaculture. Small group networki

We are urgently seeking Acinetobacter baumannii phages for a patient in Switzerland. 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

This week, two PharmD students from different countries, Christine Thompson (USA) and Yasmine Bendimrad (Morocco), share their views on pharmacists' roles in antimicrobial stewardship and how phages could fit into their scope as future infe

Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) is hiring a postdoctoral appointee to study the interaction of bacteria with noble gases, to use phage-assisted continuous evolution to evolve proteins for biosensing applications, and to engin

The Antson lab at the University of York (York, UK) is hiring a Research Associate in Structural Virology to investigate the mechanism of DNA packaging by a motor found in a large group of dsDNA viruses, which includes tailed phages and evo

Need help with phage manufacturing, and looking for an outsourcing partner? JAFRAL manufactures phages to the highest quality and purity, and develops manufacturing processes and analytical methods for various phage types and phage applicat

The first iVoM event will be Sept. 17 at 11:00 AM GMT, under the theme "Ecology and evolution of microbial viruses". It will feature talks by: - Rob Edwards (Flinders University, Australia) - Ruth-Anne Sandaa (University of Bergen, Norway)

Phages for Global Health is doing fantastic things in the phage field — they've trained phage researchers in developing countries who've collectively gone on to win hundreds of thousands in grant money within just a couple of years! If you

Phage Oxford will take place September 9-10. Register here! The meeting will feature over 20 oral presentations by an international faculty of senior & junior researchers from across the world, covering phage molecular and structural biolo

Tiffany Luong (San Diego State University) and colleagues published a new phage therapy review in Clinical Therapeutics. They summarize the increasing body of clinical data on phage therapy (including a nice visual showing the pathogens pha

Kathy Lam (UCSF) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that M13 phage (engineered to express CRISPR-Cas9) can deplete specific strains of E. coli colonizing the mouse gut. They also used this system to create genetic deletions in

Andrew Favor (University of California, Berkeley and Nextbiotics, a California phage biotech company) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientific Reports on the new directed evolution-based phage engineering platform they've develope

Linyi Gao (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA) and colleagues published a new paper in Science describing their discovery of 29 new phage-protective gene cassettes, many of which incorporate enzymatic activities not previously i