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Mpho Defney Maje (North-West University, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper on pathogenic, antibiotic-resistant Vibrio species found in drinking water, along with their isolation of two lytic phages that could be exploited f

A new episode of The Economist podcast investigated how viruses shape the world through interviews with Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR and Steffanie Strathdee on phage therapy.

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team (IBRT, one of 3 undergraduate phage research programs in sub-Saharan Africa) has started recruiting incoming clinical undergrads at the University of Ibadan for its SEA-PHAGES phage research program.

This month, we hosted two episodes of PHAVES! Here's your recap of both, along with links to the recordings. Thanks very much to our special guests, Pranav Johri, Apurva Virmani Johri, and Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens. This month, we hosted two

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Joint Genome Institute Division has an opening for a computational biologist postdoctoral scholar to lead comparative analyses of multi ‘omics datasets to address questions regarding microbial and viral geno

The Malik lab at the University of Loughborough (Loughborough, UK) is hiring a PhD student to work on microencapsulation of biological food additives to improve animal nutrition. (The Malik lab works on phage manufacturing and formulation (

The Lieberman lab at MIT (which studies human microbiome colonization, phages included) is hiring a research scientist to develop in-house genomic pipelines into widely-used community resources, conduct original research, and build systems

We are urgently seeking Chryseobacterium indologenes phages for a patient in Europe. Ways to help at this stage: - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By helping s

Phage Directory is exploring a new opportunity related to phage sharing, and we're looking to hear from the phage community! Phage biotech companies are seeking to expand their phage collections (for therapeutics and biocontrol), and we're

Save the date for PHAVES, which continues Sep 1 at 6 PM EST (GMT-4), 8 AM Sept 2 AEST. (Welcome Australia and NZ! We moved the time for this one, so you won't be asleep!) Dr. Sabrina Green of Baylor College of Medicine and BCM TAILOR Labs w

The 2nd Hanson Wade Bacteriophage Therapy Summit takes place (virtually) Aug 27-28, and registration is open! On the Thursday afternoon of the conference, we'll present our vision of how to use technology to scale up phage therapy.

The KITP Bacteriophage Forum continues (virtually) Aug 25 at noon Pacific: Luciano Marrafini (Rockefeller/HHMI) and Paul Turner (Yale) will speak. Register here.

The Pathogens journal has opened a Special Issue about "host-pathogens interactions and phage therapy". — Gabriel Almeida

Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems on their development of a new technology platform that enables on-demand phage production through computationally identifying

Menglu Li (Anhui University, China) and colleagues published a new paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics describing PredPHI (Predicting Phage-Host Interactions), a new deep learning-based tool for predic

Aurélie Fluckiger (Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, France) and colleagues published a new paper in Science showing cross-reactivity between tumor antigens and the tape measure protein encoded by an Enterococcus hirae prophage. Administering e

US phage therapy company Adaptive Phage Therapeutics has received a $9.8-million Department of Defense Award to develop phage-based vaccine candidates against SARS-CoV-2.

The Austrian phage therapy company PhagoMed has been selected as a Gold Track company (one of 5) by EIT Health, the premier biotech acceleration program in Europe.

We are urgently seeking Chryseobacterium indologenes phages for a patient in Europe. Ways to help at this stage: - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By helping s

This week, Dr. Rohit Kongari interviewed Dr. Vivek Mutalik of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory about his journey to become a phage researcher, and how he's using his engineering background and penchant to develop tools to answer questi