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We are urgently seeking Burkholderia cepacia phages for a 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 and testing your phages - By helping spread t

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia cepacia phages for a 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 and testing your phages - By helping spread t

A 2020 paper in PHAGE evaluates methods for processing sputum from patients with cystic fibrosis to detect Pf bacteriophage virion-derived nucleic acid, testing the effect of bead beating, DNase digestion and heating steps and quantifying P

This week, Prof. Yves Briers of Ghent University in Belgium takes us behind the scenes of his group's new paper on an efficient new way of engineering thousands of phage lysins at once. This article takes us behind the scenes of this pape

The Weitz group at Georgia Tech is hiring a Scientific Project Coordinator and Data Communication Specialist to help their group advance, communicate, and share discoveries of how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet. A

Phage Directory We're excited to announce that we've launched an ongoing sponsorship program for Phage Directory's community building activities, and we have our first Bronze Sponsor: JAFRAL! JAFRAL is the world's only CMO/CRO dedicated pr

Phage Directory Phage Directory's Virtual Event Series, PHAVES, starts this Tuesday, June 16 at 9:00 AM MDT (GMT-6)! For the kickoff event, Jessica and Jan will introduce the virtual series and Phage Directory's projects for 2020, and we'll

Atiwich Patthamapornsirikul My name is Atiwich and I am graduated from Horticultural Science at University of Bologna. I am a prospect Ph.D. student at Plant Pathology, INRAe PACA, Avignon, France, in the research project entitled “Building

International Bacteriophage Research Consortium We are very pleased to have Prof. Graham Hatfull share his inspiring body of work on mycobacteriophages through live in discussion with us. Graham Hatfull’s research focuses on the molecular g

Muhammad Sohail, Conference Director 09-10 September 2020 http://lpmhealthcare.com/phages-2020-virtual/ Twitter: @PhageOxford; Hashtag: #PhgOx20V Email: PhageOxford@gmail.com The themes and focus of the meeting will be all aspects of bacte

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the fifth episode of All About Phage Therapy, we talked with Dr Aradhana Vipra, head of microbiology and Dr Jagadeesh Bhat, senior scientific manager at India's first phage research company, GangaGen Biotechnologies

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and the Mayo Clinic have announced a collaboration to commercialize a phage susceptibility test. The test will enable rapid identification of patient-specific phages for therapy (based on screening hundreds of ca

Charlotte Brives (CNRS, France) and Jessica Pourraz (Université de Bordeaux) published an anthropologist's take on the field of phage therapy. This paper digs into how the way we think about and develop antibiotics continues to inhibit phag

Ronen Hazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues at the Hadassah Medical Center have been awarded an Israel Precision Medicine Partnership grant to pursue their phage therapy program. So far they've banked 300 phages and have tre

The Skurnik group at the Unviersity of Helsinki recently published three phage papers in Viruses! The papers span Yersinia phages, Acinetobacter phages, and Klebsiella phages, and between them they cover lytic, temperate and even "non-seque

Dragica Damnjanovic (UNSW Sydney) and colleagues published a paper in BMC Microbiology on phage genotyping using repetitive-PCR, a rapid and inexpensive method to preliminarily screen phage isolates prior to selecting them for future studie

Kristopher Kieft and colleagues (University of Wisconsin-Madison) published a new paper in Microbiome about VIBRANT, a new hybrid machine learning and protein similarity approach for automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial

Rafael Gonzalez-Serrano (Universidad Miguel Hernández) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems describing an Alteromonas-targeting phage representing a new marine myovirus genus. They also determined that this phage requires a tail

Taylor Miller-Ensminger (Loyola University, Chicago) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS ONE introducing Lu-1, a novel Lactobacillus jensenii phage abundant in the urogenital tract.

Dr. Ritah Nakayinga attended the 4th Phages for Global Health workshop in Tanzania this year. This week she shares her experience at the workshop, its impact on her research, and the importance of phage training like this in East Africa. Th