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A Madison, Wisconsin company is hiring a scientist (culture development) for research into lactic acid bacteria in food fermentation. An understanding of phage management is essential.

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 Faculty of Biology and Medicine and the Lausanne University Hospital (Lausanne, Switzerland) are hiring a senior lecturer in the field of phage therapy / bacteriophages.

Phage Directory It's almost time for PHAVES: Phage Directory Virtual Event Series! (The acronym was too good; how could we not?) Save the date for June 16 at 8 AM Pacific Time (GMT-7) (details to come). And we're keeping signups open on a

Got phage protocols, or wish you did? The community can probably help! Here's an example from Twitter: "Hey, I'm working on phages and need to extract phage dna for characterization. Would you recommend Zymo kit for extraction? If not, whi

Last month, Cellexus installed a Dual CellMaker system for FixedPhage, who will use this system to produce phages designed to protect flowers, so people can enjoy longer lasting bouquets. To find out how the CellMaker can improve your phage

Could phage therapy target bacterial meningitis? Christian Møller-Olsen (University of Warwick, UK) and colleagues have shown that phage K1F can infect E. coli within cerebral endothelial cells without eliciting an inflammatory response. Th

Hans Gerstmans (Ghent University, Belgium) and colleagues published a new paper in Science Advances on a VersaTile-driven platform for rapid hit-to-lead development of engineered lysins. Stay tuned; next week's feature article will be a beh

Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Belgium) lays out a vision for what personalized phage therapy might look like in the year 2035. His vision coincidentally also happens to lay out much of Phage Directory’s own roadmap!

David Olivenza (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) and colleagues published a new paper in Environmental Microbiology on a fascinating new epigenetic system that can detect a wide range of phages and identify the type of receptor they recognize

Shannon Slattery (University of Limerick, Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientific Reports describing the isolation of a Proteus mirabilis strain from wastewater harbouring an integrative conjugative element (ICE) contain

Ahmed Sofy (Al-Azhar University, Egypt) and colleagues published a new paper in Foods on their use of a polyvalent phage to successfully control coagulase-negative Staphylococcus strains (including biofilm dispersal) in a food setting.

A postdoc position is available at APC Microbiome Ireland in the Gut Phageomics Laboratory.

Contrafect, a company in New York City developing phage lysins as therapeutics, is hiring a senior research associate.

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

Continuing the new, once-monthly Capsid & Tail format we started in April, this week we're rounding up an extra helping of May 2020's phage news. In place of a feature article this week, we're highlighting the three features we published th

Register for an upcoming virtual event on AMR and the requirement for a new business model for antimicrobials, hosted by members of European Parliament (June 4 at 12pm CET). Includes a talk by Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospita

A PhD position on modulation of virion stability is available at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (Polish Academy of Sciences) in Warsaw, Poland.

A postdoc position (funded by ERC Research) on virus-virus interactions and experimental evolution is available in the Sanjuan Lab at the University of Valencia, Spain. Contact rafael.sanjuan@uv.es.

A bioinformatician/data steward position related to metagenomics and phage-host interactions is available at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands.