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Vulcan Biologics (Boston, MA) is developing novel in situ microbiome modulating technologies through the use of bacteriophages. They're hiring a senior scientist (microbiology), who will be instrumental in establishing and executing the mic

Odyssey Systems is hiring multiple positions for a Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) contract related to phage therapy: a senior molecular phage biologist and a microbiology research technician level II and level IV.

This week, Capsid & Tail's volunteer editor Dr. Rohit Kongari talks to UCSF's Dr. Adair Borges about the unexpected connection she's uncovered between phage anti-CRISPRs and the Pseudomonas alginate pathway. This week, Dr. Rohit Kongari bri

The phage community wants virtual events! We're working hard on answering that call. You can now apply to present your research, or nominate a speaker, topic or format via email: events@phage.directory. Formats we're considering: traditio

James Doub (University of Maryland School of Medicine) and colleagues published their successful eradication of a 72-year-old man's prosthetic joint infection with phage therapy, which was done alongside Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and the

What happens to the bystanders of a phage-host interaction? Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage infection induces the type 7 secretion system in Enterococcus f

Shweta Karambelkar (Indian Institute of Science) and colleagues published a interesting report on how phage Mu uniquely protects its DNA from diverse host defense systems in Nucleic Acids Research. They characterized Mu's "Mom" protein, whi

Oliver Bezuidt (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems that sheds light on Antarctic phage-host interactions. Their metagenomic analysis picked up DISARM, BREX and CRISPR-Cas defense systems i

Andrej Balaz (Geneton Ltd, Slovakia) and colleagues published a preprint describing PHERI, a phage host exploration tool that uses a machine learning algorithm to predict the host of a phage based on its sequence. Preprint | Application dow

Metagenomics is enabling discovery of millions of new viral sequences, but no tools previously existed to estimate their quality. Stephen Nayfach (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues created CheckV, an automated pipeline for assessin

Jason Schrad (Michigan State University) and colleagues published a structural characterization in Cell (through cryoEM, cryoET, and SEM) of how giant virus infection is initiated. They also use proteomics to identify proteins released from

The phage community wants virtual events! We're working hard on answering that call. You can now apply to present your research, or nominate a speaker, topic or format via Slack or email: events@phage.directory. Formats we're considering:

Oliver Bezuidt (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems that sheds light on Antarctic phage-host interactions. Their metagenomic analysis picked up DISARM, BREX and CRISPR-Cas defense systems i

James Doub (University of Maryland School of Medicine) and colleagues published their successful eradication of a 72-year-old man's prosthetic joint infection with phage therapy, which was done alongside Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and the

What happens to the bystanders of a phage-host interaction? Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage infection induces the type 7 secretion system in Enterococcus f

Stuart MacNeill at the University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland), is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work on a molecular microbiology project related to understanding the unusual biology of phage T5.

Maria Cambraia Guimaro, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County I am a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate working for STEM BUILD, an undergraduate success initiative investigating ways to enhance the diversity and success of STEM student

Submissions are open to the special issue of the journal Viruses, "Viruses of Microbes 2020: The Latest Conquests on Viruses of Microbes". This issue is associated with the 2021 meeting from the International Society of Viruses of Microbes

Metagenomics is enabling discovery of millions of new viral sequences, but no tools previously existed to estimate their quality. Stephen Nayfach (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues created CheckV, an automated pipeline for assessin

Submissions are open to the special issue of the journal Viruses, "Viruses of Microbes 2020: The Latest Conquests on Viruses of Microbes". This issue is associated with the 2021 meeting from the International Society of Viruses of Microbes