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This week we introduced a new channel: #phage-manufacturing; come here to discuss anything related to scale-up of phage preparations (challenges, opportunities, questions, helpful papers, etc). In March, we introduced a #covid-amr channel

Phages for Global Health's newsletter is out (subscribe here). They announce they've acquired the funding for their first phage workshop in Asia, set to take place in Malaysia in November 2020 if the COVID situation allows.

Simon Roux (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues published a new preprint on diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs), which were first identified in a phage host recognition protein. They analyzed >30,000 metagenome-derived DGRs, an

This Science news article talks about COVID-related increases in antibiotic use, possible impacts on AMR, and mentions a multicenter US Department of Defense study that will look into secondary infections and antibiotic use in COVID patient

Odyssey Systems Consulting Group is looking to hire a Senior Microbiologist/Phage Biologist to work on bacteriophages and microbial pathogens of military relevance at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. US citizenship required.

University of Waterloo researchers are working toward a phage-delivered COVID vaccine. The vaccine is designed to both produce virus-like particles that will stimulate an anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response, and also to bind to SARS-CoV-2 recep

Viruses of Microbes 2020 will be postponed by one year: the proposed new dates are 05-09 July 2021. Read more at www.vom2020.org.

This week, Graça Pinto and Rodrigo Monteiro bring us a Q&A with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens about her career studying phages and viromes, her thoughts on manipulating microbiomes with viruses, and how viral classification is changing. Universi

Simon Roux (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues published a new preprint on diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs), which were first identified in a phage host recognition protein. They analyzed >30,000 metagenome-derived DGRs, an

Susana Costa (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a paper in Scientific Reports on developing a novel flow cytometry assay for detection of Staphylococcus in blood culture samples based on phage-derived proteins. Utilizi

Franck Bouchart (Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) and colleagues published an interdisciplinary paper in Materials Science and Engineering: C showing the potential of 3D-printed calcium phosphate-based ceramics filled with phage cocktai

Researchers at Wayne State University led by Dr. Lobelia Samavati have secured a grant worth $1.98 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) to develop a novel T7 phage display te

This Science news article talks about COVID-related increases in antibiotic use, possible impacts on AMR, and mentions a multicenter US Department of Defense study that will look into secondary infections and antibiotic use in COVID patient

University of Waterloo researchers are working toward a phage-delivered COVID vaccine. The vaccine is designed to both produce virus-like particles that will stimulate an anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response, and also to bind to SARS-CoV-2 recep

The last time we were at a conference, it was Phage Futures Congress 2020 (Feb 5-6, 2020). Since we're all working from home, it's a perfect time to reflect back on the phage development community's recent progress. In attending this year's

Do you want to contribute to identifying and understanding viruses? Apply now for a PhD position in Viral Metagenomics for One Health in Bas Dutilh's group at Utrecht University.

Do you want to contribute to identifying and understanding viruses? Apply now for a PhD position in Viral Metagenomics for One Health in Bas Dutilh's group at Utrecht University.

Bas Dutilh (Utrecht University) is looking for a Bioinformatician/Data Steward: use metagenomics to help answer questions related to the microbiome, such as predicting bacteriophage-host interactions.

Karen Weynberg (University of Queensland) is hiring a PhD student for a project that aims to further the use of phage therapy by establishing an innovative synthetic biology platform to engineer phage therpay candidates within a biofoundry.