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Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) is seeking experienced research staff in systems biology with experience in one of: phage biology; synthetic biology and synthetic genomes; microbial-host and community interactions; micr

We have a cow we suspect has Johne's disease (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis infection). Does anyone have phages for this bacteria that might also infect M. smegmatis? Currently, there is no treatment; vaccine was discontinued in US a

Germán Bonilla-Rosso (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS on the honey bee gut virome. They show that a diverse community of phages inhabits the bee gut, that these phages target core bee gut ba

Check out this episode of the Genome Insider podcast (by the Joint Genome Institute): Gary Trubl of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory talks about the wonders of viruses that live in soil and their potential impacts on greenhouse gas re

Tommi Vatanen, a senior research fellow at the University of Auckland-based Liggins Institute in New Zealand, will explore the role of gut phages in obesity with a new $300k Marsden Fund grant.

Elizabeth Burgener (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on methods for extracting and detecting phage DNA from CF patient sputum.

Zachary Barth (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing their use of RNA sequencing to study how a family of viral satellites interacts with the phages they parasitize. They found that the satellites manipulate invading

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced they will provide up to $5M to support Armata Pharmaceuticals in conducting a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial to test the safety and tolerability of phage therapy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in pe

In the spirit of social distancing and working from home, this week we're exploring some ideas and tools that enable online communities and allow teams to collaborate from around the world and to work from home. As more labs and offices are

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics just got FDA approval to test their expanding, polymicrobial phage library approach in the clinic. This is a big step, and shows that the FDA can be supportive of a personalized phage library approach to phage th

Phages are abundant in the gut, but few have been isolated and studied. Andrew Hryckowian (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint reporting the genomes of 27 Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron phages. By looking at host trop

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a sneak peek of an upcoming Cell paper from their lab: they've identified a phage-encoded "anti-activator" protein that disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing and pilus ass

Kurt Selle (Locus Biosciences) and colleagues, in collaboration with NC State University, have published a new paper in mBio showing that phage-delivered programmable CRISPR therapeutics (recombinant phage expressing host genome-targeting C

Cooperation, altruism, and cheating... how much do we know about how these interactions apply to phages and their hosts? Patrick Secor and Ajai Dandekar (University of Montana) have published a new mBio minireview on phage-host sociobiology

Wondering how many new species of viruses of microbes have been classified as of late? The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) just published their update on prokaryotic viral taxonomy for the last two years. Highlights in

Ella Balasa, who received phage therapy in 2019 (which she wrote about in Capsid & Tail earlier this year), has her own column in Cystic Fibrosis News Today called This Lung Life. Her newest article describes her participation in an FDA pan

Laura Sisk-Hackworth, an SDSU/UCSD student, wrote a blog post for the Roach Lab blog about a talk given by SDSU professor Rob Edwards as part of the IPATH seminar series about how crAssphage was discovered.

Looking for a new online teaching tool for virology classes? Check out this interactive Virus Explorer by HHMI, which lets you explore the diversity of viruses based on structure, genome type, host range, transmission mechanism, and vaccine

Phage Directory Attention student and postdoctoral phage biologists planning to present a talk or poster at Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this year! Phage Directory will be sponsoring two cash awards (350 Euro each) in collaboration

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a sneak peek of an upcoming Cell paper from their lab: they've identified a phage-encoded "anti-activator" protein that disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing and pilus ass