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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

Siân Owen, Harvard University Hello everyone, Due to pesky eukaryotic viruses, next week’s PFU meeting will be postponed. On the bright side, last week we received some funding from New England Biolabs to continue catering the meetings, so

Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany has an open PhD position for a plant-bacteria-phage interaction project.

The Max Rubner-Institute in Kiel, Germany is hiring a scientist/microbiologist to work on genetics and systematics of virulent and temperate phages, as well as isolation of novel phages from environmental and human faecal samples.

Apply for an MSc student position at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, PL): projects relate to developing a toolkit for modulation of virion stability using phages as models.

An early stage biotechnology company in Gaithersburg, MD is hiring an experienced microbiologist/phage biologist to join a team developing phage therapies.

Siân Owen, Harvard University Hello everyone, Due to pesky eukaryotic viruses, next week’s PFU meeting will be postponed. On the bright side, last week we received some funding from New England Biolabs to continue catering the meetings, so

Karen Kormuth, Bethany College I'm hoping to use Phi6 and MS2 as a surrogate model system for studying infectious disease transmission. I previously worked at Pitt on influenza viruses, so I'm new to the phage community. Because we're such

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

Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany has an open PhD position for a plant-bacteria-phage interaction project.

An early stage biotechnology company in Gaithersburg, MD is hiring an experienced microbiologist/phage biologist to join a team developing phage therapies.

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

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

Karen Kormuth, Bethany College I'm hoping to use Phi6 and MS2 as a surrogate model system for studying infectious disease transmission. I previously worked at Pitt on influenza viruses, so I'm new to the phage community. Because we're such

The Max Rubner-Institute in Kiel, Germany is hiring a scientist/microbiologist to work on genetics and systematics of virulent and temperate phages, as well as isolation of novel phages from environmental and human faecal samples.

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.

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

Apply for an MSc student position at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, PL): projects relate to developing a toolkit for modulation of virion stability using phages as models.

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

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