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Dear colleagues, We are working towards the VoM2020, which is planned to take place on the 13-17 July, in the consideration that the situation will be solved by that occasion. The Organizing Committee is naturally closely monitoring the si

Dear colleagues, We are working towards the VoM2020, which is planned to take place on the 13-17 July, in the consideration that the situation will be solved by that occasion. The Organizing Committee is naturally closely monitoring the si

Adelaide Almeida, University of Aveiro The journal Microorganisms has a special phage issue open called "Bacteriophage Treatment as an Alternative Technology to Inactivate Pathogenic Bacteria: A Generalized Worldwide Growing Acceptance". Gu

Adelaide Almeida, University of Aveiro The journal Microorganisms has a special phage issue open called "Bacteriophage Treatment as an Alternative Technology to Inactivate Pathogenic Bacteria: A Generalized Worldwide Growing Acceptance". Gu

This week, a group of researchers led by Dr. Anthony Maresso at Baylor College of Medicine describe their new initiative, TAILΦR, which makes phages tailored to patients' infections. ## How did you first get involved with phage research? Wh

Carmen Gu Liu (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on phage-antibiotic synergy. They've created a comprehensive method for evaluating synergism, additivism, and antagonism for all antibiotic classes, (they're

Paul Kirchberger (UT Austin) and colleagues published a new paper in eLife showing the resurrection of Gokushoviruses, barely-understood single-stranded DNA phages found in metagenomic datasets worldwide, in an experimentally tractable mode

Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio investigating Enterococcus faecalis interactions with a virulent phage. They highlight roles for polysaccharide antigens and DNA mi

Abul Tarafder (University of Oxford) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS showing how the phage Pf4 forms a sheath made of liquid crystalline droplets around its host, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which protects it from antibiotics and more.

Patrick Secor (University of Montana) and colleagues published a review on Pf phages and what we know so far about their impacts on Pseudomonas virulence, immunity and chronic infections.

Reminder: thinking of submitting an abstract for Viruses of Microbes 2020 in Portugal this July? The abstract deadline is coming up soon: March 16th!

STAT Madness has begun and there are 2 days left in round 1. Vote for the best biomedical innovations (in a "March Madness"-style format!). Phage therapy for alcoholic liver disease (UCSD) is in the running!

The first issue of Mary Ann Liebert's PHAGE journal is available now online.

The second meeting of Boston PFU (Phage Fanatics United) takes place March 19 at 5:30 pm at the Harvard Medical School Countway Medical Library. There will be food and two phage research talks (by Mia Liberman and Sian Owen). Doing phage wo

The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Alberta invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair tenure-track position at the assistant professor level. Seeking outstanding candidates with a strong re

The Edinburgh Institute of Zhejiang University is hiring a fully funded PhD position for a project on phage and phage therapy, involving both wet lab and bioinformatics.

The second meeting of Boston PFU (Phage Fanatics United) takes place March 19 at 5:30 pm at the Harvard Medical School Countway Medical Library. There will be food and two phage research talks (by Mia Liberman and Sian Owen). Doing phage wo

The Global Virome in Health and Disease Keystone Symposium happened this week, and there were many phage talks! Check out the hashtag #ksvirome on Twitter to catch up. And in the spirit of openness, Rob Edwards (SDSU) made his crAssphage pr

Important question: if I had a student who wanted to make an undomesticated bacteriophage mutant that could not make plaques, other than conditionally, is there a way other than bashing plaque isolates at two temperatures after random mutag

The University of Copenhagen is hiring a research assistant to work on a project that involves developing mathematical models for lactic acid bacteria phage development in dairy fermentations.