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Sadly, Dr Jim Hu, a founding member of the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M University, has passed away. He was great scientist, dedicated mentor, and valued member of CPT and TAMU. — Center for Phage Technology, Twitter Jim was pa

When doing a PEG precipitation of phages, some people (like me) use a PEG stock solution (20-30% w/v PEG in NaCl), whereas other people add the PEG powder directly to the sample. What are the pros and cons? — @EvelienAdri Check out the Twi

Professor Martha Clokie (University of Leicester) is hiring a full-time research associate to investigate phages against Salmonella strains associated with pigs and developing and testing phage products.

When doing a PEG precipitation of phages, some people (like me) use a PEG stock solution (20-30% w/v PEG in NaCl), whereas other people add the PEG powder directly to the sample. What are the pros and cons? — @EvelienAdri Check out the Twi

The Department of Food Science at Cornell University is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to carry out experiments and perform research on engineering phage: nanoparticle biocomposites for detection of pathogenic bacteria in a rang

Sadly, Dr Jim Hu, a founding member of the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M University, has passed away. He was great scientist, dedicated mentor, and valued member of CPT and TAMU. — Center for Phage Technology, Twitter Jim was pa

Phages are extremely diverse at the genetic level, but not so much at the structural level... why? In an informative new review, Moïra Dion (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues have explored phage diversity at the structural, genomic a

Apply to work as a Process Engineer in Marina del Rey, California. You'll support phage process development and manufacturing by identifying, procuring, and implementing manufacturing equipment required to produce bacteriophage drug product

We are seeking Achromobacter xylosoxidans phages for a patient. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By receiving the strain and using

We are seeking Streptococcus anginosus phages for a patient. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By receiving the strain and using it

Listen to Jeremy Barr of Monash University's take on phage therapy and how close we are to bringing it to patients at scale. 16 min.

Lance Boling (SDSU) and colleagues tested 117 consumable compounds (like toothpaste, Stevia, aspartame) for their ability to induce prophages from four bacterial species. They found that certain compounds induced prophages (some in a specie

A new monthly podcast called Superbugs Unplugged covers antimicrobial resistance news (and even covers phages, in episode two!).

Aurélie Mathieu (Université Paris-Saclay) and colleagues have published an exciting new paper in Nature Communications: they isolated 150 E. coli phages from fecal samples from 1-year-old infants. Then they analyzed the host range of the ph

This week, we bring you an interview with Danish Malik, Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University. He tells us about current challenges with phage manufacturing, including what phage companies need to think about, and how academic-commerci

Australia is becoming a hotspot for phage therapy research and innovation. In this in-depth Sydney Morning Herald feature, Jeremy Barr describes his role in Tom Patterson's phage therapy case (Jeremy now runs his own phage research lab at M

Could destroying phages after they've found their target help make phages work more like drugs? In a new PNAS paper, Huan Peng (UC Santa Barbara) and colleagues describe how they've conjugated phages to gold nanorods, which can "cook" nearb

A new crAssphage paper by Tanvi Honap (University of Oklahoma) and colleagues shows that crAssphage prevalence correlates with more industrialized lifestyles. Paper | News Article

BCM Tailor Labs is a new initiative out of Baylor College of Medicine focused on phage therapy.

Attention phage companies with interests in addressing animal health challenges! You can apply here to showcase your solution at the Animal Microbiome and Nutritional Health Congress in Chicago Mar 3-4, 2020. (Apparently most companies who'