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NIAID will renew funding ($102.5 million over 7 years) for the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), and this time it includes funds for a phage therapy study! The ARLG is a global consortium of scientific experts that leads a c

Biocrusts are photosynthetic hotspots in deserts that face an uncertain future due to climate change-induced changes in rainfall. Marc Van Goethem (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) and colleagues have published a study in mBio characterizin

Sci Phage, a Colombian phage biotech company commercializing a Salmonella phage cocktail for use in chicken farms, is one of three winners of the Latin American startup accelerator program GaneshaLab. GaneshaLab will support winning compani

Here's an excellent recent documentary about the history and state of phage therapy by ARTE, a French/German public broadcast service (54 min). It's available until Dec 31 and well worth the watch! For more, read last week's Capsid & Tail,

The 2nd Hanson Wade Bacteriophage Therapy Summit will take place March 24-26, 2020 in Boston. Key speakers include representatives from the FDA and the EMA, as well as leaders of several phage biotech companies.

It's almost the holiday season! Here's Harvard postdoc Siân Owen's template for making paper phages to decorate your lab or office! (Of course, these are worthwhile to make year-round!)

Jessica Blair (Univ. of Birmingham) and Martha Clokie (Univ. of Leicester) are recruiting a PhD student to work on using phages to turn off bacterial efflux pumps.

Merry Christmas! We'll be taking a break from Capsid & Tail next week, but we'll be back in the new year, starting with a reflection on 2019 and a look at where Phage Directory is headed in 2020! P.S. If you're interested in contributing a

University of Toronto is hiring for a phage-related faculty position: "We are interested in candidates who are applying bioinformatics, chemical biology and structural biology to important questions in the biology and biochemistry of bacter

University of Toronto is hiring for a phage-related faculty position: "We are interested in candidates who are applying bioinformatics, chemical biology and structural biology to important questions in the biology and biochemistry of bacter

Jessica Blair (Univ. of Birmingham) and Martha Clokie (Univ. of Leicester) are recruiting a PhD student to work on using phages to turn off bacterial efflux pumps.

Merry Christmas! We'll be taking a break from Capsid & Tail next week, but we'll be back in the new year, starting with a reflection on 2019 and a look at where Phage Directory is headed in 2020! P.S. The 2020 guest-writing schedule is ret

Biocrusts are photosynthetic hotspots in deserts that face an uncertain future due to climate change-induced changes in rainfall. Marc Van Goethem (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) and colleagues have published a study in mBio characterizin

NIAID will renew funding ($102.5 million over 7 years) for the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), and this time it includes funds for a phage therapy study! The ARLG is a global consortium of scientific experts that leads a c

It's almost the holiday season! Here's Harvard postdoc Siân Owen's template for making paper phages to decorate your lab or office! (Of course, these are worthwhile to make year-round!)

Here's an excellent recent documentary about the history and state of phage therapy by ARTE, a French/German public broadcast service (54 min). It's available until Dec 31 and well worth the watch! For more, read last week's Capsid & Tail,

This week, Aël Hardy, an MD-PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, explores physicians’ awareness about phages and how it could be improved. He interviewed two French physicians who recently used phages to treat some of their m

Two groups have published papers showing how jumbo phages can create nucleus-like structures in their hosts to protect phage DNA from CRISPR-Cas systems. Read Senén Mendoza (UCSF) and colleagues' paper on how this works for a Pseudomonas ph

Dr. Thomas Böttcher, head of an Emmy Noether junior research group at the University of Konstanz in Germany has received an ERC Consolidator Grant (around 2 million Euro over 5 years) to study chemical factors that control the transition of

The Turner lab at Yale has successfully treated 13 patients with phages so far. Now, the team has been awarded support from the Blavatnik Fund, which helps Yale scientists commercialize their discoveries. The support has made it possible fo