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A Postdoctoral Research Associate position in microbiology is available immediately in the lab of Dr. Patrick Secor as part of an interactive multidisciplinary research team focused on bacteriophage biology at the University of Montana. The

If you haven't read Elio Schaechter's blog, Small Things Considered, you should take a look. This week he wrote a lovely post on flagellotropic phages and how phages "lasso" their host by the flagella, then glide down to the base for infect

Here's a shameless plug: we wrote a textbook chapter for Bacteriophages: Biology, Technology, Therapy, and it came out this week! We focus on how countries new to phage therapy are making compassionate phage therapy work (hint: collaboratio

Have you heard about how phages have their own parasites? Here's a great tweet thread by Kim Seed of UC Berkeley explaining two new papers from her lab! The papers focus on understanding V. cholerae phage interactions with PLEs, phage-induc

Armata Pharmaceuticals has addressed its shareholders with good news about how their company is progressing post-merger between C3J and AmpliPhi. The company also recently announced that it has received a Research and Development Tax Incent

Krystyna Dąbrowska (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Stephen Abedon (Ohio State University) have published a review on what it means to do "pharmacologically aware" phage therapy, which takes into consideration the in vivo obstacles to phage

If you can get to Hamilton, Ontario Nov 14-15, check out the 2019 Gairdner Symposium: Fuelling the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance. Speakers include Dame Sally Davies (UK special envoy on AMR), Kevin Outterson (Director of CarbX), au

This week, Milan Buňata of MB Pharma, a Czech company that's recently gotten into phage, tells us about phage therapy traditions in the Czech Republic, what their company is working toward, and their interest in collaborating with the phage

Why do bacteria evolve CRISPR-based phage resistance in natural environments, while in the lab, they seem to more readily evolve receptor-based resistance? Ellinor Alseth (University of Exeter) and colleagues have published a new paper digg

Engineering phages is getting more popular; here's another breakthrough in phage synthetic biology! Matthew Dunne (ETH Zurich) and colleagues have developed several approaches for engineering phages targeting Gram-positive pathogens (using

Is lyophilization a good way to store phages? Prasanth Manohar and Nachimuthu Ramesh (Vellore Institute of Technology) tested lyophilization conditions for three phages (an Escherichia phage, a Klebsiella phage and an Enterobacter phage) us

Another publicly-traded phage company is now on the stock market! This week, the phage/microbiome biotech company BiomX completed its merger with Chardan Healthcare, and the combined company (BiomX Inc.) started trading on the New York Stoc

Another publicly-traded phage company is now on the stock market! This week, the phage/microbiome biotech company BiomX completed its merger with Chardan Healthcare, and the combined company (BiomX Inc.) started trading on the New York Stoc

Why do bacteria evolve CRISPR-based phage resistance in natural environments, while in the lab, they seem to more readily evolve receptor-based resistance? Ellinor Alseth (University of Exeter) and colleagues have published a new paper digg

Engineering phages is getting more popular; here's another breakthrough in phage synthetic biology! Matthew Dunne (ETH Zurich) and colleagues have developed several approaches for engineering phages targeting Gram-positive pathogens (using

Is lyophilization a good way to store phages? Prasanth Manohar and Nachimuthu Ramesh (Vellore Institute of Technology) tested lyophilization conditions for three phages (an Escherichia phage, a Klebsiella phage and an Enterobacter phage) us

Jeffrey Carey (University of Pennsylvania) and colleagues have shown that a temperate E. coli phage reprograms its host's regulation of an anaerobic respiratory system. They found that the prophage disables the bet-hedging strategy that aid

Amelia McKitterick and Sian Owen, Boston, Massachussetts Calling all phage enthusiasts in the Boston area! @implosian and I want to organize a meetup with other Boston phage peeps to share ideas and network etc. Trying to gauge interest, so

Seeking a research technician to: - Assist with our directed evolution project with the purpose of improving the efficiency and safety of gene insertion tools. - Assist with conducting a wide variety of molecular biology techniques, some of

We are looking for a research assistant to plan and perform laboratory work at and beyond the state-of-the-art in the areas of cloning, cell culture, recombinant expression, and protein purification of soluble and membrane proteins and comp