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Janssen R&D LLC. is currently seeking to recruit a Microbiology Leader, Scientific Director, for a research and development team within the Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Therapeutic Area to be located in Spring House, PA. The Microbiolo

This position will focus on developing improved reverse genetic tools for viruses using synthetic genomics and CRISPR-based tools to manipulate virus genomes and recover viable virus leading towards a more complete understanding of viruses

Janssen R&D LLC. is currently seeking to recruit a Microbiology Leader, Scientific Director, for a research and development team within the Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Therapeutic Area to be located in Spring House, PA. The Microbiolo

This position will focus on developing improved reverse genetic tools for viruses using synthetic genomics and CRISPR-based tools to manipulate virus genomes and recover viable virus leading towards a more complete understanding of viruses

Bayside Solutions is seeking a Scientist II to be part of our client's team in the East Bay Area. This is an opportunity to work with the largest privately held pharmaceutical corporation in the world and ranks among the world's 20 leading

The Department of Plant and Environmental Science invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position within the field of bacteriophage biology with start 1 May 2020, or as soon as possible thereafter. The impact of microb

The Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (MBB) and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of California, Irvine, invite applications for two tenure-track assistant professorships in microbiome research. 1.

Save the date for Phage Futures Congress 2020, coming up Feb 5-6, 2020 (note that the date has changed!) in Washington, DC, USA.

PhagoMed has announced it will develop a phage lysin for bacterial vaginosis (targeting Gardnerella vaginalis). This means the company is extending its portfolio, as prior to this it was only working on complete phages. Press Release | News

Marta Lourenço (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues have published a preprint on how inaccessible sites in the mouse gut mucosa serve as a spatial refuge for bacteria, limiting phage predation, and leading to phage-bacterial coexistence that i

Michelle Yang How are strain B and UPEC strains of E. coli similar? How do you select phages for a phage cocktail? Please email me at yang94m@gmail.com.

Michelle Yang How are strain B and UPEC strains of E. coli similar? How do you select phages for a phage cocktail? Please email me at yang94m@gmail.com.

This week we highlight a recent paper on using phage therapy to treat severe musculoskeletal infections (osteomyelitis). A multidisciplinary group in Belgium made up of surgeons, infectious disease physicians, pharmacists, microbiologists a

The Department of Biology at Gonzaga University invites applications for a Biology Lab Specialist to prepare laboratory facilities for the teaching of multi-section laboratory courses, to assist with the implementation of lab curricula, to

The Department of Biology at Gonzaga University invites applications for a Biology Lab Specialist to prepare laboratory facilities for the teaching of multi-section laboratory courses, to assist with the implementation of lab curricula, to

Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens We are recruiting a student at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) on the role phages play in the establishment of the gut microbiota, particularly focused on beneficial bifidobacteria. The student will join the

Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens The Adriaenssens group at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), in collaboration with the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia, is looking to recruit a PhD student on a fully funded projec

It's Capsid & Tail's one-year anniversary this week! We sent out our first issue on Oct 18, 2018. Since then, we've published 48 issues, including 13 guest articles (authored by 23 guest authors). We've grown to over 600 subscribers, with a

We've been talking about NIAID's new request for applications for phage research; here's the complete funding opportunity announcement. This is an R21 grant mechanism (no clinical trials allowed). NIAID intends to commit $2.5 million in FY

New research by Andrey Shkoporov and colleagues at APC Microbiome in Ireland has shown using longitudinal metagenomics that the human gut virome is actually very stable in individuals, but that each individual tested had their own unique vi