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Associate Professor Ruby Lin of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research (last week's Capsid & Tail guest writer! has been awarded a grant from BGI Australia to build Australia's first "phage biobank"! The phage bank will give Australian

Polish company Proteon Pharmaceuticals has been awarded a 2.9 million Euro grant from the European Regional Development Fund to develop phages to fight bacterial infections in fish farming (aquaculture). The grant will help Proteon improve

What's the hardest part of phage genome annotation? According to Marta Sampaio and colleagues at the University of Minho, it's finding phage promoters. Here's a new tool they developed, PhagePromoter, to help you find them.

The journal Viruses will be awarding two travel awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD students. Each award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs for travel to a virology conference in 2020. Apply here by Oct. 31, 2019! To help you find a

Fatma Abdelrhman Dear phage community, I've created a What’s App group for scientists who work on phage and AMR, to gather them, benefit and share experience, knowledge, and research of phage worldwide. Please join and share the link (https

Fort Detrick, Maryland The Bio-Behavioral Research Operation of Leidos is currently looking for a Research Assistant to support biological research in support of the Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) at the Naval Medical Resear

#### Question Any advice on how to store phages/ viruses? I know there are quite a few methods for long-time storage but I'd like to hear your advice. Thanks! 😀 — @LeptihnLab #### A few of the answers: "Easiest way that our lab uses is t

Polish company Proteon Pharmaceuticals has been awarded a 2.9 million Euro grant from the European Regional Development Fund to develop phages to fight bacterial infections in fish farming (aquaculture). The grant will help Proteon improve

Dr. JM Ghigo, Paris, France We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated postdoctoral fellow with a strong interest in multi-species molecular microbiology to contribute to our ongoing research on colonization resistance in zebrafish. The

Dr. Frank Aylward, Blacksburg, Virginia The Aylward lab at Virginia Tech is seeking a post-doctoral researcher interested in the evolution and genomics of DNA viruses. The researcher will have the opportunity to work in several areas of ong

Dr. Frank Aylward, Blacksburg, Virginia The Aylward lab at Virginia Tech is seeking a post-doctoral researcher interested in the evolution and genomics of DNA viruses. The researcher will have the opportunity to work in several areas of ong

Dr. JM Ghigo, Paris, France We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated postdoctoral fellow with a strong interest in multi-species molecular microbiology to contribute to our ongoing research on colonization resistance in zebrafish. The

What's the path forward when it comes to phage therapy? According to Shawna McCallin of the University Hospital of Geneva and Phages4All, clinical data is the priority, but it won't be enough. "The recent bankruptcy of Achaogen, a biotech

This week, phage researchers and clinicians from the Westmead Institute and Westmead Hospital brief us on how phage therapy is regulated in Australia, through the lens of their experience treating 14 patients with IV phage therapy. ## Phage

Olympia Alvarez and Taehoon Ha We are MPH graduate students from California State University, San Marcos, and this survey is for our capstone project on phage therapy. Due to the limited human clinical cases in the literature, we were advis

The 2019 Evergreen International Phage Meeting has come to a close — it was so great meeting so many phage biologists there! Among several highlights, which we'll summarize in a future issue, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Virus

Camille d’Humières and colleagues at the Université Paris Diderot and the Institut Pasteur describe a simple, cost-effective way to analyse the gut phageome: from phage isolation to bioinformatics.

A new paper published by Zachary Storms and colleagues in the Sauvageau lab at the University of Alberta describes a method for high-throughput quantification of phage virulence that can be applied to phage screening, evaluation of phage st

Have you heard about the similarities between the Caudovirales (tailed phages) and the Herpesevirales (a eukaryotic viral order)? Juan Andrade-Martinez and colleagues at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia compared 2000 Caudovirales ge

Jeremy Barr, who runs a phage lab at Monash University, was interviewed about his work and career on the Meet the Microbiologist podcast. 45 min.