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Here’s a great example of the phage community helping each other out on Twitter — thanks to Stephen Stockdale of APC Microbiome (@SteveStockyPhD) and Simon Roux of the Joint Genome Institute (@simroux_virus) for providing answers! #### Her

Dr. Breck Duerkop, Denver, Colorado A full-time Professional Research Assistant (PRA) position is available, starting immediately, to work in the laboratory of Dr. Breck Duerkop in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University o

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia cenocepacia phages for a cystic fibrosis patient in the USA. 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 -

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with expertise in testing phage treatments in animals to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on engineered phages and CRISPR phages. The ideal c

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with expertise in phage biology to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on engineered phages and CRISPR phages. The ideal candidate loves phages,

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with significant experience in drafting patent applications to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on engineered phages and CRISPR phages. The i

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with expertise in synthetic biology to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on next-generation tools for editing the microbiome (engineered phage

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with expertise in testing phage treatments in animals to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on engineered phages and CRISPR phages. The ideal c

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with significant experience in drafting patent applications to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on engineered phages and CRISPR phages. The i

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with expertise in phage biology to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on engineered phages and CRISPR phages. The ideal candidate loves phages,

Paris, France We are looking for passionate and driven scientists with expertise in synthetic biology to join our international and highly motivated team in Paris working on next-generation tools for editing the microbiome (engineered phage

This week, Siân Owen, a postdoctoral fellow studying prophage biology at Harvard University, gives us the scoop on the phage side of this year’s ASM Microbe conference. ASM Microbe 2019 was held at the Moscone Conference Centre in downtown

Where did our gut virome originate? A team of 117 authors (from 75 labs & 60 countries), led by Rob Edwards (SDSU) and Bas Dutilh (Utrecht University), has published an impressive new crAssphage study in Nature Microbiology showing how glob

Harald Brüssow, guest editor of the recently completed "Hurdles for Phage Therapy to Become a Reality" issue of Viruses, has written an editorial on the work (30 papers) published in the issue. His take-home lessons for optimizing phage the

How do we inactivate phages after they’ve served their purpose? Here’s a new review by Julia Sommer and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Austria, which goes over the effectiveness of different phage inactivation produc

The first Phages for Global Health Phage Workshop in West Africa started this week! This 2-week lab training workshop is hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Participants from 6 countries (Benin, Cote d

PHAGES in Grenoble will take place on October 8-9, 2019 at the Institute for Structural Biology, on the EPN (European Photon & Neutron Campus) campus in Grenoble. This is the fifth phage symposium organized by PHAGES.fr. Its objective is to

Anca Segall, Dwayne Roach and Steffanie Strathdee recently published a perspective on phage-antibiotic synergy. They conclude that co-treatment with phages and antibiotics has the potential to extend the utility of antibiotics currently in

Stineke Van Houte, Cornwall, UK CRISPR immunity protects bacteria against bacteriophage infections. Recent work from our lab demonstrates that phages that encode anti-CRISPR proteins immunosuppress bacterial hosts, which allows other phages

We are urgently seeking Enterococcus faecium phages for a critically-ill patient in Germany. 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 h