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Joanne Emerson, Davis, California The Emerson Lab at the University of California, Davis is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to lead a project in soil and/or rhizosphere viral ecology using omic approaches, particularly metagenomics and/or

Joanne Emerson, Davis, California The Emerson Lab at the University of California, Davis is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to lead a project in soil and/or rhizosphere viral ecology using omic approaches, particularly metagenomics and/or

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Phage Directory, expanded Dear phage fans, You may have noticed some improvements and differences around the site, and we have some exciting news to share! We've heard lots of feedback over the past year, and we've made some additions

This week, Dan Evans, a research technician in the Van Tyne lab at the University of Pittsburgh, takes us through the regulatory challenges keeping phage therapy out of the mainstream, highlights ways to overcome these hurdles, and suggests

The winner of the Microbiology Society’s 2019 Fleming Prize for outstanding research is Prof. Peter Fineran, Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Watch Prof. Fineran’s award talk on phage resistance systems here.

The International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya has partnered with the Université Laval in Canada to develop phage products against Salmonella to treat poultry in Kenya. The project is funded by Canada’s International Development Re

Nicolas Dufour of the Institut Pasteur and colleagues have shown that lysis of E. coli by phages in mice (as a treatment for pneumonia) did not increase innate inflammatory responses compared to an antibiotic treatment.

##### Call for Posters for Phage Futures Europe, Brussels, September 25-26 Looking to showcase your recent work to the phage therapy community? Phage Futures Europe is accepting abstract submissions for poster presentations. Your poster wil

Mian Li Ooi and colleagues at the University of Adelaide and Ampliphi Biosciences published a paper on their use of phage therapy in a phase I clinical trial to treat patients with chronic rhinosinusitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The

Sociovirology is the study of conflict, cooperation and communication of viruses. To get up to speed on this rapidly advancing new field, check out this news feature in Nature by Elie Doglin.

Brianna Weiss and colleagues from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) presented work at ASM Microbe this past week that showed their identification of phages in kitchen sponges. This project started as part of an undergraduate resea

Submissions are now open to a new Bacteriophage Collection within the journal Microbial Genomics (a Microbiology Society journal). Here’s their tweet: #Bacteriophages are a key tool in biological research, and this new collection will bring

PhagoMed, an Austrian phage therapy company, announced this week that it’s received 1.5 million Euro in additional investment!