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The now-constant flood of phage sequence data is showing that tailed phages are more genetically diverse than previously thought. This has led to a re-classification of tailed phages, which is described in a new paper by Jakub Barylski and

#### Dear phage community, We recognize the importance of supporting fundamental phage research, because effective phage therapy starts from a basic understanding of phages. We're excited to announce that we're working on publishing affo

A new paper by Mohammad Tariq and colleagues at the University of Northumbria describes induction of temperate P. aeruginosa phages isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis or bronchiectasis. The more advanced the disease, the broader ho

The journal Viruses has announced that it is now accepting nominations and applications for two travel awards. Awards (800 Swiss Francs each) can be applied to a virology conference in 2020, and can be awarded to PhD students or postdocs.

ContraFect has received a $7.2 Million grant from the US Army Medical Research and Development Command to advance their engineered phage lysin candidate CF-296 for Staphylococcus aureus infections.

Intralytix announced that it will be collaborating with the Eliava Foundation and Ferring Pharmaceuticals to develop new phage-based drugs to improve reproductive medicine and women's health through modulation of the vaginal microbiome.

Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak and colleagues at UC San Diego, the group that discovered that certain Pseudomonas phages replicate their DNA inside a phage-encoded nucleus-like structure, have now published that the capsids of these phages traffic

#### Help us build a publication platform for the phage community! As you may know, we're launching a peer-reviewed publication platform for the phage community. We want to improve the publishing experience for authors and reviewers, and we

A new paper by Saima Aslam and colleagues at the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) at UC San Diego reports their early clinical experience with phage therapy in lung transplant recipients.

Md. Shamim Ahasan and colleagues at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia have published a study comparing phage therapy to antibiotics in treating gut dysbiosis in endangered green turtles. They found that phages (isolated from se

Bacterial diseases cause significant losses in the global fish farming (aquaculture) industry, and phages are being explored as a solution. ## Why aquaculture? Aquaculture (growing/farming fish for food) is the fastest growing food industry

San Francisco, California #### Phage Meetups - Friday, June 21, 5-6:30 PM: Division M phage meeting and award ceremony (Division M is the bacteriophage division of ASM); there will be food, drink and phage; room 306/307/308 South - Sunday,

Dr. Darren Smith, Newcastle, UK The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE) is a £8M initiative between Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. HBBE will develop biotechnologies to create a new generation of buildings which ar

Ibtihadj Souda Constantine, Algeria I am Ibtihadj Souda, a PhD student at the University of Constantine 1 in Algeria working on isolation and characterization of new bacteriophages from wastewater in the Sahara Desert of Algeria (North Afri

San Francisco, California #### Phage Meetups - Friday, June 21, 5-6:30 PM: Division M phage meeting and award ceremony (Division M is the bacteriophage division of ASM); there will be food, drink and phage; room 306/307/308 South - Sunday,

#### Help us build a publication platform for the phage community! As you may know, we're launching a peer-reviewed publication platform for the phage community. We want to improve the publishing experience for authors and reviewers, and we

Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak and colleagues at UC San Diego, the group that discovered that certain Pseudomonas phages replicate their DNA inside a phage-encoded nucleus-like structure, have now published that the capsids of these phages traffic

A new paper by Saima Aslam and colleagues at the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) at UC San Diego reports their early clinical experience with phage therapy in lung transplant recipients.

Intralytix announced that it will be collaborating with the Eliava Foundation and Ferring Pharmaceuticals to develop new phage-based drugs to improve reproductive medicine and women's health through modulation of the vaginal microbiome.

ContraFect has received a $7.2 Million grant from the US Army Medical Research and Development Command to advance their engineered phage lysin candidate CF-296 for Staphylococcus aureus infections.