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If you want to better understand US laws affecting the development of prescription drugs, and the roles and responsibilities of the FDA, edX (HarvardX) is running an online course called The FDA and Prescription Drugs: Current Controversies

Ednner Emmanuel Victoria Blanco Thank you to all the students from Latin America for participating in this 2019 phage course, and special thanks to Martin Loessner and Alejandro Reyes for the amazing lectures and workshop. Hope to see you a

We are seeking highly qualified investigators who use definitive approaches to understand the nature of the microbiome and its impact on host physiology and disease susceptibility. Candidates are sought with expertise in areas related to mi

Dr. E. Harrison, Dr. A. Krzywoszynska In this project we will investigate novel ways of improving the effectiveness of next generation bio-fertilizers – including using naturally occurring mutualistic viruses (temperate phages) which associ

A research opportunity is available in the Division of Bacterial, Parasitic and Allergenic Products (DBPAP) within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, Maryland. This project is aimed at evaluating the use of bacteriopha

Dr. Wang The Wang Laboratory of Molecular Food Safety invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellow position. The successful candidate will execute research on the characterization of the microbial pathogen Rhizobium radiobacter (

Miami Beach, Florida We are seeking Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages to treat a dog's antibiotic-resistant ear infection. Please get in touch with us by email at staff@phage.directory if you are willing to test your phages on the dog's strain,

We have our first Phage Directory volunteer! Cathy Nguyen will be helping with Capsid & Tail's What's New and Jobs section. We also welcome our first guest writer this week, Lucy Furfaro! If you'd like to help (or be kept up to date on oth

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The first case of phage therapy in Israel shows how patients can benefit from collaborations between academia, medicine, military and biotech. This week, we're going over a recently-published phage therapy case report. ## What was the pati

Dr. Eleanor Jameson, Prof. Orkun Soyer, Prof. Arjan Narbad The gut microbiome consists of viruses, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. To date research efforts have focused on bacteria, however the gut virome remains underexplored, even thoug

Dr. Julia Frunzke The Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich performs research in the field of molecular and applied microbiology. The successful candidate will work on an ERC funded project and will be pa

The 4th International Hands-on Phage Biotechnology Course takes place June 17-21, 2019 in Braga, Portugal. Learn theory and techniques for studying phage-host interaction and performing phage genetic manipulation. Registration is now open!

This summer, a new phage journal, PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research, will be launched by the publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., and the editor in chief will be Dr. Martha Clokie!

More phage defense systems?? (And a great article title!) Check out this new paper on Gordonia phages by Matthew T. Montgomery and colleagues in the Hatfull lab.

Cherry canker is a devastating tree disease that could one day be treated by phages. Learn about the work George Sundin's lab at Michigan State University is doing to make this a reality!

If you want to better understand the funds available for AMR drug development, here's a slideshow from a talk given this week by John Rex of the Wellcome Trust. It explains what's available, the different funding models that exist, provides

Dr. Eleanor Jameson, Prof. Orkun Soyer, Prof. Arjan Narbad The gut microbiome consists of viruses, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. To date research efforts have focused on bacteria, however the gut virome remains underexplored, even thoug

Dr. Julia Frunzke The Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich performs research in the field of molecular and applied microbiology. The successful candidate will work on an ERC funded project and will be pa

This week, we highlight a useful new animal model for the phage therapy community. Last week, we introduced a new paper describing use of a cystic fibrosis zebrafish model to test phage therapy outcomes. This week, we dive (pun intended) de