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Dr. Richard Novick The Novick lab at the NYU School of Medicine is seeking a research technician to perform laboratory experiments such as bacterial cultures, strain isolation, genetic tests, experiments with mice; manage lab - order suppli

How is phage-host coevolution studied in the lab, and what can it tell us? Raise your hand if you've used the terms "coevolution" or "arms race" to describe how phages and their hosts interact. Chances are, if you've written a grant, a pape

Michael Van Delle University of Toronto researchers have developed a novel phage susceptibility testing platform. To understand the need for such a solution, Adventus Research + Consulting is reaching out to phage community experts, stakeho

Dr. Adam Martin The Dementia Research Centre within the Department of Biomedical Sciences is seeking a suitably qualified Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a proven track record in peptide phage display technology to provide research suppor

Dr. Ross Fitzgerald A post-doctoral fellowship is available in the University of Edinburgh with Professor J. Ross Fitzgerald and colleagues. The 3 year-funded project involves a grouping of microbiologists, bioinformaticians and veterinary

Michael Van Delle University of Toronto researchers have developed a novel phage susceptibility testing platform. To understand the need for such a solution, Adventus Research + Consulting is reaching out to phage community experts, stakeho

Check out this extremely informative Twitter thread by Simon Roux, which breaks down his new preprint on the pervasiveness of Inoviruses. Detect Inoviruses in your own sequence data with this tool (Github). We want to encourage more scienti

Carol E. Zhou and colleagues report a new phage annotation pipeline called multiPhATE. Preprint and Github.

A new virome twin study! J. Leonardo Moreno-Gallego and colleagues show that virome and microbiome diversity correlate, and in contrast to a prior study, adult twins DO have more similar viromes than unrelated individuals. They suggest that

Rob Lavigne at KU Leuven is seeking comments on his new preprint on patents related to phage use in agriculture. Comment under the paper on BioRxiv, or tweet @RobLavigne1!

This commentary by Jens H. Kuhn and colleagues may convince you to care more about the need for cataloguing viral genomes.

Great news for BiomX, a company developing custom phage therapies to treat microbiome-based diseases, which just raised $32 million in series B financing!

Dr. Ross Fitzgerald A post-doctoral fellowship is available in the University of Edinburgh with Professor J. Ross Fitzgerald and colleagues. The 3 year-funded project involves a grouping of microbiologists, bioinformaticians and veterinary

Dr. Adam Martin The Dementia Research Centre within the Department of Biomedical Sciences is seeking a suitably qualified Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a proven track record in peptide phage display technology to provide research suppor

A look into government incentives for antimicrobial development, and how they apply to phage therapeutic development. If phage therapeutics are going to be developed as drugs, at least in the US, there needs to be significantly more investm

Dr. Mylene Ogliastro Looking for motivated postdoc who wants to explore virus diversity (in insects). This is part of an EU project, ViroplantH2020, and is a 2-year position. Experience in viral metagenomics and bionformatics required. Posi

The Center for Phage Technology is looking for a Programmer I, which will, under direction, perform specialized software development and support functions such as troubleshooting, debugging, problem-solving, analysis, and research in a vira

Cell Host & Microbe just released a special issue devoted to phages!. This includes four free featured reviews, one of which is this article by Kaitlyn Kortright, Benjamin Chan, Jonathan Koff and Paul Turner of Yale University, where they d

Fernando L. Gordillo Altamirano and Jeremy Barr from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have published a new review: Phage Therapy in the Post-Antibiotic Era. Their paper includes a nice timeline of phage therapy history and a beauti

Stephen Wandro and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine have published a new paper on Enterococcus faecium phage evolution. His experiments, which he presented at Kisaco Research's North American Microbiome Congress last week,