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Dr. Li Deng The Institute of Virology is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for the newly funded ERC project, with a particular emphasis on bacteriophage communities. The successful applicant will be involved in the developm

Dr. Chris Kenyon Chris Kenyon's group at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerpen, Belgium is seeking a pre-doctoral researcher to study antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. This will involve developing phage cocktails

This week, we explore Belgium's unique new way of treating patients with phages... We've talked about emergency/compassionate phage therapy cases, where patients get phages in the case of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections. T

Sarah Kronheim et al. published a paper in Nature this week on a new mechanism of chemical phage defense in Streptomyces. Here's a News and Views piece by Martha Clokie and an Ars Technica piece on the work.

A recent re-estimation of annual deaths caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) has come up with a number almost 7 times higher than the CDC estimate made in 2010. This suggests a need for better surveillance and reporting systems fo

Karin Moelling et al. published a paper this week in Viruses calling for urgent changes in regulation to allow phage therapy to proceed for patients in need. The authors are also championing a petition for the cause — learn more at http://p

Tobi Nagel, founder and president of the nonprofit Phages for Global Health, was selected as a 2018 Moonshot Fellow by the Kravis Leadership Institute. The award recognizes leaders of innovative initiatives that positively impact the lives

PhagoMed, a Vienna-based phage therapy company, was just awarded a Phoenix Award. The award honours young and successful companies that serve as role models for high-class research and entrepreneurship in Austria. Congratulations!

The Department of Biological Sciences in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas invites applications for an open rank faculty position in Biological Sciences. Our preference is for applications

To provide a window into what happens during a phage hunt, we're devoting this issue to showing some of what's happened over the last three weeks. We've put together an infographic to help illustrate how labs across the globe have come toge

The European Research Council just released the results of its Consolidator Grants 2018 competition, and two prominent phage research labs have been funded! Many congratulations to the labs of Rob Lavigne of KU Leuven, who will tap into pha

A new paper by Gerlach et al. shows that a phage gene can help MRSA evade immune defenses. See also this commentary on the paper.

Another mini phage therapy documentary is out! This one was made by Freethink, is 12 min long, and documents the amazing story of "Paige's Phages" – Pseudomonas phages from Ben Chan's lab at Yale helped a young woman regain her deterioratin

Kathryn Kauffman and Martin Polz of MIT have developed new ways of streamlining phage propagation and titration methods to save us all time and materials. You can also find the protocols here on Protocols.io!

A group of students from the Technical University of Munich won second prize in the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition for their work creating a cell-free phage propagation system called Phactory. Amazing w

The Department seeks candidates who are focused on studies of viral infection, including (but not limited to): molecular mechanisms of virus infection and pathogenesis; cell biology of infection; virus structure; viral evolution/interaction

Dr. Eleanor Jameson, Dr. Andrew Millard, and Dr. Freya Harrison Join @Ellie__Jameson, @friendlymicrobe and @milja001 to: - Examine the structure of phage communities from a range of environments with metagenome sequencing. - Construct a syn

Dr. Martha Clokie To determine the risk posed to UK consumers by Salmonella which may enter the food chain via contaminated poultry and swine products from both the UK and Thailand, we will collect up to 300 Salmonella isolates from each co

We’re incredibly humbled by all the wonderful feedback and for your help in spreading the word about Capsid & Tail and Phage Directory. Thank you!! Dear readers, As our earliest members, we’re immensely thankful for your support and reader

Dr. Eleanor Jameson The project will seek to understand overall changes to the gut microbiome with increased phage loads. This will involve analysis of the bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes and viruses and their metabolites in response to phage