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Thanks so much to everyone who attended PHAVES #16 this week! Here's the recording! Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the CU Anschutz and CU Denver gave a fantastic joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvag

PHAVES #17 will be May 18, 5pm CEST (Paris time). Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris will present their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, a

Has anyone in the community used/heard of an automated system that does plaque identification, picking, and subculturing? Please email jessica@phage.directory with suggestions/links — thanks!

My name is Gábor Apjok, a PhD student from the Biological Research Centre of Szeged, Hungary. Recently, our hospitals in Hungary have detected multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which we have started to collect. We are familiar wi

Tiffany Luong (San Diego State University) and colleagues have published a paper called 'Can Viruses Save Lives?' in the Biomedical Science Journal for Teens that describes their analysis of clinical phage therapy reports published in recen

From @PaulJaschke on Twitter: "I'm looking for images of petri dishes with M13 #phage on them. Can anybody help me out? We're trying to test Plaque Size Tool on turbid plaques and (surprisingly) cannot find any on the internet! Thanks!"

The 27th annual Boston Bacterial Meeting is going to be held on June 10-11, 2021 organized by a diverse group of students and post-docs from several institutions. It has talks on Antibiotic Resistance (chaired by John Dekker, National Insti

We hosted Dr. Justin Clark (phage bioinformatician at BCM Tailor Labs) in our recent phage bioinformatics series (co-hosted with IBRC), and many of you have been excitedly waiting for the recording! While unforeseen factors prevented us fro

PHAVES #17 will be May 18, 5pm CEST (Paris time). Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris will present their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, a

The World Microbe Forum 2021 (June 20-24, online; an ASM and FEMS collaboration) this year will include a session on viruses of microbes convened by Madalena Pimental and Rob Lavigne, on behalf of the Viruses of Microbes 2020 team and ISVM,

We cordially invite you to participate in the 2nd German Phage Symposium, which will take place Sept 13-14, 2021 at the University of Hohenheim, and will include keynote speakers Prof. Anat Herskovits, Prof. Ian J. Molineux and Prof. Dr. Jo

Next week on Clubhouse Phage Phridays (audio-only, casual drop-in discussions), our guest will be Dominic Sauvageau from the University of Alberta, who will chat with us about the 'phage virulence index' his lab has developed to quantify ph

PHAVES #17 will be May 18, 5pm CEST (Paris time). Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris will present their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, a

Update from the PhageAI crew: We're proud to announce to you the release of PhageAI 0.8.0: extended repository and two new features: closest phages and Expert form! What's new: - uploading your sample and discovering top-10 closest phages

PHAVES #17 will be May 18, 5pm CEST (Paris time). Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris will present their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, a

Dear fellow virologists, Welcome to the first conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV), which is a global non-profit organization established in 2017, to connect virologists around the world, with no restrictions or boundaries, an

Thanks to everyone who attended two exciting forums we helped co-host this week! Yesterday we had 'Phage Therapy UK: Moving toward clinical trials', which brought tons of fruitful conversations among phage-interested medical professionals,

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting its next phage webinar in its series, April 23 at 4pm GMT with special guest Dr. Jesca Nakavuma (Veterinarian and Senior Lecturer at Makerere University, Uganda), who will give a talk entitled Practical cha

Thanks to everyone who attended one or both of the PHAVES events we hosted this week! We heard Dr. Clara Torres-Barceló talk about phages for plant pathogens (recording here!), and Dr. Randy Fish talk about phages for diabetic foot infectio

Today, like all Fridays these days, it's 'Phage Phridays' in the 'Phage Club' on Clubhouse!. Time: 4PM Central (new time this week!) Theme: CRISPR and anti-CRISPR! Special guest: Joe Bondy-Denomy Hosts: Adriana Carolina Hernandez, Sabrina G