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Check out the agenda for the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit - led by 25+ expert speakers from industry, academia and governmental bodies, this meeting will equip you with all the tools you need in order to accelerate the discovery and tra

The Africa Phage Forum formed by a group of passionate African phage researchers provides a collaborative network for the promotion and sensitization of phage research in Africa. The forum is on a quest to seek solutions to common challenge

This issue was sponsored by Kisaco Research for Phage Futures 2021.

The International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms has announced their newly elected executive board members for 2021-2022! Congratulations to Rob Lavigne (President), Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa (President-elect), Andrew Millard (Vice-Presid

Contrary to what we announced last week, we've had to postpone PHAVES 11 with Dr. Iredell until 2021. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up! We'll see you back in the new year for season 2 — thanks for an awesome first 10 episodes in 2020! Reg

The 23rd Congress of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) will be held in Boise, Idaho from 22nd to 26th May 2021. The scientific agenda is focusing on the current understanding of pulmonary disease, viral transmission

Eleanor Townsend and Eleanor Jameson (University of Warwick) are editing a special issue titled “Phage-Host Interaction in the Gut Microbiome and Their Impacts on Human Health and Disease” in MDPI’s International Journal of Environmental Re

The fourth iVoM event will be Thursday, December 17, 7pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms". Talks: - New discoveries on the immune system of bacteria — Rotem Sorek - The regulation and activity of Cl

My name is Tom Ireland and I'm a science writer based in the UK working on a popular-science book about phages. Under contract with a major publisher, the book aims to bring the wonder of phages to a mass audience, telling the fascinating h

The fourth iVoM event will be Thursday, December 17, 7pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms". Talks: - New discoveries on the immune system of bacteria — Rotem Sorek - The regulation and activity of Cl

The recording for iVoM #2 (Virus Structure and Function with Petr Leiman, Kristin Parent and Pascale Boulanger) has been posted on the VoM 2020 Youtube channel!

Two upcoming phage webinars organized by the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science: 1) From Petri Dish to Patient: Mycobacteriophages and Their Therapeutic Potential (December 8): Register here. 2) Phage and Antibiotics: Induction of

This week included Giving Tuesday, and some of you likely donated to Phages for Global Health (PGH). A message from the PGH team: "Thank you so much for your gifts yesterday — between your contributions and matching funds we raised over $18

(POSTPONED TO 2021) Save the date for the next rendition of PHAVES, a seminar with Dr. Jonathan Iredell, MD of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research and University of Sydney on Wed, Dec 16 at 8AM AEDT (Tues, Dec 15 at 4PM Eastern Time

Thanks so much to the labs who reached out in response to our request for Serratia phages last week. In just a few days, the strain was shipped out to the first set of labs for testing. A few days after that, an active phage was found (by R

Join Jean-Paul Pirnay, PhD, Gina Suh, MD, and Nicholas Chia, PhD Nov 30, 2020 12:00 PM Central time for an engaging virtual discussion on phage therapy as a tool in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections. The talk is entitled "Ba

Good day! I am a 3rd year Medical Technology student from the Philippines and we are currently looking for MS2 Escherichia coli bacteriophage for our thesis project. I hope you can help me to look for the above said bacteriophage sample. Th

The African Phage Forum is a new collaborative network of African phage researchers to promote and sensitize phage research in Africa, created by Dr. Emmanuel Nnadi, Dr. Rita Nakayinga, and Dr. Juliah Khayeli. They aim to motivate and mento

We have started a small association in Switzerland called phageSuisse to bring different actors of phage therapy in Switzerland together. With this association, we launched a small webinar series. The first webinar will be on December 1st b