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Phage Directory is exploring a new opportunity related to phage sharing, and we're looking to hear from the phage community! Phage biotech companies are seeking to expand their phage collections (for therapeutics and biocontrol), and we're

Save the date for PHAVES, which continues Sep 1 at 6 PM EST (GMT-4), 8 AM Sept 2 AEST. (Welcome Australia and NZ! We moved the time for this one, so you won't be asleep!) Dr. Sabrina Green of Baylor College of Medicine and BCM TAILOR Labs w

The 2nd Hanson Wade Bacteriophage Therapy Summit takes place (virtually) Aug 27-28, and registration is open! On the Thursday afternoon of the conference, we'll present our vision of how to use technology to scale up phage therapy.

The KITP Bacteriophage Forum continues (virtually) Aug 25 at noon Pacific: Luciano Marrafini (Rockefeller/HHMI) and Paul Turner (Yale) will speak. Register here.

The Pathogens journal has opened a Special Issue about "host-pathogens interactions and phage therapy". — Gabriel Almeida

VoM 2020 Organizers, ISVM, Phage Directory Many of us were excited about Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2020, the conference that had been set to take place this summer in Portugal. In collaboration with the International Society for Viruses of

Phage Directory The next rendition of PHAVES will be an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens on August 18 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 4:00 PM UK (GMT+1). Evelien will answer your questions about phage taxonomy, viromics, an

Hanson Wade The 2nd Hanson Wade Bacteriophage Therapy Summit takes place (virtually) Aug 27-28, and registration is open! We (Jessica and Jan, Phage Directory) are excited to be participating in a panel discussion/workshop alongside Dr. Au

Phage Oxford will take place September 9-10. Register here! The meeting will feature over 20 oral presentations by an international faculty of senior & junior researchers from across the world, covering phage molecular and structural biolo

Dr. Austen Terwilliger, Director of Operations at Baylor College of Medicine's TAILOR Service Center, which produces therapeutic phages for compassionate use cases, will give a talk on ASM-TMC MicroTalks on Aug. 17 at 3:15 PM Central (GMT-5

Need help with phage manufacturing, and looking for an outsourcing partner? JAFRAL manufactures phages to the highest quality and purity, and develops manufacturing processes and analytical methods for various phage types and phage applicat

Hello Everyone ! I'm in need of the MS2 bacteriophage and its host E. coli strain in India. Other than ATCC, I find no suppliers in India. Could anyone please share them or direct me to a supplier in India please? Thanks much ! drshankarman

Kavli Institute, UC Santa Barbara The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara is hosting a series of phage talks (particularly from the eco-evolutionary perspective) called Bacteriophage Forum. The dates are: August 11,

Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy (SBRT) The Indian Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy (SBRT) is a platform where researchers working on phages and their applications share expertise & resources. SBRT is pleased to

Phage Directory Thanks to all who attended PHAVES 4 this week! We had a great turnout! Next up will be an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens on August 18 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 4:00 PM UK (GMT+1). Evelien will answe

Martin Inyimili I have been working on phages from 2018. I now have several phages which I need to extract their DNA and sequence on the nanopore sequencer. Can someone help me on how to do this especially sequencing several samples at once

Phage Directory Our next PHAVES event will take place Aug. 4 at 11:00 AM EST / 8:30 PM IST. We'll be interviewing Pranav Johri and Apurva Virmani Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage Therapy, about their impressive progress improving access to

Phage Directory We'd like to give a shout-out to our new volunteers, M. R. Madhav (phage protocols curator for our future phage protocol compendium), Curtis Hoffmann (Twitter and LinkedIn), and Lizzie Richardson (Capsid & Tail feature editi

Innovative Solutions Canada Innovative Solutions Canada is looking to fund small businesses developing phytosanitary treatment options to control plant pests. Maybe a job for phages?

DBSCAN-SWA is a new tool for prophage detection, recently published as a preprint by Rui Gan and colleagues at Harbin Institute of Technology, China.