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Dr. Katharina Höfer (Philipps University Marburg) has been awarded a LOEWE top professorship — 2.8 million euros over a period of five years to support her research into the role of RNA modifications in biology and new mechanisms of gene re

Ellie Jameson (Bangor University), environmental virologist and scientific illustrator, has published her phage art collection (drawings, cartoons, etc!) on her new website. Check out her work (& reach out to commission her to illustrate yo

The Phage Hunters Training and Research Program in Nairobi has been hosting a ‘Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Phage Therapy series’ on LinkedIn Live — recordings are available! Recently they had a panel on AMR and phage therapy, and ano

Ashlan Kunz Coyne (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) and colleagues published a new paper on evaluating phage-antibiotic combinations against ESKAPE pathogens, showing synergistic and antagonistic interactions.

Cody Martin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new preprint on Protein Set Transformer: A protein-based genome language model to power high diversity viromics.

Geeta Ram (NYU Grossman School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper on incorporating the gene encoding lysostaphin into their ‘Antibacterial Drone System’, showing expanded killing field and effective treatment of mixed bacteri

Ana Catarina Duarte (Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias, Spain) and colleagues examined the synergistic removal of S. aureus biofilms using phage Kayvirus rodi and exopolysaccharide depolymerase Dpo7, showing a significant decrease

Cátia Carreira (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues have written a perspective on the impact of viruses on soil biogeochemistry and argued for their consideration in soil microbial food webs, showing viruses as key regulators of soil f

Welcome to the Podovirus podcast, episode 2! In this episode, Jessica talks with Dr. Joe Campbell, who recently retired as a program officer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institut

What if we could instantly extract information we need from a spreadsheet (like raw plate reader data) in just a click? Can AI help? This week, Jan writes about a project he worked on for Sphinx Bio, where he tried to extract data from spre

Armata Pharmaceuticals received a $5.25 million grant from the US Department of Defense for their AP-SA02 'diSArm' clinical trial to treat S. aureus bacteremia.

How do we elucidate required genes in non-model phage-host pairs? Milan Gerovac (University of Würzburg, Germany) and colleagues published a new method of 'non-genetic' mRNA silencing (exogenous delivery of programmable antisense oligomers)

Hypersaline environments harbor the highest concentrations of virus-like particles reported for aquatic ecosystems. Rodrigo Sanchez-Martinez (University of Alicante, Spain) and colleagues investigated episomal phage maintenance in the salt-

Nicolas Kieffer (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) and colleagues investigated the role of mobile integrons in phage defense systems, showing that integrons can confer multiphage resistance and limit prophage activation.

Erica Birkholz (University of California, San Diego) and colleagues investigated the role of a homing endonuclease in viral competition, showing that it interferes with the replication of competing phages, providing a fitness advantage.

Glasgow Caledonian University is hiring two PhD students to study how complex polymicrobial biofilm populations respond to phage therapies.

The Women In Phage initiative is conducting a survey to understand the experiences of women in science and research, particularly in bacteriophage research. Your insights will help identify challenges and strategies for future generations.

This month, we recap what we learned about phage genome analysis tools, phage production pipelines, n of 1 clinical trials, and more! Happy Summer! I hope everyone’s been enjoying the summer heat that’s apparently been sweeping the country

The lab of Dr. David Wang at Washington University Medical Campus, St. Louis, USA is hiring a postdoc to conduct research in Molecular Microbiology with a focus on RNA phage biology.

ePhective (San Francisco) is a newly founded phage therapy company started by Joe Bondy-Denomy from UCSF and Zemer Gitai from Princeton. They are currently looking for: - Two Phage Scientists to lead projects in phage discovery, characteri