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Ely O. Aboka of the Phage Hunters Training and Research Program in Nairobi, Kenya will host a LinkedIn Live panel discussion on July 31st, 2024 from 9:00 PM EAT on the topic 'Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) & Phage Therapy.' Panelists includ

The 14th annual Oxford Phage Conference will be held September 2-3, 2024 in Oxford, UK as a hybrid event. Confirmed speakers include Professor Martha Clokie (UK) | Professor Aidan Coffey (Ireland) | Dr Mariam Dadiani (Georgia) | Professor

Want to submit a session proposal for #ASMicrobe 2025 (particularly in the field of microbial ecology, evolution, and genomics)? The deadline is in a week! Submit your proposal here.

Canadian phage company Cytophage Technologies announced a collaboration with a Pan-Asian agrifood company in Singapore to expand its poultry phage product commercialization. Cytophage anticipates conducting trials with this commercial partn

Nils Birkholz (University of Otago) and colleagues investigated the dual regulatory mechanisms of the Aca2 protein, showing that it represses anti-CRISPR gene expression by binding both DNA and RNA.

Florian Tesson (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper on the DefenseFinder webservice/wiki/database for antiphage defense mechanisms, showing an updated resource with 152 identified systems.

Robby Concha Eloko (I2sysbio, University of Valencia, Spain) and colleagues modeled the interplay between Klebsiella prophages and their depolymerases, showing significant predictive ability for capsular tropism.

In a new blog post, Alima Yahia (a student at The Knowledge Society starting at Columbia University this Fall) explores phages and why they're needed — including her own challenges with antibiotics. This is a fun, refreshing read; great wor

What are 'n of 1' clinical trials, how do they compare to compassionate use, and how might they be used for phages? This week Jessica shares musings about this topic, which has been swirling in her brain for a while now... Hello everyone! I

The University of Nottingham, UK is hiring a Research Associate/Fellow in Bacteriophage Biology to work on a BBSRC-funded collaborative project on the use of phage to control Salmonella infections in poultry.

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

The University of Tübingen (Germany) is hiring a PhD student to investigate virus dynamics in soil and rhizosphere using metagenomics.

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

ICTV's Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is now open, inviting bioinformaticians to classify a set of viral sequences using a bioinformatics pipeline of their choice or design. Pipelines should be fully and easily reproducible and cod

The Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Centre Munich has an open PhD position in Systems Biology to explore the interplay between viral and microbial communities and their impact on human health using advanced computational techni

ICTV's Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is now open, inviting bioinformaticians to classify a set of viral sequences using a bioinformatics pipeline of their choice or design. Pipelines should be fully and easily reproducible and cod

Viruses of Microbes 2024 (Cairns, Australia) has just come to a close, and it looked to be an EPIC event! Check #vom2024 on Twitter for countless updates and recaps of people’s favourite talks! Also, the next VoM location has officially be

The iVoM webinar series season 3 concluded with great success, attracting over 600 registrations from 11 countries and featuring 23 speakers, including 18 early-career researchers, discussing the latest research and advancements in microbia