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Deepto Mozumdar (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues have characterized a new lipid-based jumbo phage compartment — a hub for early phage infection. The study explores how phage ΦKZ assembles a vesicle to protect its gen

Khalimat Murtazalieva (European Bioinformatics Institute) and colleagues have discovered 145 phage anti-defence systems (ADSs) that counteract 27 of the 152 known bacterial defence families. They discuss high-throughput approaches which are

Beatriz Beamud (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues have discovered that many bacterial defense systems against phages are encoded by mobile genetic elements, challenging traditional views of bacterial immunity.

In a new preprint, Ritam Das and Janina Rahlff (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) describe a positive correlation between the number of structural genes and above-average guanine-cytosine (GC) content in phage genomes.

This week we're featuring Michael Shamash's reflections on a couple of noteworthy topics covered at this year's Hanson Wade phage summit. Michael is a McGill University PhD student by day / awesome Phage Directory volunteer by night — thank

Franklin Nobrega (University of Southampton, UK) is hiring a PhD student to work on phage therapy for TB.

McGill University (Montreal, Canada) is hiring a teaching assistant to assist with the Fall 2024 SEA-PHAGES: Phage Discovery course.

Check out this episode of the Phage Therapy Today podcast, which features Dr. Mercedes Gonzalez from INCATE (an AMR startup funder/accelerator) and Dr. Gregorio Iraola at Kinzbio, an INCATE recipient and founder of a new phage startup in Ur

One hundred personalized phage treatments, combined! Not only did Jean-Paul Pirnay and colleagues at the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium provide phages for 100 cases, they also published a full analysis of the outcomes! This led N

Katie Wiebe (Cytophage Technologies, Inc) and colleagues have outlined a scalable and efficient production strategy for the ETEC phage ‘Phage75’, which accounts for infection load, MOI, temperature, media, harvest time, and host bacteria (t

Qingquan (Kevin) Chen (Stanford University) and colleagues have demonstrated that filamentous Pf phages of P. aeruginosa hinder antibiotic diffusion through CF sputum via electrostatic binding.

In a recent perspective piece, Christine Szymanski (University of Georgia) highlights the limitless resources for exploitation that phages provide. She discusses their use in various fields such as phage therapy, gene transduction, and glyc

The Centre for Phage Research at the University of Leicester, UK is celebrating its one-year anniversary! Martha Clokie and Andrew Millard reflect on the first year.

A retrospective observational analysis of the first 100 consecutive cases of personalized phage therapy facilitated by a Belgian consortium in 35 hospitals across 12 countries (2008-2022) reports clinical improvement in 77.2% and eradicatio

Round up time! This month we covered why phage researchers are flocking to Australia in July (and California in June!), discussed our 'phage picks' for this month, and shared a very special story from one of the researchers that make up the

Elena Gómez-Sanz (University of Bern, Switzerland) is hiring 1) a postdoc in phages and AMR to develop strategies to visualize transduction dynamics; 2) a PhD student to characterize a unique staphylococcal phage-host library to assess and

Elena Gómez-Sanz (University of Bern, Switzerland) is hiring 1) a postdoc in phages and AMR to develop strategies to visualize transduction dynamics; 2) a PhD student to characterize a unique staphylococcal phage-host library to assess and

University of Greifswald, Germany is hiring a research assistant to work on the ‘UtiliPhage’ project, establishing protocols for phage isolation, purify phages, determine immunogenicity and more.

Elena Gómez-Sanz (University of Bern, Switzerland) is hiring: - a postdoc in phages and AMR to develop strategies to visualize transduction dynamics - a PhD student to characterize a unique staphylococcal phage-host library to assess and me

The Luque Lab at the University of Miami is hiring a postdoc to contribute to an innovative project combining structural virology, multi-scale modeling, and environmental virology.