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The Arkin and Mutalik labs (University of California, Berkeley) are hiring a Staff Research Associate 2 to isolate phages from diverse environments, carry out genome wide screening assays and NGS sample prep, and prepare easy to follow expe

ASM Microbe 2024 (June 13-17 in Atlanta, Georgia) is hosting a session called Phage Therapy in the Age of AMR: Strategies to Accelerate Phage Therapy from Lab to Market this year! Hear from Ashlan Kunz Coyne, Susan Lehman, Ghady Haidar, Kev

Wilfried Moreira (Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering) invites submissions to a Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences entitled "Bacteriophage Biology and Bacteriophage-Derived Technologies

What are viruses doing in soil? This week we hear from Dr. Gary Trubl about an upcoming conference he's co-organizing in Livermore, California dedicated to soil virus biology! Hello phage enthusiasts! I want to welcome you to join us in Li

The Bacterial Networks and Interactions group at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) is hiring a PhD student in bacterial antiviral immunity to study secondary metabolites and their role in defending against phages infecting actinobacteria.

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden) is hiring a researcher in parasitic interaction of aquatic microbes to study host-virus dynamics and other parasitic interactions in lake ecosystems using multi-omics analyse

The Lai lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a postdoc to develop new strategies and translatable medicines using phage vectors.

The Atkinson lab at Lund University (Lund, Sweden) is hiring a doctoral student in computational biology of infection to study prophages in E. coli genomes and annotate their genes using high-throughput AlphaFold.

Vulcan Biologics (Claremont, California) is seeking a phage enthusiast to provide crucial leadership and oversight as interim CEO during a pivotal transitional period. The company's founder, Dr. Mike Koeris, has taken on the role of Office

The Luque Lab at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida) is hiring a postdoc in biology to predict the physical properties of uncultured viruses using computational biophysics and multi-scale modeling.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Maryland) is hiring a Research Assistant to support the Science Education Alliance program's research and training activities, focusing on the genetic diversity of the phage population.

Join us for the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference in beautiful Cairns, Australia to hear all about the latest advances in the field and reconnect with friends & colleagues. Early bird registration rates close on the 24th of May, so please

The Phage Bioinformatics Wish List Survey is live! (Thanks to the 31 respondents to date! The data is shaping up to be super informative!) This survey aims to better understand the needs and satisfaction levels of phage biologists regardi

Dr Ameneh Khatami (University of Sydney, Phage Australia) has been awarded $4.3 million to investigate the use of a locally produced two-phage combination that targets S. aureus to see if it provides an advantage in addition to antibiotics

Marie Attwood (University of Leicester) and colleagues published a new preprint on the development of antibacterial drug-plus-phage combination assays. They demonstrate that microbroth methodologies based on ISO 2776 and time-kill curves ca

Could phages play a role in microbial adaptation to spaceflight conditions? Iris Irby and Jared Broddrick (NASA Ames Research Center) have shown that bacterial strains from the International Space Station show significant differences in pha

Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new preprint on systematic genome-wide discovery of host factors governing phage infectivity. They describe 'PHAGEPACK', a novel assay combining CRISPR

Stephanie Lynch (University of Sydney) and colleagues published the results of a survey on clinical needs and attitudes towards phage therapy among the cystic fibrosis community. The study highlights a significant reliance on antibiotics am

Here's the third rendition of our new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to. Hi everyone! It's Phage Picks time! This is a new monthly format we're testing out. These are casual recom

Locus Biosciences (North Carolina, USA) is hiring a Development Scientist to join the team to develop biologics purification processes and formulations, serving as a subject matter expert and lead scientist in partner relationships, and le