Search

The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester has a self-funded opening for a PhD student to investigate the ecological states of phage communities and their impact on host-associated microbiomes.

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 World Health Organization (WHO) is hosting a webinar on environmental use of phages on May 16. This is the third and final in the series exploring the broader use of phages from an AMR One Health perspective. Watch the first two in the

Registration is now open for the 2024 International Soil Virus Conference! Soil virologists and enthusiasts will gather to explore the multifaceted roles of soil viruses within a One Health framework, with a special focus on meta-omics cha

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

From David Bikard via Twitter: Hello phage phriends. Do you have examples of anti-phage defense systems that were shown to tolerate lysogeny but target the phage when it enters its lytic cycle ? (beyond type III CRISPR)

Catherine Hernandez (University of California, Berkeley) provides evidence supporting the role of coevolution in maintaining diversity among phages, revealing that coevolved phages have more mutations and greater congruence across populatio

Wanangwa Ndovie (Jagiellonian University) and colleagues published a new preprint on rapid, accurate estimation of genetic relatedness between millions of viral genome pairs using a new tool called MANIAC.

Despite their unique biology and biotech potential, only a small number of plasmid-dependent phages have been characterized. Natalia Quinones-Olvera (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published the results of their recent systematic se

Jun-Tao Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China) colleagues have shown the structural basis for phage-mediated activation and repression of the anti-phage defense system DSR2. They use cryoEM to show how DSR2 interacts w

Bradley Schmitz (National University of Singapore) and colleagues have established criteria for identifying good surrogates for water reuse, including 11 viruses, 2 phages, and 3 bacteria.

Braunstein and colleagues report in The Veterinary Quarterly the personalized phage-antibiotic treatment of a cat with a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa implant-associated infection after arthrodesis surgery: a tailored anti-P. a

This week we've got an interview with Jeremy Barr on what to expect this year at the Viruses of Microbes conference in Cairns, Australia! From Great Barrier Reef, to crocodile jet ski stories, to special ways they're making the conference f

University of Leicester, United Kingdom is hiring a Senior Research Technician to screen phages against Moraxella bovis, a pathogen that causes Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis.

Hanna Oksanen’s group at the University of Helsinki, Finland has a Horizon Europe MCSA funded position open for a PhD student to study archaeal virus host recognition and infection.

FDA is hiring a postdoc to develop and characterize a phage therapy for decolonizing vancomycin-resistant Enterococci.

The Environmental Microbial Group at the University of Copenhagen is offering a 21-month postdoc position within the field of bacteria-phage interactions.

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

Texas Medical Center is hiring a Research Assistant I/II - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics to contribute to phage research and molecular genetics.

The Innovative Genomics Institute (University of California Berkeley) is hiring a Research Technician to assist with experiments, such as phage and microbial genetic screens.