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In a new paper in eLife, Amelia McKitterick (Harvard University) and colleagues used bacteriophages Cog and CL31 to discover host factors important for phage infection of Corynebacterium glutamicum. They identified an important role for myc

Matthew Johnson (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues have developed a computational tool to broadly identify anti-phage systems, which they applied to Pseudomonas aeruginosa genomes.

Oliver Charity (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Genomics on how increased phage resistance through lysogenic conversion accompanies emergence of a Salmonella Typhimurium pandemic strain.

Sabrina Green via Twitter: “Is there an early career researcher that you really enjoyed hearing from in a presentation? Preferably #phage person or microbial virus related?!”

The Ibadan Phage Research Team has released recordings from their recent phage symposium for World Phage Week — check it out!

The Department of Applied Genetics, Karnatak University in association with the Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, India is organizing the 3rd International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance – 20

Emily’s Entourage, a nonprofit foundation that accelerates research for new treatments and a cure for the final 10% of people with cystic fibrosis, including those with nonsense mutations, announced it has awarded $220,000 in funding to Gra

DeepMind's AlphaFold and Meta's ESMFold are two AI-based methods for predicting protein structures. According to this article by Ewen Callaway, DeepMind's method is more accurate but takes longer, while Meta's method is faster but less accu

In this preprint, the authors use microfluidic culture and high resolution microscopy to study how the cellular scale architecture of model 2-species biofilms impacts cell-cell and cell-phage interactions controlling larger scale population

In a new preprint, researchers from the University of Minnesota report on their efforts to catalog human gut phages using metagenome assembly and long-read sequencing.

In this talk, hosted by the Baltimore Underground Science Space, Joelle Woolston (Intralytix, Inc.) provides a brief history of phages, an overview of their mechanisms of action, and a discussion of the many ways the power of phages is bein

My Hero & Me - Different flavors of phage-host prediction powered by machine learning: how and why?: Dimi Boeckaerts and Simon Roux discuss different approaches to building machine learning models for phage-host prediction in this webinar.

Connor Brown on Twitter: "have a set of de novo assembled viral genomes from metagenome and trying to figure out who they are and their potential hosts. very few have BLAST hits against ncbi. any suggestions? #Bioinformatics #metagenomics #

In this episode of the Phage Therapy Today podcast, host Steven Yang sits down with Dr. Steven Theriault from Cytophage Technologies Inc. to discuss how he is building and expanding businesses in both clinical and agricultural markets acros

In a new preprint, Medeea Popescu and colleagues report that the bacteriophage Pf4, produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dampens inflammatory responses in response to either P. aeruginosa airway infection in a mouse model of acute pneumonia

In a new paper in Current Opinion in Microbiology, Aisylu Shaidullina and Alexander Harms present an overview of recent breakthroughs in the systematic investigation of phage-host interactions. They highlight recent work on the molecular ba

This preprint by Séraphine Degroux et al. presents the electron cryo-microscopy structure of bacteriophage T5 RBPpb5 in complex with its E. coli receptor, the iron ferrichrome transporter FhuA.

In a new paper in Nature Microbiology, Benjamin Adler et al. show that the CRISPR-Cas13a protein from Leptotrichia buccalis has robust antiviral activity against a wide range of phages and can be applied as a generalizable tool for editing

Guy Mason and Enrique R. Rojas published a new preprint entitled Mechanical compression induces persistent bacterial growth during bacteriophage predation. The paper discusses how bacteria can grow persistently when perfused with high-titer

Dear ISVM Members, We are pleased to announce the results of our 2022 ISVM Executive Board election. Thank you to 292 of you who participated in the election of the new Board members. The New ISVM Board members for 2023-2024 are listed belo