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The newly formed Belgian Society for Viruses of Microbes is excited to announce a 1-day inaugural symposium on Sept 23rd, 2022 in Leuven, Belgium! In parallel, the BSVoM team is guest-editing a special issue in Viruses. They call on all Be

News: LyseNTech, a Korean phage company led by Heejoon Myung, was named a leading research institute by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. LyseNTech aims to develop 'LNT103', a phage-derived endolysin, as an inhaled treatmen

Paper: Evading while invading: induction of CRISPR-Cas by mucin as a mean to escape phages adhered to mucus.

Paper: Bacteriostatic effects of phage F23s1 and its endolysin on Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

Pre-print: The defence island repertoire of the Escherichia coli pan-genome.

Pre-print: Temperate phage-antibiotic synergy across antibiotic classes reveals new mechanism for preventing lysogeny.

Paper: Gut virome profiling identifies a widespread bacteriophage family associated with metabolic syndrome.

Paper: Effect of freeze drying, spray drying and electrospraying on the morphological, thermal, and structural properties of powders containing phage Felix O1 and activity of phage Felix O1 during storage.

Paper: Widespread phages of endosymbionts: Phage WO genomics and the proposed taxonomic classification of Symbioviridae.

Paper: Bacteriophage-mediated perturbation of defined bacterial communities in an in vitro model of the human gut.

Review: Novel antimicrobial agents for combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

INCATE, the Incubator for Antibacterial Therapies in Europe, INCATE brings together translational and basic research, industry, experienced entrepreneurs and investors to accelerate your innovation. We do this by providing advice, community

I was wondering if anyone has a library (small or large) of Campylobacter phages and willing to share. If yes, please contact me at jyot.antani@yale.edu.

Baylor College of Medicine is putting out a reverse phage alert. If you need phage for patients we have some purified, USP certified, sequenced and endotoxin quantified ready for use! - 2 phage cocktails for E. coli - 1 phage cocktail for

The Targeting Infectious Diseases Committee is hosting the 6th World Conference on Targeting Phage & Antibiotic Resistance November 24-25 2022 in Paris, France & online. The 2-day meeting will gather leading experts from around the world t

Phase Genomics raised $5.5M from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation & NIH to catalog the viruses that infect bacteria. The resulting database could be used to develop new therapeutics & build a surveillance system to detect & respond to

Paper: Identification of phage receptor-binding protein sequences with hidden markov models and an extreme gradient boosting classifier. Twitter thread: ‘AI vs. bioinformatics’ — find out which one won!.

Tool: Pharokka, a dedicated fast phage annotation tool inspired by prokka. Pharokka is designed for users who want one-line, rapid, standarised and scalable phage annotations, much like prokka for prokaryotes.

Paper: Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes.

Blog: Using viruses to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections | National Institutes of Health (NIH).