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Phage Canada is hosting our 2022 (Virtual) Symposia, August 17-20th. Over three half-days, we will feature (I) Undergraduate Education & Research, (II) Graduate & Post Graduate Research, and (III) Career Opportunities in Phage Research. The

This registration is for the virtual portion of the 2022 Viromics Workshop held at OSU, May 11-13. On the first day (May 11), there will be a mini-symposium, consisting of four talks from our teaching staff. These will be broadcasted live v

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team (IBRT) is setting up a Twitter space event to discuss Undergraduate Phage Research in Africa via the team's Twitter handle. Topic: Undergraduate Phage Research in Africa: Success stories and Challenge

UltraRare Bio on Twitter: "Our latest podcast episode is live! Learn about how a decentralized network of researchers and doctors find cures for drug-resistant infections w/ @phagedirectory founders @JessicaSacher and @yawnxyz"

Paper: Two defense systems eliminate plasmids from seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae

Blog: Antibiotic-resistant acne could be treated by phage therapy

Pre-print: MetaPhage: an automated pipeline for analyzing, annotating, and classifying bacteriophages in metagenomics sequencing data

Paper: Modelling of filamentous phage-induced antibiotic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Paper: The chronic wound phageome: phage diversity and associations with wounds and healing outcomes

Missed out on the last Phage Phriday Clubhouse? Check out the recording to hear Adriana Carolina, Sabrina Green and Paul Pirnay talk about GMP phage production with Milan Bunata of MB Pharma.

IPATH is honored to announce that the Mallory Smith Legacy Fund has directed another generous gift of $50,000 to IPATH that will help to fund important phage therapy research focused on cystic fibrosis patients.

Paper: Potential role of the host-derived cell-wall binding domain of endolysin CD16/50L as a molecular anchor in preservation of uninfected Clostridioides difficile for new rounds of phage infection.

Paper: A novel and ubiquitous marine methylophage gives insights into viral-host coevolution and host-range expansion

Pre-print: RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas13 provides broad-spectrum phage immunity

Review: Interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments

Phage researchers came together in Nairobi recently for a symposium entitled the "Status of Bacteriophage Research in Kenya". This exciting event — the first national phage meeting in Africa — was co-hosted by the Kenya Medical Research Ins

Funding: The AMR Action fund has invested $20 million in Adaptive Phage Therapeutics. Congrats APT!

Paper: Phage therapy as postoperative prophylaxis against Enterococcus faecalis after cataract surgery in rabbits

Paper: Phages and their satellites encode hotspots of antiviral systems

Paper: Screening for highly transduced genes in Staphylococcus aureus revealed both lateral and specialized transduction