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We are urgently seeking Burkholderia multivorans phages for a cystic fibrosis patient in France Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving the patient's strain and testing your

This week we’re launching Open Phage, a public, editable spreadsheet of phage resources like grants, clinical trials, and bioinformatics/lab tools! Hi everyone, This week I got to tackle a passion project that I’ve wanted to do for a reall

Kiran Bosco (Westmead Institute for Medical Research) and colleagues have reviewed the topic of therapeutic phage monitoring, proposed as an essential element of phage therapy protocols to generate data and fill knowledge gaps regarding the

Jean-Paul Pirnay and colleagues explore the question of whether magistral phage preparations could serve as a model for everyone.

Armata Pharmaceuticals will present positive topline data from the SWARM-P.a. clinical study at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference November 3rd in Phoenix, AZ, highlighting results of their novel inhaled multi-phage therapeutic f

Yi Wu and colleagues have discovered synergistic anti-phage activity of bacterial defence systems, shedding light on the compatibility and flexibility of these systems in response to specific environmental pressures.

G. Eric Bastien and colleagues have developed a machine learning model called Virus-Host Interaction Predictor (VHIP) to predict virus-host interactions and reconstruct complex virus-host networks in natural systems.

Dr Mojgan Rabjey (Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom) is hiring a Phage Researcher to develop effective phage cocktails for precise crop protection measures.

Dr Tobias Bergmiller (Exeter University, UK) is hiring a Phage Researcher to harness the power of synthetic biology to engineer novel lytic phages.

Claudia Igler (University of Manchester) is hiring a postdoc to combine microbiology and biophysics to advance mechanistic understanding of the functional diversity in phage lysis systems and the impact of changes in bacterial cell state an

The Hendrickson laboratory at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) is excited to offer a PhD scholarship opportunity (supervised by Heather Hendrickson and co-supervised by Craig Billington) in Bacteriophage discovery to

Karen Maxwell (University of Toronto) has been awarded the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship for her research into antiviral defenses, which uncovered novel CRISPR inhibitors (anti-CRISPRs), according to a recent announcement by NSERC (Canada).

This week, Libby Duignan tells us about her visit from the UK to Phage Australia, and how she'll be applying what she learned about phage manufacturing in her new role devising phage manufacturing systems in the UK. I reached out to Dr Jess

Lotta-Riina Sundberg (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) is hiring a PhD student to study the role of ecology in molecular mechanisms of phage-host interactions.

Michael Brockhurst (University of Manchester, UK) is hiring a PhD student to engineer synthetic phages to optimize bacterial killing in phage therapy.

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a PhD student to characterize Mycobacteria toxin-antitoxin systems as phage defense and antimicrobial agents.

Antonia Sagona (University of Warwick, UK) is seeking a PhD student to study phage isolation and characterization for clinical applications.

Andrea Fossati just announced that their grant for investigating phage-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactions was funded by Vetenskapsradet (the Swedish Research Council).

Tagide deCarvalho and colleagues at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County have imaged a satellite phage attaching to another phage. Check out their paper, where they’ve described two novel satellite-helper phage systems, Mulch and Fl

The newest issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases features a special collection of articles exploring various aspects of phage therapy, including standardization of phage susceptibility testing, phage annotation and nomenclature, advanced ma