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Cell wall deficiency may limit the efficacy of phage therapy.

A temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management components.

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference finally taking place summer 2022 in Portugal (after being rescheduled from 2020). In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM),

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference finally taking place summer 2022 in Portugal (after being rescheduled from 2020). In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM),

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference finally taking place summer 2022 in Portugal (after being rescheduled from 2020). In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM),

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team, an undergraduate SEA-PHAGES team at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria announces the launch of its first journal issue PHAMILIA. The first undergraduate research journal in bacteriophage biology showca

Stephanie Lynch will chair the next Phage Phun session, which will be Thursday Nov 25 at 10AM AEST (Wed Nov 24, 3PM Pacific time). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for th

Erica Birkholz (University of California, San Diego) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing a cytoskeletal vortex drives phage nucleus rotation during jumbo phage replication in E. coli.

Fatima Aysha Hussain (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts) and colleagues published a new paper in Science showing rapid evolutionary turnover of mobile genetic elements drives bacterial resistance to phages.

Lore Van Espen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems showing a previously undescribed highly prevalent phage identified in a Danish enteric virome catalog

Rashedul Islama (Guelph Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition a systematic review from basics to omics on bacteriophage applications in poultry production and pro

Ying Liu (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS Biology on diversity, taxonomy, and evolution of archaeal viruses of the class Caudoviricetes.

Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2022, the conference finally taking place this summer in Portugal - after being rescheduled from 2020. In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganis

The next Phage Phun is Wed, Nov 24 at 9AM Pacific! Phage Phun: informal, self-serve Zoom breakout rooms, where you can hop between topic-based rooms and meet new phage phriends! At Evergreen we had rooms like ‘Catching up with phriends’, ‘P

The Ohio State University (OSU) Centre of Microbiome Science in collaboration with European Virus Bioinformatics Center and Emergent Ecosystems Response to Change (EMERGE) have launched an ECR-focused virome series. Nominate speakers in the

Hany Anany, Antonet Svircev and Eeva Vainio and I (Paul Hyman) are editing a research topic in Frontiers in Microbiology titled “Beyond humans - virus therapy for pathogens of animals and plants” to highlight work with other systems besides

BioNTech SE has acquired PhagoMed GmbH! PhagoMed is a Vienna, Austria-based phage lysin and phage therapy company. The partnership of PhagoMed with BioNTech will further advance the synthetic lysin technology (LysinBuilder).

Maria Loose (Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics showing natural bred ε2-phages have improved host range and virulence against uropathogenic Escherichia coli over their ancestor pha

Sean Meaden (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology showing high viral abundance and low diversity are associated with increased CRISPR-Cas prevalence across microbial ecosystems.

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School, USA) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity.