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Happy #WorldPhageWeek everyone! Don't forget to join in the Phage Week #scicomm challenge on Twitter. Keep an eye out on Twitter each day for a new prompt to answer! A selected winner will receive a custom art piece from Dr. Ellie Jameson.

Applications are now open for the Southeast Asia Virtual Phage Workshop which will be hosted in March 2022 by the NGO Phages for Global Health. Topics and activities will include: - Learning essential aspects of phage biology - Exploring e

Thank you to everyone that joined us for our October PHAVES, which was a talk by Bjorn Criel on the PhaLP database for phage lytic proteins that their group has developed — watch the recording here! If you miss any of the PHAVES events you

Viruses modulate carbon cycling, but it's been unknown whether they're active under winter conditions. Gareth Trubl (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) and colleagues published a new paper on active virus-host interactions at sub-freezing tem

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and colleagues published a new paper in The ISME Journal describing phages in the infant gut: a framework for virome development during early life.

Elhanan Tzipilevich (Duke University) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio showing how phage-resistant bacteria reveal a role for potassium in root colonization.

Lyman Ngiam (University of Queensland) and colleagues published a paper in Environmental Microbiology showing that phages isolated from non-target bacteria demonstrate broad host range infectivity against multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Shen-Yuan Hsieh (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing a comparison of PCR vs. PCR-free DNA library preparation for characterising the human faecal virome.

Last chance to get your phage bioinformatics manuscript into PHAGE Journal's special phage AI and informatics issue! If you're working on AI in phage biology or therapy, or tools for host discovery, prediction, etc, submit your manuscript b

Jessica Sacher will chair the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday Oct 27 at 9AM Pacific. Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past Pha

Want to build leadership experience in a fun and low-key setting? If you'd like to chair a future Phage Phun (or PHAVES) event, email phagephun@phage.directory! We'll equip you with everything you need to know, and take care of all the tech

Intralytix, Inc. announced that its food safety product, CampyShield™, has received GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) recognition from the FDA. CampyShield™ contains naturally occurring lytic phages that selectively and specifically kill

The European Food Safety Authority panel published a new paper in EFSA Journal delivering a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting on a set of phages infecting Salmonella gallinarum (Bafasal®) for all av

Austen Terwilliger (TAILOR Labs, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas) and colleagues have published a new paper in Viruses on phage therapy related microbial succession associated with successful clinical outcome for a recurrent urinary tract

Erin Attrill (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS Biology showing individual bacteria in structured environments rely on phenotypic resistance to phage.

Anne Chevallereau (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a review in Nature Reviews Microbiology showing interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments.

Today on the Clubhouse Phage Phridays at 2PM Eastern, Jessica and Jan from Phage Directory will continue last week's discussion on the State of Phage Survey results; come ask all your questions about what we found about who's collecting whi

Twitter call-out from Barbara Brenner; phages-to-patients: We are looking for experts to draft (inter-)national guidelines on phage therapy for medical doctors and clinics treating all aspects from "who can get it" over "how is it to be app

Jessica Sacher will chair the next Phage Phun session, which will be Wednesday Oct 27 at 9AM Pacific. Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past Pha

To celebrate Phage Week (22-28 October), Phage Directory is holding a Twitter #scicomm challenge! To participate, all you need to do is create Twitter posts that align with the daily prompts (e.g. tag your favourite phage people, tag your f