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The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

Twitter call-out from Michael Laub; Question for phage tweeps: does EOP stand for 'efficiency of plating' or 'efficiency of plaquing'? I've seen both in the literature. Am hoping this one doesn't stoke emotions comparable to the argument ab

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

For PHAVES #23 next week (Oct 12 at 9AM CEST), Bjorn Criel, PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, the Laboratory of Applied Biotechnology, at Ghent University, will give a talk on PhaLP: A Database for the Study of Phage Lytic Proteins and The

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2021 with a webinar series on October 29 (3-5PM West African Time) and Oct 30 (1-4PM West African Time). The theme will be "Assessing the Readiness of the Global Phage C

Head on over to Twitter to follow Dr. Ellie Jameson for #InkTober2021 where Ellie uploads a new phage drawing, cartoon or animation everyday!

Clay Crippen (University of Georgia) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on RNA and Sugars as unique properties of phages infecting multidrug resistant Acinetobacter radioresistens.

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity. Check out this awesome Twitter thread by Jay Hinton about the discover

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and Corinne Maurice published a new pre-print on bioRxiv on the app they developed called OnePetri: accelerating common bacteriophage Petri dish assays with computer vision. Check out the behind the app a

Anders Nørgaard Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal showing subtypes of tail spike proteins predicts the host range of Ackermannviridae phages.

Jessica Sacher (University of Alberta) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing that reduced infection efficiency of phage NCTC 12673 on non-motile Campylobacter jejuni strains is related to oxidative stress. They uncovered a

Twitter call out from Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team: Would you like to be a part of the #WorldPhageWeek Celebration (coming up in late October 2021) as an organization or a genomic company? You can do this through the following: • Spo

Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Barr who was named a 2021 Victorian Tall Poppy Award winner! The Tall Poppy Award was created to recognise Australian intellectual and scientific excellence. Dr. Barr leads a 14-member research group at Monash

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics was awarded an additional $8 Million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for the continued development of phage therapies for the treatment of infectious diseases. The new funding brings the total DoD contr

Necrotizing enterocolitis is a currently unpreventable life-threatening GI disorder of preterm infants. Fecal microbiota transplantation is promising, but risks transfer of pathogenic microbes. Anders Brunse (University of Copenhagen, Denma

Elyse Stachler (Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing phage treatment before chemical disinfection can enhance removal of pla

Aisling Brady (University of Glasgow, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology showing that the arbitrium system controls prophage induction. This mechanism was explored in Bacillus subtilis.

Shiraz Shah (Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing hundreds of viral families in the healthy infant gut. These results were obtained from sequencing and analysing fecal viromes from

For our next PHAVES (Tues, Oct 5 at 9AM CEST) we have Bjorn Criel, a PhD student in Yves Briers’ group, who will be talking about PhaLP: a database of Phage Lytic Proteins. Register for this and all upcoming seminars here!

Question for the phage community via Twitter from Alexander Hynes, Assist. Prof. at McMaster University: "I've been seeing more phage characterization papers that "optimize MOI" for higher titres. Why? I don't see biological insight, and wh