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Another feather in the cap for African phage researchers!! Dr. Jerrold Agbankpe was awarded the Iso Lomso Visiting Scholar Award to collaborate with researchers at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study to develop phages as future a

Twitter call-out by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD: "If you live in Cambodia & want to participate in a phage hunt to cure superbug infections common in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients, contact me, Dr. Saima Aslam or IPATH at IPATH@health.ucsd.edu.

Dear Phage aficionados, We are excited to announce the Inaugural Symposium on Bacteriophages and Bacteriophage-derived Technologies to be held on December 10th 2021 in Singapore, jointly organised by Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU)

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!

Missed out on a PHAVES seminar? You can catch up on all the PHAVES at the Phage Directory Youtube. Newly added videos: - Aël Hardy's PHAVES talk on the inhibition of phage infection by antibiotics - Dr. Saima Aslam's PHAVES talk on clinica

Jolien Onsea (University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues have published a study protocol in Viruses on phage therapy for difficult-to-treat infections. This article aims to address the scientific hurdles of phage therapy by using

Eric Brown (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing that gut microbiome ADP-ribosyltransferases are widespread phage-encoded fitness factors. Previously thought to be restricted to pathogens,

Anshul Sinha (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues published a pre-print showing that the transplantation of phages from ulcerative colitis patients shifts the gut bacteriome and exacerbates severity of induced colitis.

Angela Makumi (International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya) and colleagues published a paper in Antibiotics on the potential benefit and challenges of phage therapy for the livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Aa Haeruman Azam (Jichi Medical University, Japan) and colleagues published a review article in Antibiotics on current progress in phage engineering technology and its application in modern medicine.

Greetings, I hope everyone is doing well during these trying times. My name is Jonathan Lalsiamthara, a Post Doc trainee at the Aballay Lab, OHSU, Portland, OR. I am reaching out to the community if anyone will share with us the cystoviruse

The Centre of Microbiome Science (Ohio State University) is organizing a Viromics workshop webinar series (virtual) on October 13-15, 2021. The workshop will cover virus identification and classification tools, and virus databases. See the

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

African Phage Forum (APF) is hosting the sixth session of their webinar series on September 24 at 7 AM EAT/9 AM PDT. Guest speaker Dr. Ivan Liachko will be presenting his talk on "Culture-Free Assembly and Host-Attribution of Phage Genomes

Marion Bichet (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a protocol in Star Protocols for studying phage interactions with in vitro epithelial cell layers. They developed a simplified method for high-titer phage purification an

Graça Pinto (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a research article in FEMS Microbiology ecology on the interactions of phage ace and shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during biocontrol. This work demonstrated that

Andrzej Zielezinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and colleagues published a new preprint describing PHIST, a fast and accurate prediction of prokaryotic hosts from metagenomic viral sequences.

Ian Rambo (University of Texas Austin) and colleagues published a preprint on unique viruses that infect Archaea related to eukaryotes. Here they characterized seven viral genomes that infected Lokiarchaeota, Helarchaeota, and Thorarchaeota

Aisling Brady (University of Glasgow, UK) and colleagues published a review article in Annual Reviews of Microbiology on the molecular basis of lysis–lysogeny decisions in Gram-positive phages. They discuss a variety of mechanisms and the g

The next Phage Phun session will be Wednesday September 29 at 3PM Pacific (an Australian friendly time!). Join us for this informal virtual networking session by registering here. (If you’re already signed up for the PHAVES series or a past