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US Representative Morgan Griffith recently discussed the potential of phage therapy to combat antimicrobial resistance at the April 28, 2023 U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations meeting.

In a new article in Nature Reviews Microbiology, Héloïse Georjon & Aude Bernheim explore the diverse antiphage defense systems of bacteria, including nucleases, helicases, and proteases.

Jiemin Du, Susanne Meile (ETH Zurich) and colleagues have engineered phages to produce and release antimicrobial effectors, creating a promising alternative to conventional antibiotics for UTIs.

In a new preprint, Rubén Barcia-Cruz (Sorbonne Université) and colleagues describe a new family of satellites called PICMI associated with marine virulent phages.

Check out iPHoP, a new program that combines and evaluates predictions to reliably match phages with their archaea and bacteria hosts.

University of Idaho is hiring a Research Scientist I or II in phage therapy to advance the principles of phage therapy and evolution for the treatment and prevention of infections.

Phages for Global Health is seeking a Volunteer Design Consultant to help develop a relatively simple image/drawing that describes the organization's four pillars and how they fit together toward accomplishing its overall mission. PGH would

University of Miami, USA is hiring a postdoc to investigate phage-bacteria interactions in South Florida ecosystems, with a focus on coral reefs, Sargassum blooms, and the Everglades.

The Ohio State University is hiring a postdoc to assist in coordinating datasets and associated laboratory activities for both microbial and phage banks, and to support research and development component of phage processing experiments.

I am a Ph.D. graduate in Phage Biology and Therapy seeking a postdoctoral position in phage research. My research expertise lies in the pre-clinical assessment of phages with a focus on phage therapy. I have valuable experience from working

This week Amanda Burkardt, CEO of the new phage therapy company, PHIOGEN (a spinoff of Baylor College of Medicine and based on the innovations of TAILOR Labs) shares their plans for the company. ## A Global Vision of an Infection-free Human

The Evergreen International Phage Meeting is happening Aug 6-11, 2023, live in Olympia, Washington, USA! This is an in-person meeting, better known as Phage Camp! Come present your phage work, climb mountains with other phage scientists, pl

Evelien Adriaenssens at the Quadram Institute, Norwich, UK is hiring a Research Scientist to analyze the virome of longitudinal gut microbiome studies, as well study as the use of phages to prevent food-borne illness. The role will be parti

Vivek Mutalik at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is looking for postdoc researchers to study diverse aspects of phage-host interactions. Check out this Twitter thread and message Vivek if interested.

Developing Scientific Guidelines for Phage Banks The next meeting for this project will be held on August 6th at Evergreen State College and will be accessible online. We will continue to brainstorm about the topics that should be covered

Hello, I’m working on my bachelor’s thesis and I need specific information about phage and bacterial genetics. Do you know or could you help me find sources, if it is possible for bacteria to acquire and use phage genes for their own benefi

The first NIH-funded phage therapy clinical trial has successfully enrolled the first six patients in Stage 1 for safety and microbiological activity, with no serious adverse events reported, and is now moving into Stage 2a, aiming to enrol

The Ohio State University and IPATH were awarded $175k from the Herbert W. Hoover Foundation to address AMR through phage therapy, with students in OSU’s Science Education Alliance-LAB undergraduate program isolating and characterizing phag

A new preprint by Martin Plymouth, Stephanie Lynch and colleagues investigates the attitudes of Australian infectious diseases physicians towards phage therapy.

Phynteny, a synteny-based annotation tool for phage genes, has been developed by @susiegriggo_ to assign hypothetical phage proteins to a PHROG category based on gene order conservation.