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For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the Director of the Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases service, will give talk entitled 'Clinical phage therapy: L

#Women_in_Bacteriophage will start recruiting social media coordinator volunteers. If you are interested, send an email to: womeninphage@gmail.com or talk to Fatma via Twitter.

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

Stephanie Lynch will host the next Phage Phun session, which 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 u

Felix Biotechnology was awarded an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant for $256,000 to further enhance their machine learning-based approach for engineering phage as a novel treatment for drug-resistant bacterial inf

Pawel Markwitz (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in ISME on genome-driven elucidation of phage-host interplay and the impact of phage resistance evolution on bacterial fitness. They systematically assessed

Jennifer Mahony (University College Cork, Ireland) published a commentary in mSystems on the use of cell surface polysaccharides as a common strategy for phage adsorption. She discussed how identification of common host recognition and bind

Xin You (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany) and colleagues published a preprint on phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria. They report the ability of hyphal-riding bacteria to transport lytic phages and utilize th

Olivia Williams Barber (Northwestern University, USA) and colleagues published a minireview in mSystems on how the future of phage therapy will promote antimicrobial susceptibility. They examined bacterial resistance mechanisms, the current

As part of the 'Meet-a-Scientist' series, the Science Journal for Kids and Teens interviewed Tiffany Luong, PhD student and a phage scientist at San Diego State University. Check out the interview here to find out more about 'Can virsues sa

Stephanie Lynch will host the next Phage Phun session, which 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 u

For PHAVES #21, Aël Hardy, PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, will give a talk entitled 'Molecular multitasking: inhibition of phage infection by aminoglycoside antibiotics' on September 7 at 6PM CEST! Register here! (If you'

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

Did you miss our special Wednesday edition of Phage Phriday AKA Phage Phwednesdays? No worries! It is now available on YouTube. Check out what's going on Down Under! Here Adriana Carolina Hernandez interviews Dr. Jon Iredell and other Phage

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) has signed a licensing agreement with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research to gain access to its phage database. The deal is synergistic with APT's ongoing partnership with the US Navy.

Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new review in Annual Review of Medicine on phage therapy for antibiotic-resistant bacterial Infections. They conclude that given the strong safety profiles of phages, the

Dror Shitrit (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) and colleagues published a paper in ISME Journal on how genetic engineering of marine cyanophages reveals integration but not lysogeny in T7-like cyanophages. They developed a method of

Mar Pérez-Ruiz (National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS on how phage T7 core components assemble to allow DNA translocation across the bacterial envelope. They solved the structures of the core pro

The Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV have published an update of taxonomy changes from 2020-2021 in Archives of Virology. They've created or redefined a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 su