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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'

Thanks so much to all who joined us for our very first Phage Phun hour this week! We'll be hosting these monthly, at alternating times (9AM Pacific, then 3PM Pacific, repeating) on the last Wednesday of each month! Next month will be Wed, S

US phage biotech company Intralytix received a Fast Track NIH SBIR contract to develop a universal, scale-independent AI-based platform for manufacturing high titer phage preparations for clinical applications. Intralytix will receive a Pha

Michael Shamash (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues published a perspective in ISME Journal on phages in the infant gut. They propose a theoretical framework governing early childhood gut virome assembly and development, which depend

Nicole Rutbeek (University of Manitoba, Canada) and colleagues published a research article in JBC on the molecular mechanism of quorum sensing inhibition in Streptococcus by the phage protein paratox. They demonstrated an example of conver

Michael Roach (Flinders University) and colleagues published a new paper in F1000 Research entitled Philympics: Prophage Predictions Perplex Programs. They present a library of gold-standard bacterial genome annotations that include manuall

Kristopher Kieft (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) published a paper in Cell Reports on virus-associated organosulfur metabolism in human and environmental systems. They reported the discovery of 39 gene families involved in organosulf

We had so much fun with you all at the 'Phage Phun' sessions at Evergreen, that we've decided to incorporate these at the end of each month for the phage community at large! Our first 'Phage Phun' session will be this coming Wednesday, Aug

Rebecca Wattam of PATRIC (alongside Ramy Aziz) taught an incredibly helpful phage genome annotation workshop at the Evergreen phage meeting earlier this month. Did you know Rebecca has also created a Coursera course on Bacterial Bioinformat

Phages for Global Health and their phage development work in Africa was covered in this C&EN Chemical Engineering News piece. It gets into what prompted Tobi Nagel to start PGH, and illustrates some exciting agricultural phage work they're

Daniel Gelman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in The Lancet Microbe entitled Clinical Phage Microbiology: a suggested framework and recommendations for the in-vitro matching steps of phage therapy. This

Janina Rahlff (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and colleagues published a paper in Nature Communications on how lytic archaeal viruses infect abundant primary producers in Earth’s crust. They used a combination of metagenomics and a

Sooyeon Song (Pennsylvania State Universtiy, Pennsylvania) and colleagues published a preprint on how CRISPR-Cas controls cryptic prophages. They demonstrated that the E. coli CRISPR-Cas system is active and inhibits its nine defective prop

Xiaoqing Wang (Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, China) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage resistance mechanisms increase colistin sensitivity in Acinetobacter baumannii.

Interested in contributing a blog post about your phage work (or your phage initiative) to C&T? Check out our Guest Writer Guide! In keeping with our 4x per year draft submission deadline system, our next deadline is approaching! - For Ja

Ricardo Pascal, a bioinformatics engineer in Denmark, is tracking the phage software ecosystem. Feel free to add a link or two to his list!

Dr. Chip Schooley is leading an International Antiviral Society-USA webinar on phage therapy Aug 17 at 10AM. This is designed for clinical decision makers actively involved in HIV care and research, including physicians, physician assistant

We had so much fun with you all at the 'Phage Phun' sessions at Evergreen, that we've decided to incorporate these at the end of each month for the phage community at large! We will announce the first one soon! Phage Phun: informal, self-s

Proteon Pharmaceuticals announced an investment of 21 million Euro to accelerate commercialization of its phage products, which aim to reduce reliance on antibiotics in aquaculture and livestock farming, improve on-farm performance and incr

Ameneh Khatami (The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in EMBO Molecular Medicine on bacterial lysis, autophagy and innate immune responses during adjunctive phage therapy in a chi