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Christopher Turkington (University of California, Merced) and colleagues published a preprint on hafeZ, a tool able to identify ‘active’ prophages within bacterial genomes through genomic read mapping. They've applied hafeZ to publicly avai

Quentin Leclerc (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and colleagues published a preprint on the dual nature of phage: growth-dependent predation and generalized transduction of antimicrobial resistance. They developed mathematical

Kristen LeGault (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a paper in Science on how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern phage-pathogen conflicts. They used time-shift experiments to look at co-evolut

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

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

PhReD Database is relaunching! The Phage Receptor Database (PhReD) compiles receptors involved in phage-host recognition. We are proud to have partnered with the Bio-conversion Databank Foundation (BioDF) to relaunch and continuously impr

Hello everybody! I was wondering if someone has on their collection or knows someone that has the phiCTX phage from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. I am looking for a cos-type phage in PA and it seems that’s one of the few well characterised. — Ro

Volta Labs is automating Next Generation Sequencing sample prep (for Illumina, Oxford Nanopore and Pac Bio). They recognize that increasing the throughput (and lowering the cost) of sequencing will become critical to the phage field moving

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for the 24th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting (and first time as a hybrid physical/virtual meeting!), which is wrapping up today! We had an incredible time with all of you! For all of

Jonathan Lynch (University of Hawaii, USA) and colleagues published a preprint on host- and bacterium-based determinants that protect squid-associated Vibrio fischeri from phage predation. They show that mutations in V. fischeri's exopolysa

Matthew Bond (Dartmouth College, USA) published a paper in eLife on how matrix-trapped viruses can prevent invasion of bacterial biofilms by colonizing cells. They showed that T7 phage remains viable when trapped in an E. coli biofilm, and

Audrey Labarde (Université Paris-Saclay, France) and colleagues published a paper in PNAS on temporal compartmentalization of viral infection in bacterial cells. They showed that infection of Bacillus subtilis by phage SPP1 hijacks host rep

Kema Malki (University of South Florida) and colleagues published a paper in AEM on spatial and temporal dynamics of prokaryotic and viral community assemblages in a lotic system. They looked at prokaryotic and viral abundance and diversity

Rosanna Wright (University of Manchester, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how functional diversity increases efficacy of phage combinations. Their findings suggest that functional diversity is the key to effective phage combinati

The 24th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting is coming up in a few days (Aug 2-5, plus workshop days on Aug 1 and 6)! The schedule is up on https://evergreen.phage.directory if you'd like to check it out! And it's not too late t

OnePetri for iOS is now publicly available — accelerating common Petri dish assays with the power of AI! Count hundreds of phage plaques in a matter of seconds and easily perform plaque assay calculations in the palm of your hand. Support f

The Sullivan Lab at OSU has announced that the next OSU Viromics Workshop will be 13-15 October 2021 in Columbus Ohio. Full agenda and application information coming soon!

Want to learn more about phage training? The Phage Phridays Clubhouse team has posted their most recent recording, How to Train a Phage, part 2, which featured Dr. Ville-Petri Friman. Missed part 1? This was a chat with Josh Borin, who shar

Thanks to all who came out to hear from Dr. Gina Suh and John Haverty for PHAVES #20 last week! Gina and John graciously shared their combined 'doctor-patient experience' with phage therapy — such an enlightening session! Recording now avai

BCM TAILOR Labs created a video that explains how clinicians can apply for expanded access or compassionate-use approval of phage therapy in the US through the FDA.