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Jian Li (Monash University, Australia) has an honours project opening on comparative genomic analysis of phages against Gram-negative superbugs.

Europe's EvoInHi (Evolution in the Gut in Health and Disease) project is hiring a postdoc to quantify the tempo and mode of evolution by mutation and horizontal gene transfer, emphasizing phage driven horizontal gene transfer and phage bact

TEAGASC (Ireland) is hiring a PhD researcher to develop and validate new library preparation methods to study phage communities in the rumen of dairy cows.

ARNA Laboratory (University of Bordeaux, France) is offering a bioinformatics internship studying Type I Toxin-Antitoxin systems, which are involved in phage defense.

ISVM General Assembly Meeting is taking place during the Viruses of Microbes conference in Tbilisi, Georgia from 17h30-18h30 on Tuesday, July 4th. This is a great opportunity to get to know the Executive Board, make suggestions and hear wha

The Sullivan lab is hosting the 2023 Viromics Workshop October 11-13, 2023, in-person at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. You can expect deep dives on virus identification, virus taxonomy/classification, databases, ecogenomics pip

The journal 'PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research' has achieved its first impact factor of 2.7. The journal offers immediate deposit to PubMed, a zero-embargo Green Open Access policy, and free 30-day access to share your research wit

PhageLab's CTO, Pablo Cifuentes Palma, was interviewed by the BBC's Jane Chambers on "The Coolest Science in the World" segment of the Unexpected Elements podcast about PhageLab's work with phages (starts at the 29:55 minute mark).

Tom Ireland's new book The Good Virus explores the potential of phages as the future of medicine, including their ability to target tumours with cancer drugs and fight antibiotic-resistant infections.

Mariam Taha (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) and colleagues have published a study on the efficacy of lytic phages combined with vancomycin against S. aureus biofilm-like aggregates in synovial fluid, offering a promising strategy again

Anisha Thanki (University of Leicester, UK) and colleagues have shown that a phage cocktail delivered in chicken feed significantly reduced Salmonella colonization in experimentally-challenged broiler chickens.

Ming Hu (Qingdao University, China) and colleagues have isolated and characterized two novel, highly pH- and temperature-stable jumbo phages and found they have strong potential to eliminate Klebsiella pneumoniae in sewage water.

David Helekal (University of Warwick, UK) and colleagues have published a new model to estimate AMR fitness cost and benefit. They found that two unrelated Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages resistant to fluoroquinolones shared similar epidemic

Naomi Haddock (Stanford University, USA) and colleagues have developed a pipeline to identify phages and their bacterial hosts in cell-free DNA from plasma samples, enabling identification of bacterial pathogens associated with sepsis.

Nature Communications case report of a 41-year-old man with Kartagener syndrome and a life-threatening chronic multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection who was treated successfully with iterative aerosolized phage treatment

This week, Jan starts to apply ideas from the previous Data series to the world of biology work and biology data. Previously in the Data series, I touched on how to think about data and how to work with both tabular data (spreadsheets) and

Intralytix is hiring a Manufacturing/Engineering Technician to support phage research and development.

Miami Health System is hiring a postdoc to study phage-bacteria interactions in aquatic environments and animal-associated microbiomes.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring a postdoc to study phage-mediated plant-microbe interactions.

Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is hiring a Research Fellow to lead studies to evaluate the potency and pharmacokinetics of therapeutic phages in animal models of bacterial infections.