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Rebekah Dedrick (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Medicine on how antibody-mediated neutralization limited phage treatment of a pulmonary M. abscessus infection. They used the same phages that worked

Matthias Hoetzinger (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and colleagues published a paper in Environmental Microbiology on how the dynamics of Baltic Sea phages are driven by environmental changes. They isolated 121 phage strains infecting three b

Hayley Nordstrom (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) and colleagues published a preprint showing genomic and functional characterization of P. aeruginosa-targeting phages isolated from hospital wastewater. They used a panel of cli

Karen Fong (Summerland Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues published a review article in PHAGE on the host range of phages and its impact on the agri-food sector. They discuss the research pro

Diana Pires (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a review in Annual Review of Virology on understanding the complex phage-host interactions in biofilm communities. They summarize the main features affecting phage-biofilm

Note: date/time change! For PHAVES #20 next week, Dr. Gina Suh, MD (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) and John Haverty will present a doctor-patient experience with phage therapy on July 22 at 2:30 PM Eastern! Gina treated John's leg with phages

Sabrina Green (Baylor College of Medicine, Australia) has created a Facebook group Phage Phridays at Clubhouse. Join the group to get updates on exciting phage-related talks from phage researchers every Friday, and to catc

Felix Biotechnology announced a new collaboration with high-tech skincare company Biocogent. The project is focused on developing novel, chemical-free and safe phage-based solutions to target problematic bacteria in the skin microbiome.

Whitney Greene (Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, Florida) and colleagues published a paper in the Journal of Aquatic Animal Health describing the successful treatment of Shelley* the sea turtle with phages! *Some of you may remember us

Nichith Ratheesh (Arizona State University) published a preprint on how a member of the oral microbiota can actively transport phages by swarming, leading to disruption of E. coli biofilms. They found that Capnocytophaga gingivalis forms tu

Ankita Kothari (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) and colleagues published a paper in mSystems on how ecogenomics of groundwater phages suggests niche differentiation is linked to specific environmental tolerance. They analyzed gr

Nicholas Swanson (Thomas Jefferson University, USA) and colleagues published a paper in Molecular Cell on the cryo-EM structure of the periplasmic tunnel of the T7 DNA-ejectosome. They reconstituted the phage T7 DNA-ejectosome components an

Note: date/time change! For PHAVES #20 next week, Dr. Gina Suh, MD (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) and John Haverty will present a doctor-patient experience with phage therapy on July 22 at 2:30 PM Eastern! Gina treated John's leg with phages

Call any and all US phage researchers. Does anyone have 500ml Nalgene Polycarbonate centrifuge bottles (3122-0500 or 3140-0500 from Thermo). They are needed for an emergency phage treatment. Contact James Gurney if you can help; and/or plea

The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (Kids Research) is excited to present the 4th webinar in their Advanced Therapeutics webinar series, "When a Virus is the Cure – phage therapy & mini lungs", which will focus on phage therapy and airw

ModelMEMS (Modelling Microbial Ecology at Multiple Scales) is hosting its second tutorial (virtually) Aug 17th (3-6 pm): "Exploring bacterial and phage interactions with dynamical models" Hilje Doekes will give the next tutorial in August,

The Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting will be held virtually on August 2, 2021. Register for free here. The conference is calling for the submission of oral and poster abstract submissions (schedule to be announced soon).

Xiaorong Wu (The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio on how phage T4 escapes CRISPR attack by 'minihomology' (very short stretches of sequence identity) recombination and repair. This

Bjorn Criel (Ghent University, Belgium) and colleagues published a research article in Viruses on PhaLP: a database for the study of phage lytic proteins and their evolution. This database serves as an open portal to facilitate the developm

Anna Dragoš (Technical University of Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology on how phages carry interbacterial weapons encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters. They investigated phage-encoded Biosynthetic Gene Cluste