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The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022 (ViBioM 2022) will be held in Valencia, Spain, 24–25 March 2022. The meeting (currently planned to be in-person) is jointly organized by the European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), th

Wondering whether collecting and studying phages is worth your while? Here's a new article in Cystic Fibrosis News Today that remembers Mallory Smith, a young woman who phages could have saved, if they'd only been accessible a few days earl

Carlos Guerrero-Bustamante (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio showing their progress toward developing a phage cocktail for tuberculosis; using genome engineering and phage genetics, they have created a

Graça Pinto (University of Minho) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Genomics showing insights into the genome architecture and evolution of Shiga toxin encoding phages of E. coli.

Tristan Ferry (Hospices Civils de Lyon) and colleagues published a new case report in Frontiers in Medicine describing the combination of arthroscopic “Debridement Antibiotics and Implant Retention” (DAIR) with local injection of personaliz

Shakhinur Islam Mondal (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in International Journal of Molecular Sciences that characterizes a Clostridioides difficile-specific endolysin that affects spore outgrowth.

Thanks to all those who attended PHAVES #17 this week, where Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, presented their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for rec

The African Phage Forum (APF) will host its fourth event next week, May 26 at 6-8PM East Africa Time (8-10AM Pacific time). The guest speaker will be Dr. Arshnee Moodley, who will give a talk entitled 'Challenges of using phages in the vete

The Phage Virus Assembly conference (#PVA2021) will take place online July 27–30, 14:00–18:00 (BST, GMT+1:00). Register for the conference here. Submit your abstracts by May 31!

We warmly invite you to attend our 11th annual international bacteriophage conference “Phages 2021” – the longest running phage conferences series in Europe - which will be held virtually, via Zoom or equivalent, on 07th-08th September 2021

Check out this podcast interview with Felix Biotech co-founder and CEO, Rob McBride, who talks about how phage can be used to combat urgent microbial challenges in human health and beyond!

The NSW Government, Australian Federal Government and industry partners have committed $3 Million to launch “Phage Australia”. The project, led by Prof. Jonathan Iredell at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, along with colleagues

Danielle Campbell (University of Illinois) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Reports showing that infection with Bacteroides phage BV01 alters the host transcriptome and bile acid metabolism. News article | Paper

Wai Hoe Chin (Monash University) and colleagues published a new preprint showing phage adaptation to a mammalian mucosa reveals a trans–domain evolutionary axis. Paper | Tweet thread

Betty Shen (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and colleagues published a new paper in Structure showing coordination of phage genome degradation versus host genome protection by a bifunctional restriction-modification enzyme visualize

Colin Lam (Roche Molecular Systems) and colleagues published a new paper in ACS Synthetic Biology showing a tail fiber engineering platform for improved bacterial transduction-based diagnostic reagents.

We warmly invite you to attend our 11th annual international bacteriophage conference “Phages 2021” – the longest running phage conferences series in Europe - which will be held virtually, via Zoom or equivalent, on 07th-08th September 2021

Thanks so much to everyone who attended PHAVES #16 this week! Here's the recording! Dr. Greg Canfield and Dr. Laura Damioli from the CU Anschutz and CU Denver gave a fantastic joint talk entitled: Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvag

PHAVES #17 will be May 18, 5pm CEST (Paris time). Quentin Lamy-Besnier, a PhD student in the Debarbieux lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris will present their team's newly launched Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, a

Has anyone in the community used/heard of an automated system that does plaque identification, picking, and subculturing? Please email jessica@phage.directory with suggestions/links — thanks!