Search

My name is Gábor Apjok, a PhD student from the Biological Research Centre of Szeged, Hungary. Recently, our hospitals in Hungary have detected multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which we have started to collect. We are familiar wi

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), a clinical-stage US biotech company, just closed a $40.75 million Series B investment round led by Deerfield Management Company (and also including Mayo Clinic). This will enable APT to accelerate clinical

Technophage, a Portuguese clinical-stage biopharma company, announced today that the US FDA has granted Fast Track designation to TP-102, the company’s first phage cocktail, for the treatment of infected diabetic foot ulcers caused by three

Bridget Watson (University of Exeter) and colleagues published a new review in Cell Host & Microbe on coevolution between bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems and their phages. They discuss when and why CRISPR-Cas immunity against phages evolves, a

Adam Wahida (Technical University of Munich) and colleagues published a new minireview on phage-bacteria-eukaryotic relationships and their influence on human health.

Lorenz Leitner (Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zürich) and colleagues published a new paper in Spinal Cord on the potential role of phages in prolonging life after spinal cord injury.

Tiffany Luong (San Diego State University) and colleagues have published a paper called 'Can Viruses Save Lives?' in the Biomedical Science Journal for Teens that describes their analysis of clinical phage therapy reports published in recen

From @PaulJaschke on Twitter: "I'm looking for images of petri dishes with M13 #phage on them. Can anybody help me out? We're trying to test Plaque Size Tool on turbid plaques and (surprisingly) cannot find any on the internet! Thanks!"

The 27th annual Boston Bacterial Meeting is going to be held on June 10-11, 2021 organized by a diverse group of students and post-docs from several institutions. It has talks on Antibiotic Resistance (chaired by John Dekker, National Insti

We hosted Dr. Justin Clark (phage bioinformatician at BCM Tailor Labs) in our recent phage bioinformatics series (co-hosted with IBRC), and many of you have been excitedly waiting for the recording! While unforeseen factors prevented us fro

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

Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens and Dr. Matthew Gilmour (Quadram Institute, Norwich, UK) have won BBSRC partnership awards to collaborate with Canadian researchers! Dr. Adriaenssens’ partnership is with Dr. Hany Anany's lab at Agriculture and Agri

Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper describing INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database (INPHARED): a way to identify large-scale biases in the current collection of phage genomes. It includes a sc

Larissa Kever (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that aminoglycoside antibiotics inhibit phage infection by blocking an early step of the phage infection cycle. Paper | Tweet thread by Aël Ha

Mihnea Mangalea (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing that individuals at risk for rheumatoid arthritis harbor differential intestinal phage communities with distinct

Keiko Salazar (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio showing antiviral resistance and phage counter adaptation to antibiotic-resistant Extraintestinal Pathogenic E. coli.

The World Microbe Forum 2021 (June 20-24, online; an ASM and FEMS collaboration) this year will include a session on viruses of microbes convened by Madalena Pimental and Rob Lavigne, on behalf of the Viruses of Microbes 2020 team and ISVM,

We cordially invite you to participate in the 2nd German Phage Symposium, which will take place Sept 13-14, 2021 at the University of Hohenheim, and will include keynote speakers Prof. Anat Herskovits, Prof. Ian J. Molineux and Prof. Dr. Jo

Next week on Clubhouse Phage Phridays (audio-only, casual drop-in discussions), our guest will be Dominic Sauvageau from the University of Alberta, who will chat with us about the 'phage virulence index' his lab has developed to quantify ph

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