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Ruby Lin (Westmead Institute for Medical Research) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Opinion in Biotechnology detailing their vision for a nationally-networked approach to personalized phage therapy in Australia, based around

Fatma Abdelrahman (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) and colleagues from 7 countries (Egypt, India, Nigeria, Australia, China, Pakistan, Spain), many of them early career researchers, published a new review in Antibiotics on pha

Athina Zampara (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology on developing innolysins (endolysins fused to phage receptor binding proteins) against Campylobacter jejuni using a novel p

The first Africa Phage Forum recording is now on YouTube! Catch Prof. Paul Turner's talk on phage therapy, from environment to bedside if you missed it! Great job organizers Emmanuel Nnadi & Angela Makumi of APF; it was a pleasure to collab

Dear iVoM participants, If you've attended at least two iVoM events, you're invited to participate in a contest! The contest aims at having the audience feedback regarding the iVoM: Viruses of Microbes 2020 Webinar Series: Take a walk on th

The sixth iVoM event will be Thursday, February 18, 11AM GMT (note time change!), and the theme will be "Biotechnology applications in health care". It will feature talks by: Laurent Debarbieux: Phages (in)action in the gut Krystyna Dabrows

The Center for Microbiome Science at Ohio State University is hosting a Microbiome Informatics webinar series, running from March to May 2021. Register here! This series represents a first phase effort to digitize 7 years of a hands-on info

As promised, the 24th biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting will take place the first week of August 2021! Assuming it is safe to do so, the conference will be hosted in person on the Evergreen campus, in the dorms, as done in the

BiomX announced positive results of a Phase 1a phage pharmacokinetic study for inflammatory bowel disease/primary sclerosing cholangitis; they showed they could safely and successfully deliver phages to the gut. This was the first clinical

Aquaculture feed company Skretting and phage biotech company Proteon Pharmaceuticals are joining forces to trial phages to improve fish and shrimp health. Skretting will isolate strains of bacteria they'd like to target, and Proteon will de

Diana Pires (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a new Scientific Reports paper describing the design and assembly of synthetic Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages made by knocking out up to 48% of a phage's genes of unknown f

Christine Thompson, a US pharmacy student keen to learn more about bringing phage therapy into the field of pharmacy, published an interview for IDStewardship.com with Phage Directory's co-founder, Jessica Sacher. They discussed recent phag

Tom Ireland, a freelance science journalist, has published a great article in BBC Science Focus called The best way to kill a superbug? Weaponise a virus. Throughout this article, Tom introduces phages, their history, and the importance of

As promised, the 24th biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting will take place the first week of August 2021! Assuming it is safe to do so, the conference will be hosted in person on the Evergreen campus, in the dorms, as done in the

The sixth iVoM event will be Thursday, February 18, 11AM GMT (note time change!), and the theme will be "Biotechnology applications in health care". It will feature talks by: Laurent Debarbieux: Phages (in)action in the gut Krystyna Dabrows

Dear iVoM participants, If you've attended at least two iVoM events, you're invited to participate in a contest! The contest aims at having the audience feedback regarding the iVoM: Viruses of Microbes 2020 Webinar Series: Take a walk on th

PHAVES #12 will be a seminar with Dr. Betty Kutter of the Evergreen State College on Tues, Feb 9 at 8AM Pacific Time / 11AM Eastern Time. Title: Phages as a teaching tool, and stories from 60 years of phage. Small group networking to follow

PHAVES #12 will be a seminar with Dr. Betty Kutter of the Evergreen State College on Tues, Feb 9 at 8AM Pacific Time / 11AM Eastern Time. Title: Phages as a teaching tool, and stories from 60 years of phage. Small group networking to follow

Carmen (@PhageAnt on Twitter) would like to hear from you! Do you have any recommendations for any conferences/talks that are heavily involved in viral metagenomics? Reply to the Twitter post if you have any suggestions!

My name is Farhad Afrasiabi. Ph.D. student in the Department of Microbiology at Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, IRAN. I am interested in working on phage. I am currently working on a joint project to do my doctoral thesis on phage.