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This week, Jan takes another detour into data-land, playing around with spreadsheets and tabular data, exploring VLOOKUP, pivot tables, and other formulas. In our previous data issue, we defined some types of data, and explored ways to thin

From the Phagebiotics Research Foundation: Greetings Phage friends! The 25th biennial International Evergreen Phage Meeting is set to kick off in person, in full Evergreen fashion, with Dr. Betty Kutter at the Evergreen State College. Mar

Our @PhageFiles podcast is finally here! Tune in on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Deezer and Amazon Music to listen to our first episodes. In our podcast we will discuss all things phage. You will hear from researchers and entrepreneurs interes

Armata Pharmaceuticals announces positive topline data from the completed Phase 1b2a SWARM-P.a. trial evaluating AP-PA02, a novel, inhaled multi-phage therapeutic for the treatment of chronic pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in c

Boston-based global health startup PhagePro has obtained an exclusive license to develop and market their phage cocktail product to prevent community spread of cholera.

A new Transplant Infectious Diseases study by Ghady Haidar (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) and colleagues reports the use of nebulized phage therapy to treat Burkholderia multivorans in a CF patient. Unfortunately this was a c

Amit Rimon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications on topical phage therapy in a mouse model of Cutibacterium acnes-induced lesions. They found that phage therapy may be a promising str

Cyanophages play an important role in controlling the abundance of their hosts, which are globally significant populations of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. In a new paper published in Viruses, Emily Dart (Clark University) and colleaug

The research programme in molecular bacteriology at Imperial College London, led by Prof. José R Penadés, is looking for a Research Associate to analyse the impact of phages in the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

The FDA is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to help assess the potential of bacteriophage therapies against Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus species.

Join the Webinar organized by Africa Phage Forum on ''grant writing and effective communication'' today from 4 PM West Central Africa Time (GMT+1). Our speaker is Dr. Tobi Nagel, founder and President of Phages for Global Health. Register h

A bioRxiv preprint reports that highly purified phage T4 was rapidly internalized in vitro by A549 lung epithelial cells, MDCK-I kidney cells and mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages without activating TLR9 or cGAS-STING inflammatory pathw

This week we introduce a new guest writer, Thomas Hunt, who will write about his experiences in lab automation. In a lot of ways, the mentality of coding and lab work are polar opposites. Work in the lab is meticulous and demands a strong a

The University of Copenhagen is hiring a Senior Researcher in Computational Biodiscovery to work on phage informatics.

The Bordenstein lab is hiring for several positions (postdoc, staff scientist, technician, research professor) to work on animal-microbe endosymbiosis in Drosophila flies and Nasonia wasps. One project involves genomics and lytic functions

The Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Australia is looking to appoint two Research Assistants to help investigate the role of the epithelium in the development of airway disease (as part of Telethon Kids' Therapeutic Phage and novel Drug De

The Centre for Microbiome Research (CMR) at Queensland University of Technology is looking to hire a Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Synthetic Biology to characterise viruses (primarily phage) from human gut microbiomes, and to to help devel

The Africa Phage Forum will be hosting a webinar on this Wednesday, 15th March 2023 at 6:00 PM East Africa Time (EAT). The webinar, titled ‘Scientific Writing & Effective Grant Writing’, will be given by Dr. Tobi Nagel, the Founder and Pres

The Good Virus is a new book by Tom Ireland that tells the story of phage research, from its beginnings to the present day. Now available for preorder in the UK and the US!

From Phage Twitter, via @hayleyn0rdstr0m: Adaptive Phage Therapeutics laid off 30% of the company this morning, including me… So, looking for phage research jobs in the DC metro area again! Drop me a DM if you have leads or want to chat.