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Kristen LeGault (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern virus-pathogen conflicts in Vibrio cholerae recovered from clinical samples. T

Gerald Misol, Jr. (Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Greece) and colleagues characterized a novel jumbo phage with broad host range against Vibrio harveyi, a major aquaculture pathogen. They did a trial in shrimp, which showed that this

Anna Dragos (Technical University of Denmark) wrote a blog post for Nature Microbiology entitled 'Breaking bad of prophages during lab evolution - from strange observation to revelation'. She talks about how her group noted an intriguing pa

Check out the agenda for the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit - led by 25+ expert speakers from industry, academia and governmental bodies, this meeting will equip you with all the tools you need in order to accelerate the discovery and tra

The Africa Phage Forum formed by a group of passionate African phage researchers provides a collaborative network for the promotion and sensitization of phage research in Africa. The forum is on a quest to seek solutions to common challenge

The Center for Phage Technology (Texas A&M) has released its upgraded and improved Galaxy-Apollo phage annotation platform. This is a free, web-based, gold-standard system for phage annotation, and their website includes training materials

Great in-depth narrative article in The New Yorker magazine by Nicola Twilley, which details accounts of phage therapy patients treated recently in the US, as well as the behind-the-scenes work by scientists and doctors that goes into isola

Animals in the wild have learned to live with 'their' viruses, but humans are still learning. Harald Brussow (KU Leuven) has described in a new 'crystal ball' article how phages have dominated all natural habitats, and has provided a unique

To use phages as therapeutic agents, ensuring phages reach the site of infection is key. Belinda Loh (Zhejiang University, China) and colleagues published a review article unfolding numerous approaches for phage delivery, including methods

Bryan Lenneman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a review on phage engineering approaches to redirect specificity and reduce resistance development. They also describe the application of designer phages as gen

The International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms has announced their newly elected executive board members for 2021-2022! Congratulations to Rob Lavigne (President), Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa (President-elect), Andrew Millard (Vice-Presid

Contrary to what we announced last week, we've had to postpone PHAVES 11 with Dr. Iredell until 2021. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up! We'll see you back in the new year for season 2 — thanks for an awesome first 10 episodes in 2020! Reg

The 23rd Congress of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) will be held in Boise, Idaho from 22nd to 26th May 2021. The scientific agenda is focusing on the current understanding of pulmonary disease, viral transmission

Eleanor Townsend and Eleanor Jameson (University of Warwick) are editing a special issue titled “Phage-Host Interaction in the Gut Microbiome and Their Impacts on Human Health and Disease” in MDPI’s International Journal of Environmental Re

BiomX analyzed a set of colorectal cancer tumour samples from patients, and found that 80% contained Fusobacterium nucleatum, which BiomX has been engineering phages to target. BiomX's phages are designed to deliver payloads that make tumou

UC San Diego has detailed the journey to recovery of another patient who has benefitted from the use of phage therapy. The case involved Maria Madrigal, a polycystic kidney disease (and kidney transplant) patient who suffered from recurrent

Katarzyna Danis-Wlodarczyk (Ohio State University) and colleagues published a new preprint on the antagonistic effect of colistin and ciprofloxacin on bactericidal, bacteriolytic, and virion-production activities of P. aeruginosa podovirus

Diana Pires (University of Minho) and colleagues published a review article describing the present-day challenges and opportunities in phage therapy, by analyzing the outcomes of trials and case reports done to date. Along with the current

Tolulope Oduselu (Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team, University of Ibadan) and colleagues recently published their second review article entitled "Expanding the Frontiers of Bacterial Diagnosis through Bacteriophage Biotechnology". They re

The fourth iVoM event will be Thursday, December 17, 7pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms". Talks: - New discoveries on the immune system of bacteria — Rotem Sorek - The regulation and activity of Cl