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My name is Tom Ireland and I'm a science writer based in the UK working on a popular-science book about phages. Under contract with a major publisher, the book aims to bring the wonder of phages to a mass audience, telling the fascinating h

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

The recording for iVoM #2 (Virus Structure and Function with Petr Leiman, Kristin Parent and Pascale Boulanger) has been posted on the VoM 2020 Youtube channel!

Two upcoming phage webinars organized by the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science: 1) From Petri Dish to Patient: Mycobacteriophages and Their Therapeutic Potential (December 8): Register here. 2) Phage and Antibiotics: Induction of

This week included Giving Tuesday, and some of you likely donated to Phages for Global Health (PGH). A message from the PGH team: "Thank you so much for your gifts yesterday — between your contributions and matching funds we raised over $18

Diane Shader Smith and Mark Smith have established Mallory's Legacy Fund. Their daughter Mallory was one of the first cystic fibrosis patients to receive phage therapy (and she inspired Phage Directory's start!). Donations will support phag

Dr. David Pride (IPATH, UCSD) wrote a great Scientific American article on the complexity of viruses and the human body. He talks about the tricky tasks of mapping where they are and how they spread, and managing the bad ones while exploiti

PhagoMed's synthetic phage lysin platform for treatment of bacterial vaginosis came in second place (and won 20,000 Euro) in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's 2020 Health Catapult contest.

Karthik Chamakura (Center for Phage Technology and Texas A&M) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications on host lysis genes discovered in leviviruses, which are single-stranded RNA phages. They characterized the function

Shannon Miller (Broad Institute) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Protocols on phage-assisted continuous and non-continuous evolution. This method allows directed evolution to occur much faster (100 rounds of evolution in 2 we

Ameneh Khatami (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new preprint showing therapeutic monitoring of the host-bacterium-phage interaction in a child. They describe how they treated a 7-year-old with a chronic osteoarticular Pseud

Lorraine Draper (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Biology showing the impact of faecal viral transfer (FVT) on the mouse microbiome after antibiotic perturbation. They saw that FVT helped the mice get back

Roberto Molina-Quiroz (Centro de Estudios Científicos, Chile) and colleagues published a new paper in mSphere showing that prophage-dependent neighbor predation in Vibrio cholerae leads to enhanced horizontal gene transfer by natural transf

The WHO's 4th Clinical Antibacterial Pipeline Advisory Group Meeting took place this week. Haileyesus Getahun, MD (Joint Secretariat on AMR at WHO) stated via Twitter that for the first time, available data on phage therapy was set to be ev

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) is working toward a phage-based COVID vaccine — a phage engineered to express epitopes of SARS-CoV2 on the surface of the capsid. Phage-based vaccines are attractive because they are considered safe in the

(POSTPONED TO 2021) Save the date for the next rendition of PHAVES, a seminar with Dr. Jonathan Iredell, MD of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research and University of Sydney on Wed, Dec 16 at 8AM AEDT (Tues, Dec 15 at 4PM Eastern Time

Thanks so much to the labs who reached out in response to our request for Serratia phages last week. In just a few days, the strain was shipped out to the first set of labs for testing. A few days after that, an active phage was found (by R

Join Jean-Paul Pirnay, PhD, Gina Suh, MD, and Nicholas Chia, PhD Nov 30, 2020 12:00 PM Central time for an engaging virtual discussion on phage therapy as a tool in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections. The talk is entitled "Ba

Good day! I am a 3rd year Medical Technology student from the Philippines and we are currently looking for MS2 Escherichia coli bacteriophage for our thesis project. I hope you can help me to look for the above said bacteriophage sample. Th

The African Phage Forum is a new collaborative network of African phage researchers to promote and sensitize phage research in Africa, created by Dr. Emmanuel Nnadi, Dr. Rita Nakayinga, and Dr. Juliah Khayeli. They aim to motivate and mento