The phage research community’s watering hole. By @jessicasacher & @yawnxyz | Newsletter: phage.directory/capsid | Podcast: shorturl.at/PDNIy
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NIAID (@NIH) just put $6M into a coordinated US phage therapy research network — 3 new CAPT-CEP centers freshly launched!
Excited our Stanford Center for Phage Pharmaceuticals (@StanfordMed) is one, & to work w/ @GladstoneInst & @PittTweet as they build the other 2!
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5/ Find out all the answers on our newest Podovirus podcast episode with the legendary Chip Schooley @ipath & Graham Hatfull @ghatfull 👇
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/lm3LdG8iEDY
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2kK…
🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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1/ Chip Schooley @IPATH was there when HIV went from “some people benefit” to functionally cured.
His take: phage therapy is at about 1988 on that timeline.
How do we get it into the 90s?
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Check out our conversation with Daria on the Podovirus podcast!
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6KX…
🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
📺 YouTube: youtu.be/nbN4whcoJrU
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In 2018, @dariavantyne started her phage therapy lab @PittTweet.
She had 0 phages, just knew their biology & wanted to help patients.
Today her lab makes phage for dozens of patients/year under compassionate use, while still publishing research.
We asked Daria — HOW?
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If you’re working in phage therapy, @Jafral1 Phage Summit 2026 is worth a look!
19–21 May 2026 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
Hear from @DocSaimaAslam (UC San Diego), @PaulPirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospital) & others across clinical, regulatory, and policy.
Poster submissions open!
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Poster submissions are open!
More info: jafral.com/phage-summit-2026
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30 Dec 2025
Count down: Our top 5 most-accessed manuscripts of 2025!
#2: #Bacteriophage Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Infections: Current Technologies and Therapeutic Approaches: doi.org/10.1172/JCI187996
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18 Dec 2025
🧪 Shape the Future of #PhageTherapy – PhD Position Available
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17 Dec 2025
Our website has been up for a while now: phagekenya.netlify.app/. Feel free to engage with different researchers in Kenya, labs, featured articles, opportunities, etc. 🤓😎
Our LinkedIn page too: linkedin.com/in/phage-kenya-…
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14 Nov 2025
Phages can save the AI people from being purely in silico….
Phage ppl can get benefit of all the AI powers being directed at solving PHAGES
win win win? 🤩
13 Nov 2025
Closing the AI-to-lab loop is hard, especially if you want to test your WHOLE GENOME generator..
Viruses are the only genomes cheap enough to print en mass, but raise biosafety flags
So @ArcInstitute chose phages!
We went deep w/ @samuelhking & @driscoll_cl on how they did it:
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13 Nov 2025
Closing the AI-to-lab loop is hard, especially if you want to test your WHOLE GENOME generator..
Viruses are the only genomes cheap enough to print en mass, but raise biosafety flags
So @ArcInstitute chose phages!
We went deep w/ @samuelhking & @driscoll_cl on how they did it:
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7 Nov 2025
🚨 Phage scientists! ICBRAR-2025 is coming next week to Varanasi, India 🇮🇳
Nov 12–13 — Hosted by @PhageIndia & @bhupro (in particular our longtime phage phriends @urmibajpai and @GOPALNATH12)
✨ Focus: Phage therapy, AMR, AI, diagnostics, regulation & clinical translation.
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7 Nov 2025
🚨 Phage scientists! ICBRAR-2025 is coming next week to Varanasi, India 🇮🇳
Nov 12–13 — Hosted by @PhageIndia & @bhupro (in particular our longtime phage phriends @urmibajpai and @GOPALNATH12)
✨ Focus: Phage therapy, AMR, AI, diagnostics, regulation & clinical translation.
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29 Oct 2025
What are people's favourite plate readers for bacterial growth kinetics assays?
(We want it for high throughput phage killing assays, looking at area under the curve for bacteria grown over 18-20 h)
Tecan Spark? Spectrostar Omega? Logphase 600?
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17 Oct 2025
Incredibly exciting work — must read, phage field!! The Barr lab has unlocked gut prophages!
15 Oct 2025
Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
PhD graduate and now post-doc @SofiaDahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson, and lab members @SubDinesh
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15 Oct 2025
Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
PhD graduate and now post-doc @SofiaDahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson, and lab members @SubDinesh
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16 Oct 2025
A great honor to be part of this tremendous work! 🥳Congratulations to all the hardworking co-authors! This was a beautifukl topic to research and a great experience for me at Professor Tom Wood lab in Penn State ! 😁 @crypticprophage @Larvberg @MariadelMarTom
16 Oct 2025
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We discovered a new, wide-spread phage defense system based on serine recombinase PinQ in E. coli cryptic prophage Qin that inverts 1,797 bp in another cryptic prophage, e14, to encode two chimeric proteins that block adsorption of T2 phage. @NAR_Open
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17 Oct 2025
Wow congrats Cytophage!!! A product on the Canadian market!! Well done!!
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16 Oct 2025
$CYTO.V News: Cytophage Announces the Commercialization of OvaPhage in Canada Through W.L.T. Distributors Inc.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/CYTO-PR-OCT16
#TSXV #CYTO #smallcaps #biotech #healthtech #foodsafety
ALT Cytophage Announces the Commercialization of OvaPhage in Canada Through W.L.T. Distributors Inc.
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