Exciting start to the hands-on workshop on isolation and characterization of bacteriophages, exploring the unseen world of nature’s bacterial predators. www.linkedin.com/posts/bacter...

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Exciting News for Phage Enthusiasts & Leaders! Preceding the Sixth International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antibiotic Resistance #ICBRAR2025 in India (Nov 12-13, 2025), a three-day Ph...

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#Newpaperalert Isolation and Characterization of Stress-Tolerant Bacteriophages for Effective Biocontrol of Foodborne Pathogen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Isolation and Characterization of Stress-Tolerant Bacteriophages for Effective Biocontrol of Foodborne Pathogen - Food and Bioprocess Technology

Foodborne microbial contamination remains a significant challenge for the food industry, impacting public health and causing economic losses. Bacteriophages have emerged as promising biocontrol agents...

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Introducing the Newly Elected Office Bearers of the Indian Phage Society – Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy for January 2025–2028. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Introducing the Newly Elected Office Bearers of the Indian Phage Society… | Bacteriophage Society (SBRT), India

Introducing the Newly Elected Office Bearers of the Indian Phage Society – SBRT (January 2025–2028). The vision of the team is to strengthen collaboration across academia, clinical practice, industr...

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✨ We’re doing a #GIVEAWAY to celebrate #WorldBookDay & #InternationalWomensDay 📚👩‍🔬 Win a wonderful #microbiology colouring book by 2 fabulous women @noemiematthey.bsky.social & @drsarahwettstadt.bsky.social 🦠🎨 To enter: - Follow us - Like - Repost this Winner chosen at random 10/03/25 #MicroSky

⚡️For this months issue of the Phage Collection Project Blog we are really grateful to have had @atifmicro.bsky.social discuss how we could use phages to tackle biofouling in power plants. Make sure to check it out using the link below! #PhageCollectionBlog www.phage-collection.org/blog/1pd6hdm...

Harnessing Nature’s Own Virus: Bacteriophages as a Sustainable Solution for Biofouling — ThePhageCollectionProject

Our understanding of viruses was expanded as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, we frequently consider viruses to be exclusively harmful organisms. Phages, also known as bacteriophage...

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50 years after its discovery, the role of the T7 kinase is finally revealed - shielding the phage against a wide variety of bacterial immune systems. Very interesting work from the Savitski & Typas labs

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Pervasive phosphorylation by phage T7 kinase disarms bacterial defenses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629319v1

Finally out! Phage therapy for diabetic foot ulcers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Randomized double-blind study on safety and tolerability of TP-102 phage cocktail in patients with infected and non-infected diabetic foot ulcers

Phage therapy offers a promising alternative for treating serious infections, including diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), through the lytic action of phage…

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If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey. Link: umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

Combating Chlorine-Resistant Marine Klebsiella pneumoniae Biofilms with Chlorine-Tolerant Bacteriophages. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143782 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39571947/

Combating Chlorine-Resistant Marine Klebsiella pneumoniae Biofilms with Chlorine-Tolerant Bacteriophages - PubMed

Biofilm formation presents a significant challenge in health care, food industries, water distribution systems, etc. In addition to their inherent resistance to various stresses and biocides, emerging resistance against widely used biocides like chlorine is a growing concern. The strong link between …

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.Our new article in Chemosphere. This study provides insights into the prevalence of chlorine resistant, pathogenic #bacteria in cooling water systems & highlights the application of #phages to mitigate chlorine resistant bacteria & their #biofilms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Grabbed this #NBIC tweet to share on 🦋 about national biofilms week involving @lonelyjoeparker.bsky.social from @unisouthampton.bsky.social #BioFilmWeek #Academicsky 🧫

Fully funded Ph.D. position available in structural biology of bacteriophages. Mechanism of phage infection in the C. difficile pathogen- towards effective phage therapy For more details, visit:- www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Mechanism of phage infection in the C. difficile pathogen- towards effective phage therapy at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Mechanism of phage infection in the C. difficile pathogen- towards effective phage therapy at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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I learned about this page today www.phagerounds.com which is a place to connect to live lectures on phage therapies. Highly recommended for the curious.

Made my first starter pack! If I missed you, my apologies. I can add you. go.bsky.app/URt3Fbp

#Paperalert We found a complex interplay between competition, iron uptake, and aromatic compound utilization that underpins the #rhizospheric success of P. putida. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Competition-driven phenotypic plasticity in Iron acquisition and aromatic utilization confers a fitness advantage to Pseudomonas putida in an Iron-limited rhizospheric environment - World Journal of M...

Iron scarcity poses a critical challenge for rhizospheric bacteria like Pseudomonas putida in the competitive rhizosphere. Despite its dependence on iron for essential functions such as root colonizat...

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A complete list of 150 bacteriophage researchers. go.bsky.app/Lkm6xoN

November 18-24 is World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW). This year's theme is "Educate, Advocate, Act Now". Use Antibiotics Wisely !! @arom-ntu.bsky.social @ncas.bsky.social @target-amr.bsky.social #Medsky

This #WAAW, we're highlighting some of our #AMS resources developed over the years. First up, our 'What Are Antimicrobials?' posters have been translated into 18 languages. www.ncas-australia.org/ClinicalFact... #AMSSky #IDSky

We're hiring a Group Leader in Infection Biology! 🧬 Apply now to join us at the IRIM in Montpellier, and lead cutting-edge research in pathogen virulence, host-pathogen interactions or drug resistance, and shape the future of infection biology! 🦠🧫 Please RT (and follow us!) 🗓️ Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025

I will be conducting a workshop on "Phage Ecology and Evolution in Microbiomes" at IIT Madras from 11-14 December. lf you are interested in phage applications, therapy, or biotechnology, this may be of interest. Please spread the word. elearn.nptel.ac.in/shop/iit-wor...

I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) working on long read pangenome / assembly algorithms in bacteria. Would suit someone with maths/compsci/coding background. Aptitude + interest more important than experience. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New graph algorithms for analysis of the genomes and pangenomes of bacteria and their mobile elements. at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - New graph algorithms for analysis of the genomes and pangenomes of bacteria and their mobile elements. at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

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I made a quick Starter Pack for scientists working on virus discovery - please reply if you’d like me to add you to the pack (or remove you) or to recommend anyone! #scisky go.bsky.app/HK1wxRb

PhD and postdoc opportunities in the Nichols lab at the University of Denver.

Happy Monday! The UCSF Department of Cell & Tissue Biology is searching for a new 'quantitative' cell biology faculty member. We'll be reviewing applications after Nov 15 and are looking forward to reading yours!

Bluesky highlighted in this week's Capsid & Tail of @phagedirectory.bsky.social phage.directory/capsid/vom-c...

A week in Australia for Viruses of Microbes 2024: Yamini’s Experience

This week, NYIT undergrad student Yamini Patel shares insights from Viruses of Microbes 2024 in Australia. She highlights what she learned, from phage therapy with Rob Lavigne, to Colin Hill's insight...

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Last year, I had an interview with Biospectrum Magazine about the bacteriophage infrastructure in India. More details in the link: www.biospectrumindia.com/views/17/241...

“In five years, India will have a well-established bacteriophage infrastructure”

“In five years, India will have a well-established bacteriophage infrastructure”

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If love the smell of autoclaved LB in the morning, this is your starter pack! Reply here for an add. go.bsky.app/Mz7MTFE

Our fantastic Biological Sciences department at Mississippi State is hiring multiple TT Assistant Professors in any area of cellular, molecular, or developmental biology research! Apply by Dec 1 #CellBio #MolBio #DevBio #MicroSky explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...

Latest data from AllTheBacteria described in our updated preprint. All illumina WGS bacterial+archaeal sequence data to Aug 2024 consistently assembled, QC, and now AMR profiling. That's 2.4 million genomes. Gene annotations almost done , coming next. Please use! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AllTheBacteria - all bacterial genomes assembled, available and searchable

The bacterial sequence data publicly available at the global DNA archives is a vast source of information on the evolution of bacteria and their mobile elements. However, most of it is either unassemb...

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