Phage Directory

The phage research community’s watering hole. By @jessicasacher & @yawnxyz | Newsletter: | Podcast:

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

5/ Find out all the answers on our newest Podovirus podcast episode with the legendary Chip Schooley @ipath & Graham Hatfull @ghatfull 👇

🎥 YouTube: https://t.co/8AGvRBLHIG
🎧 Spotify: https://t.co/CkIjCjV4xp
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/GsOggnRxiT

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

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?

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

Check out our conversation with Daria on the Podovirus podcast!

🎧 Spotify: https://t.co/4Kuezyja4O
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/pyozRNsIZH
📺 YouTube: https://t.co/95fizTOAZX

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[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

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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[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

Poster submissions are open!

More info: https://t.co/bDyZXJilJ4

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

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!

[Journal of Clinical Investigation @jclinicalinvest]

Count down: Our top 5 most-accessed manuscripts of 2025!

#2: #Bacteriophage Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Infections: Current Technologies and Therapeutic Approaches: https://t.co/rQKo7w9NcZ
@kevin_minyoung
@bollyky
@JessicaSacher

[Aleksandra PETROVIC FABIJAN @PetrovicFabijan]

🧪 Shape the Future of #PhageTherapy – PhD Position Available

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of #phagebiology and decoding the secrets of phage-bacteria evolution? 1/

[Phage Kenya @PhageKenya]

Our website has been up for a while now: https://t.co/GN12U68i3P. Feel free to engage with different researchers in Kenya, labs, featured articles, opportunities, etc. 🤓😎
Our LinkedIn page too: https://t.co/qrJytXA8ZR

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

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? 🤩

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

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:

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

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:

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

🚨 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.

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

Check out the program:

🔗 https://t.co/AviUvPqwcE

#PhageTherapy #AMR #ICBRAR2025

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

🚨 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.

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

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?

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

Incredibly exciting work — must read, phage field!! The Barr lab has unlocked gut prophages!

[Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr]

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
https://t.co/bopoov16pa

PhD graduate and now post-doc @SofiaDahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson, and lab members @SubDinesh

[Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr]

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
https://t.co/bopoov16pa

PhD graduate and now post-doc @SofiaDahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson, and lab members @SubDinesh

[Daniel Huelgas-Méndez 🇲🇽 @d_huelgas]

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

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

Wow congrats Cytophage!!! A product on the Canadian market!! Well done!!

🐣🇨🇦

[Cytophage Technologies Ltd. @cytophagetech]

$CYTO.V News: Cytophage Announces the Commercialization of OvaPhage in Canada Through W.L.T. Distributors Inc.
Learn more: https://t.co/mMVnyW9k63

#TSXV #CYTO #smallcaps #biotech #healthtech #foodsafety

[Cytophage Technologies Ltd. @cytophagetech]

$CYTO.V News: Cytophage Announces the Commercialization of OvaPhage in Canada Through W.L.T. Distributors Inc.
Learn more: https://t.co/mMVnyW9k63

#TSXV #CYTO #smallcaps #biotech #healthtech #foodsafety