Capsid & Tail
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- Intralytix: then and nowThis week Madhav Madurantakam Royam, a PhD student at the University of Warwick, talks to Dr. Alexander Sulakvelidze, founder and CEO of Intralytix, one of the first modern phage companies to have products on the market.
- C&T Round Up for June 2022!This week, we highlight the feature articles we published in June! Learn about what happened when the Phage Australia team shipped a phage around the country, Jean-Paul Pirnay's views on phage therapy, and how producing phages has changed…
- Producing phages consistently: then and nowThis week, Kyle Jackson tackles phage manufacturing. He first enlightens us on how phages have historically been produced and preserved. Then, through a chat with Frenk Smrekar and Barbara Hubad, we learn how JAFRAL helps companies and…
- Phage therapy at the Queen Astrid Military Hospital: a conversation with Jean-Paul PirnayThis week, Madhav Madurantakam Royam, a PhD student at the University of Warwick, talks to Dr. Jean-Paul Pirnay about how the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium is advancing phage therapy.
- Phage down under: stability of a travelling phageThe Phage Australia network recently shipped a purified phage to collaborators across the country, and had everyone titre it and report back. Stephanie Lynch, who spearheaded this effort, tells us what was done and what the team learned.
- C&T Round Up for May 2022!This week, we highlight the feature articles we published in May! Learn about the latest Mycobacterium phage treatment, how we might make our spot tests less subjective, how to get involved in DeSci, and what a phage biologist thought of…
- Diving into a DAO as a scientist: what does help look like?You may have heard people (especially on Twitter) talking about DeSci, or decentralized science. Today Jessica Sacher shares her experience diving into LabDAO, a new DeSci initiative enabling science through a lab space/experiment sharing…
- 500 days of phage beats M. abscessus in the CF lungThis week, we highlight a new case report published last week in Cell. It documents the successful phage therapy of a Mycobacterium abscessus infection, which led a 26-year old in Colorado with cystic fibrosis to receive a lung transplant…
- Clinical microbiology meets phage at this year's ECCMIDFor the first time since 2019 the yearly European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) took place in-person. Jessica Neubauer, MSc student and Phage Directory volunteer, was there to report on all phings phage!
- Spot or Not: A simple system to rate your spot testsHow do you turn subjective observations into a quantified, somewhat-less-subjective observations? This week Jan Zheng continues his phage data series, delving into how (and why) the well-known 'Net Promotor Score' used by software companies…
- C&T Round Up for April 2022!This week, we highlight the features we published in April! Catch up on what happened at the last Phage Futures Europe, and learn how to organize your phage biobank data!
- How to organize your biobank dataNow that we’ve covered tracking phage metadata and building identities for our phages, it’s time to consider how our phages fit into our biobanks. This week in Capsid and Tail, Jan Zheng explains his thinking on how to organize phage…
- Phage therapy, translated: where is the field at?What's the state of phage commercialization? Longtime Phage Directory volunteers Sheetal Patpatia and Aël Hardy, who attended the last Phage Futures event, report on their key takeaways.
- C&T Round Up for March 2022!This week, we highlight the features we published in March! Learn about how to name your phage, how to track your phages, and how to get pheedback from phage peers!
- The latest on Instill: the peer-to-peer feedback platformWith feedback from users, the Instill platform is evolving. This week Katharine Muscat, phage PhD student and volunteer Instill coordinator, shares how members have benefited from and contributed to Instill, and what they've learned from…
- How to name a phageWhat's in a phage name, and how can we make it count? Should we give phages pet names or serial numbers? This week Jan Zheng continues his informal blog series on phage data, with a new post on how he's thinking about naming phages.
- How to keep track of phagesAs your phage collection grows, keeping track of your phages and associated data becomes increasingly important. This week, Jan Zheng explores how to rein in all that data before it gets out of control.
- The Phage Directory Slack CommunityUndergraduate phage enthusiast Sayde Perry’s 2022 guide to the former Phage Directory Slack community, its channels and conversations. The community is now retired.
- C&T Round Up for February!This week, we highlight the features we published in Feb — learn about digital phagograms, phageSuisse and the recently held Bacteriophage Therapy Summit!
- phageSuisse: toward phage therapy in SwitzerlandphageSuisse is a nonprofit founded to bring together health actors working or wishing to work with phages in Switzerland. This week, Vera Neumeier shares a recap of four recent phageSuisse webinars.
