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Issue 170

C&T Round Up for March 2022!

Jessica Sacher

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!

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Updates

Paper: Phage-inducible chromosomal islands promote genetic variability by blocking phage reproduction and protecting transductants from phage lysis. See also what author Rodrigo Ibarra Chavez has to say about it on twitter: "phage satellites that aren’t that selfish, providing additional benefits to their host cells”!

PICIsPhage-host interactionsResearch paper

Paper: Learn to decipher active prophages from metagenomes using PropagAtE (Prophage Activity Estimator), an automated software tool for estimating if a prophage is in the lytic or lysogenic stage of infection

MetagenomicsProphageResearch paper

Preprint: Bacteriophages Playing Nice: Lysogenic bacteriophage replication is stable in the human gut microbiota

Gut phageLysogenyPreprint

Preprint: Bacteriophages antagonize cGAS-like immunity in bacteria

Phage defense systemsPreprint

Paper: New insights into the structure and assembly of phage P1

Jobs

April 1, 2022

Research Specialist at University of Pittsburgh in the Hatfull Lab to perform advanced experiments in a microbiology laboratory aimed at understanding phages and their infection of Mycobacterium hosts.

Mycobacterium phagesResearch specialist

April 1, 2022

Research Assistant to work on a phage therapy project with Assistant Professor John Chen at the National University of Singapore (preferred: students who want to pursue PhD in microbiology). Research in the Chen lab focuses on S. aureus, phages, and pathogenicity islands.

Phage TherapyResearch Assistant

Community board

April 1, 2022

iVoM Season 2, episode #6: Models for Viral Action. Date: 6 pm CET, April 12th, 2022. Register at https://ivom.phage.directory

Talks

  • Modeling the Ecological and Therapeutic Impacts of Bacteriophage - an Imperfect Predator, by Prof. Joshua Weitz, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Why are there so many short prophages? The genetic repertoire of active and cryptic prophage sequences, by Prof. Lindi Wahl, Western University, Canada
  • Lord of the Broken Rings: how ATPase ring motors drive genome packaging in dsDNA viruses, by Dr. Marc Morais, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health), USA

Chairs

  • Dr. Matthias Fischer , Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Prof. Corina Brussaard , Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands
Virtual EventViruses of microbesiVoM

April 1, 2022

The 2022 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting at University of Wisconsin, Madison is Aug 1-5, 2022 (in person!). Register now!

ConferenceIn personMolecular genetics

April 1, 2022

You're invited to Africa Phage Forum #7, which will be a talk called 'Phage Display - an old resource for new applications' by Dr. Ivone Martins. The event is currently set to take place the 12th April 2021 at 2pm GMT+3, and will last approximately 1 hour. https://apf.phage.directory/schedule/apf-webinar-7

Africa Phage ForumVirtual Event

April 1, 2022

There is now a dedicated phage sub-community on Twitter: “Phage Twitter”! Created by Sabrina Green (@Motherofphage on Twitter). Try it out here.

Phage Twitter

In this month's Capsid & Tail Monthly Round Up issue, we're highlighting the three feature articles we published in March. Be sure to check them out if you missed them, and let us know if you have thoughts, comments or questions! Reach us anytime by email!