Community post

Attention phage researchers! You have until Monday June 24th to make your opinions (on phage banks) count!

Tobi Nagel (Phages for Global Health) and Francesca Hodges (Innovate UK Business Connect) are working to capture the global phage community's recommendations for curating and managing phage banks around the world.

Phage researchers are invited to agree/disagree with the compiled preliminary list of Recommendations for Phage Banks.

This has been a MONUMENTAL effort by Tobi and Fran (and many phage community members!) over the past TWO years. They've hosted 'town hall' events at Viruses of Microbes Tbilisi, Evergreen International Phage Conference, and online via extensive working groups and surveys.

Please take a few minutes (before Monday!) and add your views, so we can move forward as a community toward well-characterized phage collections that we can all use, share, and build from.

P.S. The current status of the project will be presented at the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference!