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Jan Zheng, MHCI

Phage Directory (Co-founder); NVIDIA

I'm Jan, the other half of Phage Directory, and co-write Capsid & Tail.

Previously, I did data work at Phage Australia / Westmead Institute, where I built the biobank databases, data systems, and bioinformatics workflows for the clinical trial

I have a background in computer science and human-computer interaction, and I'm currently full-time at building the agentic layer for science at Nvidia.

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  1. Our Phage Picks for Aug 2025It’s Phage Picks time! This week, we highlight some new mind-expanding papers — one showing how phage killing might train the immune system like vaccines, one unpacking how temperate phages rewrite bacterial flagella with RNA-guided tools,…321Jessica Sacher, Jan Zheng
  2. C&T Round Up for July 2025!This month, we explored how Canada's first successful prosthetic joint infection phage therapy case is leading up to a full clinical trial; plus Jessica wrote a guide/manifesto(?) about why you should sequence (and re-sequence) your phages.320Jan Zheng
  3. C&T Round Up for June 2025!This month, Jess went viral with a post about How to Read Papers, we picked some great bread and butter papers, and Jess got to chat with Cytophage about navigating the Canadian regulatory phage maze.317Jan Zheng
  4. C&T Round Up for May 2025!For this month, we feature a guest post about pipolin use in PCR, two podcasts from Jess, and another lab hacks episode from Jan.313Jan Zheng
  5. Finding papers at scaleAmong the millions of papers published each year, how can you make sure you never touch another irrelevant paper?311Jan Zheng
  6. C&T Round Up for April 2025!Another round up! This month, we feature a new Lab Hacks format from Jess, one of our most controversial Capsid posts on AI use in science, and a Phage Picks of some of Jessica's nearest and dearest protocols (she uses these all the time —…308Jan Zheng, Jessica Sacher
  7. Our Phage Picks for April 2025It's Phage Picks time! This week's theme is bread and butter — two picks from Jess about methods papers that should be staples of any phage lab: her favourite phage-making paper, and an (aspirational) phage quantification paper she really…307Jessica Sacher, Jan Zheng
  8. C&T Round Up for March 2025!Roundup time! This month, we heard from Aaryan's experience as an undergrad researcher at Paul Bollyky's lab. We picked papers across topics like T4-AAV viral vectors, cell-free synthesis of phages, and taxMyPhage, a new tool for…304Jan Zheng, Jessica Sacher
  9. Our Phage Picks for March 2025What else can phages do, besides kill bacteria? Are bacteria even needed to make them anymore? In this month's Phage Picks issue, we cover phage+AAV hybrids to deliver genes to eukaryotic cells, cell-free phage synthesis, and a bonus…302Jessica Sacher, Jan Zheng
  10. C&T Round Up for February 2025!Issue #300! This month we announced the return of Evergreen, covered Intralytix's 25-year-long overnight success, and Silvia's journey to build up a new phage lab.300Jan Zheng
  11. The Year of the Phage MachineHappy 2025 everyone! It's still January so we can still say happy new year! We are finally back after a nice long extended Christmas break + insanity January. Tons of phage news has accumulated — here you go!296Jan Zheng, Jessica Sacher
  12. Year in Review 2024This year we moved from Sydney to San Francisco — what a year. Here's some reflections, things that went well, things that didn't, and some things we learned. Happy holidays to everyone!295Jan Zheng, Jessica Sacher
  13. C&T Round Up for November 2024!Roundup time! This month we explored phage therapy at Mayo Clinic with Dr. Gina Suh, Yamini Patel shared her experience at the VoM 2024 Conference in Australia, and Esme Brinsden discussed a new citizen science initiative in South England.…292Jan Zheng
  14. C&T Round Up for October 2024!Roundup time! This month we explored phage-based gene editing in the microbiome, high schooler Kate Kelly shared her jam-packed 30 days in Stanford’s Bollyky lab, and Ritah Nakayinga from Kyambogo University discussed her phage cocktail to…288Jan Zheng
  15. Our Phage Picks for October 2024!It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the seventh rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to.286Jan Zheng
  16. C&T Round Up for September 2024!This month we heard about how Sartorius' columns can bring down endotoxins close to zero. There's also a new phage data resource called Phage Base! Lastly, we also picked a couple of super interesting papers this month — one about how…283Jan Zheng
  17. Our Phage Picks for September 2024!It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the sixth rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to.281Jan Zheng
  18. Can AI extract data from a messy spreadsheet?What if we could instantly extract information we need from a spreadsheet (like raw plate reader data) in just a click? Can AI help? This week, Jan writes about a project he worked on for Sphinx Bio, where he tried to extract data from…276Jan Zheng
  19. C&T Round Up for July 2024!This month, we recap what we learned about phage genome analysis tools, phage production pipelines, n of 1 clinical trials, and more!275Jan Zheng
  20. Our Phage Picks for July 2024!It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the fifth rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to.273Jan Zheng, Jessica Sacher

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