Happy to announce the release of the 2nd edition of our book, 'Bacteriophage Therapy: From Lab to Clinical Practice,' edited by Joana Azeredo and Sanna Sillankora. Our sincere gratitude goes out to all the authors for their invaluable contributions to this comprehensive edition.

The 20th edition of the Phylogenomics and Population Genomics course (UB, Barcelona), will take place from July 1 to 12, 2024. Pre-enrolment deadline March 15th, 2024. More info in: ub.edu/certfem/ppgcou…

For anyone learning or teaching bioinformatics, or if you’re interested in getting started, you may like to check out some of many (>230!) integrated tutorials for the Galaxy bioinformatics platform at training.galaxyproject.org/training-mater… . The Galaxy platform is a free, easy-to-join,

Phage friends take note! The 6th Bacteriophage Therapy Summit is Feb 27-29 in Boston. BiomX (NYSE:PHGE), Locus Biosciences, TechnoPhage S.A. & SNIPR BIOME will share clinical trial learnings, Merck will talk phage GMP, & more. Use PDMP10 for 10% off. Earlybird ends Feb 9. buff.ly/48UDtvM

Squigualiser: Interactive visualisation of raw nanopore signal data biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really glad to see this out - we now know a lot about the diversity and distribution of enterococci on Earth. Good work Julia, Francois, Ashlee and the rest of the team! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Fantastic Special Issue of PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research - thanks to @kirchhelle and Charlotte Brives for driving your ideas to this highly enjoyable and informative set of articles!

A growing health threat to crew on space missions: antibiotic resistance. An experiment studying antibiotic resistant microbes is headed to the International Space Station on SpaceX 30. Studying how microbes evolve could lead to advancements that protect humans. go.nasa.gov/3TNAiko

Consider applying to ICARe, the #1 Interdisciplinary Course on Antibiotics and Resistance icarecourse.org in Annecy (France) October 19-27, 2024. Please RT.

Last Friday's potluck dinner was a blast! ✨ Huge thanks to all who joined us for the wonderful time!

🧬 Excited to share our latest preprint: we introduce MANIAC, a new tool to rapidly estimate genetic relationship between viral genomes! 🧪🔬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Why sometimes you need a PI

Are you interested in uncovering new ways lactic acid bacteria overcome metal intoxication and, at the same time, be part of a multi-disciplinary team using AI-based and conventional medicinal chemistry to develop a species-specific anti-caries therapy?

Registration for the 2024 (Oct 19-27) ICARe course icarecourse.org is open until July 28. Be 1 of 40 selected participants and join Patrice Courvalin, Michael Gilmore, Heinz Moser and 30+ experts on #AMR and #drugdiscovery for a full week in #Annecy icarecourse.org

Introducing Genome Explorer! 🧬A browser that provides nearly instantaneous scaling and traversing of a genome, enabling users to quickly and easily zoom into an area of interest. Learn more about the tool and its capabilities in EIC Jack Gilbert: asm.social/1X4

The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Preventing and Controlling Global Antimicrobial Resistance — Implementing a Whole-System Approach | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 Great alternatives to BioRender are now available!! 📢 NIAID News offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone to use. Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Thank you all for your responses. To summarize, these are free/open source alternatives for preparation of scientific illustrations: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org

Nature News piece on the hidden players of the gut microbiome (hint, they're phages, of course) “Our virome is hugely abundant and incredibly diverse, and we’ve looked at just a tiny percentage,” nature.com/articles/d4158…