Hi Phage Research Community This year’s HOP edition will take place in Braga, Portugal  from 19-23 June. Registrations are already open and limited to 24 participants. If you want to know more about HOP5, vist our webpage ceb.uminho.pt/bbig/HOP2023/H… Hope to see you soon in Braga.

Hands On Phage just started with an amazing talk from @EvelienAdri

Playing Monopoly with phages" genomes. A great talk by Rob Lavigne.

Great talk by Martin J Loessner showing all the amazing opportunities for phage engineering?

Here is the depolymerakawa team👌!

Meet the Endoloessner team. Oh do I see something😜?

Go go Transcripvigne team💪

Myopirnay team made a smart stop to bye "Tibias" enjoy😋

The winner is...

Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa opened Day 2 of HOP 23' with a really interesting lecture about evolutionary trade-off in phage resistance.

Take 2 for 1! 😎 Interesting talk by our duo Ana Oliveira and Silvio Santos on phage and phage-derived proteins in veterinary and food applications!

Fantastic lecture from Krystina Dabrowska about phage interaction with the human immune system with important advises for phage therapy.‼️

2nd round of talks started with Oscar Dias and Hugo Oliveira that brought a quite trending subject using AI to help phage-scientists 🦾👨‍🔬

What a nice way to finish our presentations with a wonderful talk from Priscila Pires and Luís Melo on targeting biofilms with phages 🦠🔬🧫

An inspiring debate about hot topics in phage research.

Is there a better way to finish a HOPs day with a tour across D. Diogo de Sousa museum⁉️learning a bit about Portugal history and our Roman ancestors, super! 🏰 Don't forget the dinner, also in the museum 🤤

First day of practical classes on Phage annotation and Phage isolation and characterization 👨‍🔬

Now it is time to play with the phages' genomes at the phage engineering workshop! 👨‍🔬👨‍💻

Last HOP day with two exciting practical classes: Phage display and Flow Cytometry to monitor phage-host interaction! 👨‍🔬🔬🦠

Last day of the HOP23'! Time to wrap up everything at the closing session with the poster awards and participation certificates. Congratulations to both poster award winners! 🏆👏👏👏 Hope you enjoyed and see you around!