🏥🤱Vander Elst et al engineer powerful bacteriophage-derived endolysins targeting mastitis-causing bacteria Strep uberis, agalactiae & dysgalactiae. They achieved a remarkable 4-log killing efficacy, destroying biofilms & infiltrating mammary cells. ➡️ ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

We wrote a grant in 2015, got funded in 2016 (JPIHDHL/Europe, DAHES/Denmark, INRAE/France, #CIHR/Canada), then a team of great scientists elevated this initiative to a new high. Extra funding led to this👇Huge congrats to the EarlyVir Team! #phage #COPSAC nature.com/articles/s4159…

Filamentous phage-bacterial host interactions prompted rapid evolution and epidemic spread of Pacific-Native Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Cheryl Whistler Vaughn Cooper (see: vscooper@bsky) #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Interested in how phages deal with dormant bacteria? After a looong and difficult peer review process Enea Enea Maffei presents the final version of our paper. 😁🔥👇🏼

Cytophage Provides Bacteriophages for Landmark Treatment of Joint Replacement Infection in Canada! thenewswire.com/press-releases…

What a huge step forward for the use of phages to treat prosthetic joint infections in Canada! Congratulations to all involved 🎉👏🏼

Thrilled to announce AlphaFold 3 which can predict the structures and interactions of nearly all of life’s molecules with state-of-the-art accuracy including proteins, DNA and RNA. Biology is a complex dynamical system so modeling interactions is crucial blog.google/technology/ai/…

I am delighted to share the newest work from the Sternberg Lab, in which we discover RNA-templated gene creation as a mechanism of antiviral immunity. This is a story for anyone who loves molecular biology, and one that repeatedly left us in disbelief. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

#Phages are important when traditional #antibiotics fail. A new project from the University of Copenhagen Research University of Copenhagen, UK Centre for Phage Research, and various research and clinical collaborators, seeks to fight flesh eating bacteria with phage. 🦠 globe.ku.dk/newslist/2023/…

I am very excited to be a part of the #STSforum2024 and honoured to have this opportunity. Thank you to the NRC Canada for investing in young leaders 🙏

I am thrilled to be part of the Young Leaders program at the STS Forum 2024 in Kyoto Japan. Thank you to NRC Canada for this amazing opportunity to interact with global leaders in science #stsforum2024

There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States. Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.

Setting the facts straight on Canadian goods

Canada is amazing!!!

5 years on from lockdown and history has been rewritten. I'm here to remind you what actually happened. For example ; Hospitals in London ran out of oxygen to give to patients, such was the flood of patients with respiratory failure resulting from Covid.

Very excited to invite all #phage #protein enthusiasts to The Phage Protein Meeting taking place on September 10-11, 2025 in #Ghent Belgium, an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to advancing the field of phage proteins for infection control. phageproteinmeeting.ugent.be

Did you know that when you slip on ice in Canada, the "standard of care" can mean dozens of repeat surgeries? Unless you're lucky enough to have the right doctor willing to push for another way. 1/ 🧵

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson, and lab members Dinesh Subedi

After a huge effort from huge number of people at BeckyMayerCentreforPhageResearch and validated by external collaborators (Warwick /Sheffield ). We have optimized a method for high-throughput phage genome sequencing, accessible to most labs. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections Infections acquired in health care settings kill three times more people than car accidents each year. cidrap.umn.edu/healthcare-ass… Photo: Bart Heird / Flickr cc