🎙️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Penn State is recruiting multiple assistant professors in the broad area of microbiology, including bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, & virology. Come join the microbiome jubilee! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Acad…

So thrilled to find this STELLAR review of my upcoming book, The Living Medicine St. Martin's Press. Hope others in #phage & #bookreviews community like it too! Barnes & Noble Goodreads WORD Bookstores Bookshop.org US Strand Book Store The Corner Bookstore Booksellers Association Thank u Dr. Anne Estes @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social !

Evergreen 2025 is happening, and for the first time in its 50-year history, we're taking it on the road!🎉🎉 Save the date for the 26th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting, which will be held August 3-8, 2025, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville!

Happy to share the final version of our work at PLOS Biology👇 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… Thank you to all the reviewers, and a big shoutout to first author Simran Kushwaha 👏

.International #Conference on Recent developments in #Biofilm and #Biofouling Control. Abstract Submission starting from August 12.

Web version now available via phagecompass (phagecompass.ku.dk) or direct link ptax.ku.dk Thanks to Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén the web-site is running a significantly faster version (will update git version soon)

Open PhD positions in the lab: nature.com/naturecareers/… Email for more infos.

We are looking for a PhD student or a postdoc for a new exciting study of lysogeny in cyanobacteria that includes both bioinformatic and molecular analyases. I'm now in #ISME19, so if you're here look for me and we can chat.

We are looking for a master M2 student to work on an exciting project dealing with bacterial-phage interplay. sfbi.fr/emplois/offre/…

עכשיו בעברית, ובצורה יותר רשמית: פרוייקט שאני מאוד מחכה לראות אותו מתממש, מומן לאחרונה ע"י הISF. עכשיו מחפשת את האחד או האחת שיגרמו לו לקרות. אז אם אתם אוהבים מיקרוביולוגיה סביבתית, גנומים ובייחוד וירוסים, אשמח לשמוע מכם. אשמח אם תפיצו. תודה!

Tricking phages with reverse transcription Ilya Osterman summarized the beautiful discoveries from the labs of Sternberg Lab and Feng Zhang, who showed how bacteria defend against phages by expressing a protein that is not really encoded in their DNA science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We are hiring! Together with Philipp Popp, we are looking for two motivated PhD candidates to investigate fundamental immune mechanisms of bacteria against bacteriophages in the framework of the DFG priority program New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/269521

A nice little highlight here in Nature Reviews Microbiology by Adrian Cazares 🇲🇽 and team on our work (+ from the Dechesne lab) rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages! A hundred or so are known (most isolated in the last few years!) and we've only scratched the surface 👀 nature.com/articles/s4157…

My new book ‘Nexus’ is out today. It explores the AI Revolution we’re all living through, in relation to the long history of information networks – and tries to make sense of what’s happening right now. Available in bookstores or via bit.ly/GetNEXUS – as a printed book,

pf phage entangle cilia and mucins, preventing mucociliary clearance. Congratulations to Elizabeth B Burgener Patrick R. Secor Pam Cai Heilshorn Lab and Carlos Milla on this lovely work! doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…