UC San Diego School of Medicine has been ranked #5 for NIH funding among public medical schools! 🎉

Check out this free webinar series from World Health Organization (WHO) on #phagetherapy !

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#Phages avoid autoimmunity from cognate immune systems as an intrinsic part of their life cycles, according to a new paper by Jakob T Rostøl (@imperialcollege) and colleagues.

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Very excited to announce that the work lead by Lanying Zeng and Junjie Zhang is now online in Science!! The paper details the molecular mechanism of type IV pili detachment by ssRNA phage PP7, which may be common among other ssRNA phages science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

.DanicaSchmidtke (@Stanford) and colleagues published a new preprint on how the prototypic crAssphage demonstrates a #phage -plasmid lifestyle, persisting extrachromosomally without integrating into the host’s chromosome.

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Excited to announce Cystic Fibrosis Foundation funding for planning a #BCC #phage trial with great partners John LiPuma Center for Phage Technology Lab 404 ran nir-paz Daria Van Tyne Ghady Haidar MD and many more PhAB collaborators! IPATH Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️

Good stuff!! Check it out

In the central Ohio area? RSVP to see our codirector Dr. Steffanie Strathdee speak at one of the Ohio State University Science Sunday talks!

#phage therapy #phage #microbiology Ohio State UC San Diego Health Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️

RSVP here:
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🤔A phage field divided! (Or is it?)

Sometimes phage therapy folks feel separate from phage diagnostics & phage display folks. But we can & should probably all learn from each other!

This week in C&T, Elisabet More PBD Biotech shares how they use phages to detect hidden TB! 👇

The phiKZ jumbo phages build a protein based nucleus to protect their DNA(!), but what do they do before the nucleus is built? Led by outstanding post-doc Deepto Mozumdar, here we identify host and phage proteins in an immediate early phage lipid vesicle.
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Amazing stuff! Go check it out!

Very proud to present our new, extraordinary special issue ‘Variable Viruses’! This interdisciplinary issue delves into the multifaceted aspects that shape our use, understanding, and research of phages - Huge thanks to Claas Kirchhelle & Charlotte Brives👏

👉liebertpub.com/toc/phage/5/1

Wondering how top clinicians are thinking about phage therapy these days?

Prof. urmi bajpai of International Bacteriophage Research Consortium recently hosted a talk series w/ Gina Suh, Chip Schooley, @iredell_lab, Gopal Nath & Mzia Kutadeladze.

Link to blog post & recordings below! 👇

.PrecisionPhage, a new startup based in Finland, has launched Phagenomics, a browser-based tool for #phage genome analysis to streamline assembly and annotation for researchers and clinicians.

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Happy #MatchDay2024

Congrats to all the UC San Diego School of Medicine graduates and a big welcome to the new members of the #UCSDHealth team! ⭐️💙🎉