Check out this news article highlighting the findings of our Science paper and the next steps. Great collaboration with Junjie Zhang TAMU BCBP Center for Phage Technology Yiruo Lin @TAMU Matthias D. Koch @Shaevitz @Gitai1 Yinghao Wu Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official!

agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2024/04/10/res…

Our undergrad student researcher Gabriella Ganser won the second place award at this year’s Texas A&M System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) Symposium held at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi! TAMUSLSAMP tamuslsamp.org/2024-tamus-lsa…

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…

Our newest paper on physiological characterization of single-gene lysis (sgl) proteins: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…. The Sgls are segregated to operational types based on physiological analysis, as a first step toward the expectations for new antibiotic development.

News article on the CPT's Founding Director Ry Young as the featured speaker at NIH’s annual DeWitt Stetten Jr. Lecture
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After maintaining our own Galaxy-Apollo instance for >10 years, we are transferring our primary workflows to the European Galaxy instance (accessible at phage.usegalaxy.eu), read more details at cpt.tamu.edu/the-cpt-galaxy…

Some of our phage protocols including phage DNA extraction, genome sequencing and assembly, and very importantly, genome closure from the assembled contig, are now available online! link.springer.com/protocol/10.10…

Just set up the CPT account on Blue Sky, if you are on it, follow us! bsky.app/profile/phaget…

Our newest paper on engineering Burkholderia phage is out! This auto-plaquing phage makes lots of true vir mutants and a new tail fiber fusion gives it expanded host range. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37943040/

If you'd like to see me, Vincent Racaniello & Andrew Scharenberg discuss the potential of viruses as medicine at the next #SXSW 2024 , vote for our #SXSW panel on #PanelPicker by August 20:

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At the panel following a screening of the very compelling Salt in my Soul at #EvergreenPhage2023 . L-R Tom Patterson, Martha Clokie, Steff Strathdee and Diane Shader Smith

Generously funded by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️
and Thomas Patterson to the CPT, the 2023 Thomas Patterson Graduate Fellowship goes to Zihao Yu from Lanying Zeng Lab. Zihao does single-cell studies of phage genome replication and infection mechanisms cpt.tamu.edu/thomas-l-patte…

Congratulations to Zihao Yu of the Zeng lab at Texas A&M University for winning the 2023 Gisela Mosig award sponsored by New England Biolabs! Texas A&M AgriLife Research TAMU BCBP

Congratulations to Maeve McLaughlin 🧫🏳️‍⚧️ of @MSU_MMG for winning the 2023 Center for Phage Technology award for best overall phage abstract! Apologies for tweeting out the incorrect award title earlier.

Our new case study in collaboration with Saima Aslam, IPATH and Monash University on using phages to prevent recurrent UTI is now in print! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa…

Excited to share our paper showing that #phage can interrupt the #rUTI cycle with lasting effects against the targeted pathogen @ipath Center for Phage Technology
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'With superbugs on the rise, physicians like Rao have sought alternative therapies for their critically ill patients...
There’s colistin, the World War II–era drug...
There's prayer...
And there are phages...'
via JAMA JAMA Network
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Preprint is up on our Cystic Fibrosis Foundation-supported project to engineer phages active against CF-associated Burkholderia! twitter.com/RS_Preprints/s…

We are back talking GMP & phages w/regulators & experts in the field.

Phage Phriday “Just say no to GMP?”with 𝔸𝕕𝕣𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕒 ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕒, Jean-Paul Pirnay, Barbara Brenner phages_to_patients, Patrick Druggan, and more!
Friday, 31 Mar at 8:00 PM CEST in @clubhouse. Join us! clubhouse.com/event/MKBbKA10…