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C&T Round Up for February!

Issue 165 | February 25, 2022
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This week, we highlight the features we published in Feb — learn about digital phagograms, phageSuisse and the recently held Bacteriophage Therapy Summit!

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C&T Round Up for February!

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Jessica Sacher PhD
Phage microbiologist and co-founder of Phage Directory
Co-founderPostdoctoral Researcher
Iredell Lab, Phage Directory, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia, Phage Australia
Email jessica@phage.directory
Twitter @JessicaSacher
Website https://phage.ca
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Phage characterization, Phage-host interactions, Phage Therapy, Molecular Biology

I’m a co-founder of Phage Directory and have a Ph.D in Microbiology and Biotechnology from the University of Alberta (I studied Campylobacter phage biology). For Phage Directory, I oversee community building, phage sourcing, communications, science, and our awesome team of volunteers.

As of Feb 2022, I’ve recently joined Jon Iredell’s group in Sydney, Australia as a postdoctoral research scientist for the Phage Australia project. I’m diving back into the lab to help get Phage Australia’s country-wide phage therapy system up and running here, working to streamline workflows for phage sourcing, biobanking and collection of phage/bacteria/patient matching and monitoring data, and integrating it all with Phage Directory’s phage exchange, phage alerts and phage atlas systems. I’m also delving into phage manufacturing and quality control.

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In this month’s Capsid & Tail Monthly Round Up issue, we’re highlighting the three feature articles we published in February. Be sure to check them out if you missed them, and let us know if you have thoughts, comments or questions! Reach us anytime by email or Slack!

C&T Throwback!

There’s lots of great phage stuff in the C&T archive! Check out this article on Phage therapy in the human gut by Sabrina Green!

Thanks so much to Steph Lynch for finding and summarizing updates, jobs and community posts this week!

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Jessica Sacher PhD
Phage microbiologist and co-founder of Phage Directory
Co-founderPostdoctoral Researcher
Iredell Lab, Phage Directory, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia, Phage Australia
Email jessica@phage.directory
Twitter @JessicaSacher
Website https://phage.ca
Skills

Phage characterization, Phage-host interactions, Phage Therapy, Molecular Biology

I’m a co-founder of Phage Directory and have a Ph.D in Microbiology and Biotechnology from the University of Alberta (I studied Campylobacter phage biology). For Phage Directory, I oversee community building, phage sourcing, communications, science, and our awesome team of volunteers.

As of Feb 2022, I’ve recently joined Jon Iredell’s group in Sydney, Australia as a postdoctoral research scientist for the Phage Australia project. I’m diving back into the lab to help get Phage Australia’s country-wide phage therapy system up and running here, working to streamline workflows for phage sourcing, biobanking and collection of phage/bacteria/patient matching and monitoring data, and integrating it all with Phage Directory’s phage exchange, phage alerts and phage atlas systems. I’m also delving into phage manufacturing and quality control.

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Sacher, J. (2022). C&T Round Up for February! Capsid & Tail, (165). Retrieved from https://phage.directory/capsid/round-up-feb-2022
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  • journal = {Capsid & Tail},
  • number = {165},
  • publisher = {Phage Directory},
  • title = {C&T Round Up for February!},
  • url = {https://phage.directory/capsid/round-up-feb-2022},
  • author = {Sacher, Jessica},
  • date = {2022-02-25},
  • year = {2022},
  • month = {2},
  • day = {25},
}
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