Save the date! The 27th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting is coming to Canada for the first time in its history! 🦠 🧬
📅 July 25 - 29, 2027
📍 University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
More info to follow...
Revised story
Systematic receptor mapping in acapsular Klebsiella
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Delighted to see our work featured as a Research Highlight in
@natecoevo.nature.com 🧬
Ancient strep throat 🦠
nature.com/articles/s41...
😷 Strep throat is nothing new – a 700-year-old mummy proves it
🙌@msabrysarhan.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social
#aDNA #Genomics #StrepThroat #ScienceNews
🎊 New Preprint from phagefoundry.org ! Super excited to share our latest work on generating systematic phage-MDR P. aeruginosa interaction dataset & use of ML to predict phage susceptibility & phage cocktails from target genome sequences alone, w validations www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
"I’m interested in what viral communities look like in nature. The overwhelming majority of these are bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria."
💬 @ryancook94.bsky.social
Great piece and cover @science.org about how our field is uncovering the evolutionary and mechanistic connections between bacterial and eukaryotic immunity !
www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wars-between-microbes-gave-us-key-immune-defenses
www.biorxiv.org
Dr Ryan Cook describes viruses and the database he’s developed to help document and understand the diversity of viruses in nature
Happy to have played a small role in this cool piece of work led by Teagan Brown in the lab of @evelienadri.bsky.social. She looked at the impacts of using a phage cocktail in a batch-culture fermentation colon model 🦠 #phages
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Postdoc position available within Malick Gibani’s team at Imperial College London, part of a Wellcome-funded project focused on the microbiota associated with the 2025 CHANTS Salmonella human challenge study. #microbiome #jobs
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Phage Canada
Vivek Mutalik
Vivek Mutalik
Guido Valverde
The human gut microbiome is a complex community that plays an important role in health, where perturbations can result in dysbiosis and disease. Bacteriophages (phages) can provide treatment for bacte...
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
New paper 🔔
Collaboration
@sullivan-lab.bsky.social
Marissa Gittrich led the work
Klebsiella phage biology has focused almost entirely on capsulated strains, but capsule loss is the #1 resistance mechanism under phage predation. We used a naturally acapsular host to reveal the receptor landscape
Ryan Cook
Professor Lesley Hoyles
Vivek Mutalik
New preprint! 🚨
Phage proteins don't act alone. Phages rely on homooligomerisation to assemble identical protein subunits into functional forms. But figuring out those exact configurations experimentally is tough. Learn about our approach in our new preprint! 👇 (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
