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Congratulations to @microbial_maeve 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.

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

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…

If you'd like to see me, MicrobeTV & Andrew Scharenberg discuss the potential of viruses as medicine at the next #SXSW2024, vote for our #SXSW panel on #PanelPicker by August 20: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/141456

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/

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

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…

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…

News article on the CPT's Founding Director Ry Young as the featured speaker at NIH’s annual DeWitt Stetten Jr. Lecture nihrecord.nih.gov/2024/02/16/you…

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.

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 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…

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 Texas A&M University Matthias D. Koch @Shaevitz @Gitai1 Yinghao Wu Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official! agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2024/04/10/res…

Congratulations to Siva Uppalapati of the Vázquez-Torres Lab at the University of Colorado for winning the 2024 Center for Phage Technology award for best overall phage abstract! Siva Uppalapati Asma Hatoum-Aslan, PhD

We are so grateful and honored to receive a generous gift from Love, Tito’s — the philanthropic heart of TitosVodka — through Texas A&M Foundation specifically to support our phage therapy research!! Texas A&M AgriLife TAMU BCBP agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2024/06/26/lov…

Truly greatful for the awesome support by PosterSmith to get our poster on time despite hurricane delays. Highly recommend their poster printing service! Several CPT members will attend Viruses of Microbes 2024 next week and looking forward to it!

Our own Jolene Ramsey is presenting the intriguing story of phage N4 lysis inhibition molecular mechanism at the wonderfully organized Viruses of Microbes 2024

Frankie Antillon (mentored by Ry Young, and working on single-gene lysis of ssRNA phages ) is the recipient of this year's Thomas L. Patterson Graduate Fellowship, a award funded by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️ and Thomas Patterson since 2019 to support PhD phage research at the Center for Phage Technology

The CPT's Phage Naming Service is now available at phns.phagetech.org! This service lets you quickly check if a phage name already exists in either NCBI or PhagesDB.

If you are on Bluesky, find us there! bsky.app/profile/phaget…