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The inaugural Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, will be held on October 12 to 14, 2025, in Washington, DC, USA. Click to learn more and register today!
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Phaging War
Read our recent paper in Nature Microbiology about how temperate phages can act as defenders of their lysogenic bacterial realms.
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Microbacterium Phage Diversity
Click to read our 2020 paper about 116 Microbacterium phages in PLOS ONE.
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Like phages? Like quality education?
The SEA-PHAGES program gives undergraduates a real, discovery-based research experience in early college with the goal of creating lifelong scientists.
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A continuum of diversity
Read our recent paper published in eLIFE, which shares discoveries about 627 mycobacteriophages made by over 2600 undergraduate authors.
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A paper describing the scientific and educational success of the HHMI SEA-PHAGES program has been published in mBio.
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Phage Hunters: Don't forget to include valid GPS coordinates when submitting your phage so it will appear on our GPS map.
Welcome to the Actinobacteriophage Database at PhagesDB.org, an interactive site that collects and shares information related to the discovery, characterization, and genomics of phages that infect bacterial hosts within the phylum Actinobacteria.
What is DOGEMS?
Deconvolution Of Genomes after En Masse Sequencing, or DOGEMS (DAH-jums), is an approach to sequencing phages where individually …
Gene Content Similarity and Dissimilarity
Last year, one of the grad students in the Hatfull lab, Travis Mavrich, was the lead …
I'm very excited to announce that in the next few weeks, we'll be launching the new Actinobacter phage database which …