The Phage Foundry team had a strong showing at the inaugural International Anti-viral Society-USA (IAS-USA) Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics held on October 12-14, 2025 in Washington DC, USA. Academic and other investigators met for this 2.5-day conference that included state-of-the-art invited talks, symposia, and workshops, as well as abstract-driven presentations focused on recent scientific advances and future clinical applications of bacteriophages.
Co-investigator Britt Koskella (UC Berkeley) served as a member of the Scientific Program Committee, supporting curation of a rigorous scientific program.
PI Vivek Mutalik (LBNL) shared a talk titled “Systematic High-Throughput Characterization of Phage-Host Interactions to Build Predictive Models of Phage Susceptibility,” during a session on “Bacteriophage Engineering, Synthetic Biology, and Advancing Therapeutic Utility.”
Phage Foundry team members also presented a number of short talks and posters:
Postdoctoral researcher Sarshad Koderivalappil (LBNL, Mutalik Lab) presented a poster titled “High-resolution lineage tracking of host-phage co-evolution.”
Postdoctoral researcher Avery Noonan (LBNL, Arkin Lab) shared a presentation titled “Strain-level predictive modeling of bacteriophage-host interactions.”
Postdoctoral researcher Benjamin Adler (UC Berkeley, Cress Lab) shared a presentation.
Postdoctoral researcher Lucas Morinière (LBNL, Mutalik & Arkin Lab), a colleague working on the NSF EDGE project, shared a presentation titled “Enabling prediction of E. coli phage adsorption strategy from genome data.”
The team was also joined by PhD graduate student Darian Doakes (UC Berkeley, Koskella Lab).
Congratulations to our Phage Foundry team members for a strong showing at the IAS-USA Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics!