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Conference Highlight: Phage Foundry Captivates at the Inaugural IAS Conference on Bacteriophages
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…
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Phage Foundry Collaborates with Phage Pathways
In August and September, Phage Foundry joined teams with the Phage Pathways team at San Francisco State University to provide two hands-on workshops for the 2025 Phage Pathways cohort. Phage Pathways, also funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, provides undergraduate and graduate students in Microbiology and Cell & Molecular Biology at San Francisco State…
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Phage Foundry Undergraduate Researchers Present at Summer 2025 Poster Session
Congratulations to our BRaVE Phage Foundry undergraduate student researchers, Cristina Prieto and Jonathan Ngai, who presented at the Arkin Lab Summer Semester Undergraduate Poster Session! The semi-annual poster session was hosted by co-investigator Adam Arkin’s Lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute Building at UC Berkeley on Monday, August 11, 2025. During the poster session, undergraduate researchers from…
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Phage Foundry Undergraduate Researchers Selected for SULI Program
Congratulations to Phage Foundry undergraduate researchers Isabella Murray and Madeline Svab, who have been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program! The DOE SULI program awards will support Murray’s and Svab’s ongoing research during the Fall 2025 term at PI Vivek Mutalik’s lab at Lawrence Berkeley…
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Phage Foundry Undergraduate Researchers Present at Spring 2025 Poster Session
Congratulations to our six Phage Foundry undergraduate researchers who presented at the Arkin Lab Spring Semester Undergraduate Poster Session! The semi-annual poster session was hosted by co-investigator Adam Arkin’s Lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. During the poster session, Phage Foundry undergraduate researchers from both the Arkin…
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Phage Foundry Presents at the 2025 DOE BER BSSD PI Meeting
The Phage Foundry presented three posters and three short talks at the Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research Program (BER) Biological and Systems Science Division (BSSD) Annual PI Meeting (BSSD PI Meeting) held in Arlington, Virginia, on March 31 – April 2, 2025. This annual meeting provides a venue for BSSD-supported PIs, colleagues,…
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Summer Research Intern Presents Poster at UC Berkeley College of Engineering Dean’s Society Research Conference
The Phage Foundry is proud to share that summer research intern in the Mutalik Lab, Valentine Lindarto, a UC Berkeley undergraduate bioengineering student, presented a poster at the Dean’s Society Research Conference held in Santa Clara, California, on October 16, 2024. Every Fall and Spring, the UC Berkeley College of Engineering College Relations team and…
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DOE Program Managers Visit Phage Foundry Facilities at Berkeley Lab
On Tuesday, October 1, Department of Energy (DOE) program managers visited Phage Foundry facilities at Berkeley Lab. The visit was led by principal investigator, Vivek Mutalik, and co-investigators Jamie Inman, Adam Deutschbauer, Hans Carlson, Harshini Mukundan, and Brady Cress (UC Berkeley). Program managers met team members including Denish Piya (project scientist, Mutalik Lab), Ryan Melnyk…
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Phage Foundry Investigator Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
Congratulations to Phage Foundry co-investigator, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist, Simon Roux, who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)! The ASM Microbiome Data Prize recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, development of standards and processes for data quality…
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Phage Foundry Participates in the 2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprentice Program (BLDAP)
By Madeline Svab and Isabella Murray Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, exist in every place on earth where bacteria live. Since bacteria are so numerous on the planet, phages can be isolated from nearly anywhere—even student’s samples from outdoor spaces in their local community. This is precisely what a cohort of 21 high school students…