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NEW Preprint: Comprehensive interaction profiling and machine learning prediction of bacteriophage infectivity across clinically diverse Pseudomonas aeruginosa
*Imagine* a patient arrives with a life-threatening Pseudomonas infection resistant to every antibiotic in the hospital formulary. Phage therapy could save them, but which phages from a library of hundreds will actually work against their specific bacterial strain? Traditional testing takes weeks, and the urgency is such that the patient has just days. The Phage…
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PI Vivek Mutalik Honored by A-LIFT as 2026 Outstanding Mentor of the Year
Congratulations to Phage Foundry PI Vivek Mutalik (LBNL) for his award from Berkeley Lab Academic Learning Internships and Faculty Training (A-LIFT) team recognizing him as a 2026 Outstanding Mentor of the Year! The A-LIFT team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory designs and delivers experiential learning programs for K–12, undergraduate, post baccalaureate, graduate students, and faculty.…
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NEW Preprint: Enabling the prediction of phage receptor specificity from genome data
The Phage Foundry is excited to share a new preprint! Led by postdoctoral researcher Lucas Morinière (LBNL), this work represents a collaboration between PI Vivek Mutalik‘s lab at LBNL, co-I Adam Arkin‘s lab at UC Berkeley, and the broader Phage foundry team. Lucas set out to answer a deceptively simple question: can we predict which…
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NEW Review: Phage therapy in oncology: opportunities for cancer prevention and treatment
Congratulations to Phage Foundry PI Vivek Mutalik (LBNL), co-investigator Jamie Inman (LBNL), co-investigator Adam Arkin (UC Berkeley/LBNL), and research scientist Jian-Hua Mao for their new review in Trends in Molecular Medicine! The review, “Phage therapy in oncology: opportunities for cancer prevention and treatment,” proposes a phage–microbiome–immune–oncology axis that links microbial dynamics, immune modulation, and engineered…
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NEW Preprint: Discovery, induction, and screening of prophages in clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates
The Phage Foundry team is excited to share a new preprint led by Phage Foundry postdoctoral researcher Jessica Trinh (Sandia National Laboratories, Mageeney Lab) and co-investigator Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Laboratories). The preprint abstract is below. Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is a common bacterial pathogen in nosocomial infections. It has become one of the greatest threats…
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Conference Highlight: Realizing Phage Therapy in the UK
Phage Foundry PI Vivek Mutalik (LBNL) was invited to present at a conference discussing implementation of phage therapy in the UK and the latest breakthroughs in phage engineering research. The conference report, “Realizing phage therapy in the UK,” is now available in Nature Microbiology. Excepts are shared below. On November 25, 2025, the international phage…
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Conference Highlight: Phage Foundry Presents at Inaugural Microbiome Editing Gordon Research Conference
Congratulations to our Phage Foundry members for their contributions to the inaugural Microbiome Editing Gordon Research Conference (GRC)! The Gordon Research Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, physical and engineering sciences and their interfaces. The Microbiome Editing GRC, titled “A New Path Forward –…
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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…