Welcome to PHAVES!
A seminar series for all phage enthusiasts around the world, from researchers to biotech companies to clinicians! Suitable for those starting their phage journey through to senior phage experts!
How PHAVES came about
During the pandemic, we heard from many of you that you were missing out on hearing about each other's phage work, and missing talking to your fellow phage researchers and developers! So we started a series of virtual phage events in 2020 called PHAVES.
We like to experiment with a range of formats, including seminars, AMAs, interviews, panels and more! Plus, we love to incorporate opportunities to meet and chat with other phage enthusiasts.
Event recordings: Most events are recorded and shared in Capsid & Tail and on YouTube after the fact. (Prospective speakers, let us know anytime if this will be an issue for you). Videos are posted on our Youtube channel: https://phage.directory/youtube
Event summaries: Event summaries are written up and published in Capsid & Tail, our weekly newsletter, usually the third week of each month. Sign up to receive it here: https://phage.directory/capsid
Subscribe to our PHAVES Events Series
Our events occur approximately every month, and we will email you the details the day of the event. Remembering to sign up for every event can get tedious, so you can just sign up here if you'd like to get updates for every event! (If it gets to be too much, unsubscribing is easy).
Once you're signed up, event details will be sent the day of each event.
Upcoming PHAVES
Phage Phun!
Last Wed of month at 9AM or 3PM Pacific. Next: Wed, Sept 29 at 3PM Pacific
We had so much fun with you all at the ‘Phage Phun’ sessions at Evergreen, that we’ve decided to incorporate these at the end of each month for the phage community at large!
Phage Phun: informal, self-serve Zoom breakout rooms, where you can hop between topic-based rooms and meet new phage phriends! At Evergreen we had rooms like ‘Catching up with phriends’, ‘Phage Therapy’, ‘Troubleshooting: bring a problem, get a solution’, ‘Phage in the Phield’ and more.
These will not be recorded; rather, the rooms will be open and you will be welcome to join and bring your coffee (or beer or other beverage!) and chat with others there.
We'll be hosting these monthly, at alternating times (9AM Pacific, then 3PM Pacific, repeating) on the last Wednesday of each month!
This webinar is sponsored by Phage Futures Europe 2021. Register here for their upcoming translational phage therapy conference, Nov 23-24, in Brussels, Belgium. Use code PD10 for 10% off!
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Details for individual events will be sent out right before the event starts.
Previous PHAVES
PhaLP: A Database for the Study of Phage Lytic Proteins and Their Evolution
Bjorn Criel
PhD student at Ghent University
Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients
Saima Aslam
Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Director of Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases service, Clinical lead at UCSD's IPATH
Molecular multitasking: inhibition of phage infection by aminoglycoside antibiotics
Aël Hardy
PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Phage therapy: a doctor-patient experience
Gina Suh
Infectious Diseases physician with expertise in musculoskeletal infectious diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
John Haverty
Phage therapy recipient
Phage therapy for difficult-to-treat infections in children
Ameneh Khatami
Senior lecturer in Child and Adolescent Health for The University of Sydney and paediatric infectious diseases physician at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Using machine learning to design phages with enhanced therapeutic features
Co-founder at Felix Biotechnology
Viral Host Range Database, an online tool for recording, analyzing and disseminating virus-host interactions
Quentin Lamy-Besnier
PhD Candidate at Institut Pasteur in Dr. Laurent Debarbieux’s Bacteriophage, Bacterium Host laboratory
Freedom from antibiotic purgatory?: Salvage phage therapy for cure of spinal hardware infection
Laura Damioli, MD
Assistant Professor Infectious Diseases, Director, Orthopedic Infectious Diseases | University of Colorado Anschutz
Greg Canfield, MD, PhD
ID Fellow, PGY6 | Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Anschutz
Interview with Dr. Randy Fish on successfully treating diabetic foot wounds with phages
Dr. Randy Fish, DPM
Podiatrist in chronic wound healing and clinical research using bacteriophage in diabetic foot infections, Tacoma Diabetic Foot Clinic and PhageBiotics Research Foundation
Jack of all strains, master of none? Host range and efficacy in phages of a phytopathogenic bacterium
Clara Torres-Barceló
Plant Pathology Unit, INRAE, Avignon, France
Phage Therapy: The Australian Experience
Jonathan Iredell
Senior Infectious Diseases Specialist at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
Phages as a teaching tool, and stories from 60 years of phage
Head of the phage biology lab and professor emeritus at the Evergreen State College
2021 Kickoff party!
Volunteer PHAVES Coordinator
Co-founder of Phage Directory
Co-founder of Phage Directory
Learning How to Engineer Genomes by Building Phage
Assistant Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and CSO of Hyperdrive Science
Phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs), piracy in the phage world and insights on their application in biotechnology
Postdoc at University of Copenhagen
Up scaling phage production in a small biotech company
Principle Bacteriophage Scientist at Fixed Phage
The potential of phage therapy in aquaculture
Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, and co-founder of Aquatic Biologicals
TAILORing Phage Therapy for the Gut and Beyond
Maresso Lab, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States Tailor Service Center, Houston, TX, United States
Ask Me Anything: Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens answers questions about phage taxonomy, viromics, and her transcontinental career progression from PhD student to postdoc to new PI
Group Leader at the Quadram Institute Bioscience and Chair of the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV
All About Vitalis: How Pranav and Apurva Johri improved phage therapy access in India
Co-founder of Vitalis Phage Therapy
Co-founder of Vitalis Phage Therapy
Boosting phage exploration by Artificial Intelligence: what could data science do for your research?
R&D Manager, AI Software Engineer , PhD student. PhageAI co-creator, Phages2050 promoter. @ptynecki
Combined effect of bacteriophage treatment and chemical disinfection on surface-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa
PhD, postdoctoral fellow at Eawag
Virtual phage series kick-off party: Welcome to PHAVES!
Co-founder of Phage Directory
Co-founder of Phage Directory
Present, or suggest a speaker, topic!
Do you have a topic in mind or a person you'd love to hear from? (Eg. I'd like to hear Betty Kutter give an overview of the history of phage therapy; or, I'd like to hear phage therapy biotech companies discuss how they're designing their clinical trials).
Submit your nominations on Slack: https://phage.directory/slack
Email us at: [email protected]
Or sign up to speak below:
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[October 2020 Update]: Our seminar schedule for 2020 is full, but we are considering If launching PHAVES Season 2 for 2021. If you're interested in presenting your research or your company's products in 2021, please sign up below. We'll get in touch to chat about the best format, length, and specifics.
Credits
PHAVES is brought to you thanks to the hard work of the following individuals!
Co-founder of Phage Directory
Volunteer PHAVES Coordinator
Co-founder of Phage Directory