Phage News Elsewhere

  • C-MORE, The Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education is an NSF-sponsored Science and Technology Center designed to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the diverse assemblages of microorganisms in the sea. The website provides access to a variety information and resources, including for education and outreach.

Visualizing Small Scale Life

  • CELL SIZE AND SCALE, from Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah, note the T4 phage and other viruses near the E. coli bacterium, lysosome, and mitochondrion.

Animations of T4 bacteriophage

"Enzybiotics" — Can phage lytic enzymes provide alternative therapies to fight pathogenic bacteria?

Gabriel Mitchell and Joshua Weitz at the Georgia Institute of Technology collaborated with Daniel Nelson, a biochemist specializing in phage lytic enzymes at the University of Maryland, in a project to develop a novel assay to quantify how a new class of enzybiotics can explode bacterial pathogens. The results are available online on Physical Biology.

Discussion of this work can be found online:

from the Weitz Group

See also links from Betty Kutter's Evergreen State College Phage Lab