Center for Phage Technology
phagetechnology.bsky.social
Center for Phage Technology
@phagetechnology.bsky.social
Located at Texas A&M University. Devoted to the study of bacteriophages for human health and agriculture. Home of the CPT Galaxy/Apollo phage annotation system. Cpt.tamu.edu
The recipient of the 2025 Thomas Patterson Graduate Student Fellowship is Michael Awuah from @jrrmicro.bsky.social Lab for his work decoding the molecular basis of phage lysis inhibition. We are grateful for the generous support of this award by Drs. Tom Patterson and @superbug-slayer.bsky.social!
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We welcome the visit of Dr. Michael Hust and Philip Heine @tu-braunschweig.de @tubsmedbiotech.bsky.social and appreciate their collaboration on ORFeome phage display projects!
May 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
@jasonjgill.bsky.social is talking at N=1 Collaborative Seminar TOMORROW 12:30pm EST on "Phage Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections: Past and Future" , featuring some of the CPT work. www.n1collaborative.org/post/phage-t...
Phage Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections: Past and Future
February 10, 2025 at 12:30 pm US ESTThe session will begin with a presentation from our guest speaker, Dr. Jason Gill, providing an overview of the science and key lessons from bacteriophage developme...
www.n1collaborative.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Read our recent paper by @yu-zihao.bsky.social using a fluorescence reporter system that facilitates the visualization of individual copies of phage DNA throughout the phage life cycle, along with the lysis–lysogeny reporters. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Fine-tuned spatiotemporal dynamics of DNA replication during phage lambda infection | Journal of Virology
Temperate bacteriophages, such as lambda, incorporate environmental cues including host abundance and nutrient conditions to make optimal decisions between propagation and dormancy. A higher phage-to-...
journals.asm.org
December 7, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Bonus to our new followers: Our phage database prototype is now online:
dbop.phagetech.org. Last updated by @jrrmicro.bsky.social, currently only holds spanin proteins.
dbop
The Center for Phage Technology's Database of Phage
dbop.phagetech.org
November 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Some of our phage protocols including phage DNA extraction, genome sequencing and assembly, and very importantly, genome closure from the assembled contig, are now available online!
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Phage DNA Extraction, Genome Assembly, and Genome Closure
Bacteriophages, or more simply phages, are currently experiencing a renaissance in life science research for their roles in natural microbial communities, their potential use as antimicrobials, and bi...
link.springer.com
November 21, 2023 at 5:06 PM