Sept 18, 2023

The Phage Foundry funding announced as a part of the Department of Energy’s Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) initiative

Two scientists in the Biosciences Area, Greg Hura and Vivek Mutalik, are heading up research projects that are part of the Department of Energy’s Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) initiative. This effort supports national biopreparedness and response capabilities that can be advanced with DOE’s distinctive capabilities.

Aug 18, 2023

Hans Carlson's paper out in ISME Communications! 🎉

Geochemical constraints on bacteriophage infectivity in terrestrial environments

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00297-7

March 13, 2023

Press release on Ben Adler's Single gene lysis paper in Nat Chem Bio 🎉

A quick new way to screen virus proteins for antibiotic properties

Bacteriophages could hold the key to combating antibiotic resistance. Working with them just got a lot easier.

March 13, 2023

Innovative Genomics Institite press release on Ben Adler's Single gene lysis paper in Nat Chem Bio 🎉

Secrets of smallest phages  

In a new paper in Nature Chemical Biology, IGI Affiliate Researchers Vivek Mutalik and Adam Arkin report advances in understanding phage biology that bring us closer to using these small predators to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Mutalik talked with IGI’s Hope Henderson about their new findings. 

Jan 5, 2023

Phage Therapy review paper out in Cell! 🎉

Phage therapy: From biological mechanisms to future directions

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.017

Oct 31, 2022

Broad spectrum crispr cas13a enables efficient phage genome editing

Scientists from the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, North Carolina State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab use RNA-targeting CRISPR systems to drive genome editing across phage diversity.

Oct 31, 2021

Mutalik Lab wins LBNL Biosciences LDRD funding to research on Single strand RNA Phage isolation, characterization and Engineering  🥳

https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2021/04/01/biosciences-area-fy22-ldrd-projects/

https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2022/12/15/biosciences-area-fy23-ldrd-projects/

April 2021

Bacterial homing missiles 

A beautiful work by Sean Carim and team on enigmatic phage-tail like particles

March 2021

A tale of tailocins bacterial stabbing tools

A beautiful work by Sean Carim and team on enigmatic phage-tail like particles

Dec 10, 2020

Press release on PLoS Biology paper using CRISPRi, RB-TnSeq and Dub-seq to systematically screen E. coli phages 

Phages natures hidden arsenal 

A new approach for studying phages-bacteria interactions will help scientists study the intricate offensive and defensive chemical tactics used by parasite and host. These microscopic battles have implications for medicine development, agricultural research, and climate science.

Oct, 2020

Press release on PLoS Biology paper using CRISPRi, RB-TnSeq and Dub-seq to systematically screen E. coli phages 

https://innovativegenomics.org/news/vivek-mutalik-phages-antibiotic-resistance/

In a paper published today in PLoS Biology, IGI researchers Vivek Mutalik of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Adam Arkin of UC Berkeley report advances in understanding phage biology and phage resistance that pave the way towards using these small predators to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In September, Mutalik talked with IGI science writer Hope Henderson about this work.

Dec 2020  

Interview with Dr. Mutalik on High throughput genetic tools for phage biology

Capsid and Tails, Phage Directory

Jan 21, 2019

Dub-seq flagship paper published in nature communications

In a seminal paper published January 18 in Nature Communications, the Dub-seq team presented details of the technique and proof-of-concept work applied to the bacterium E. coli.

Dub-seq wins 2017 R & D 100 award 🥳 

Dub-seq Named a Finalist for R&D 100 Awards 🎉

March 13, 2013

Successful BIOFAB projects, papers and celebration of SynBERC teams

Predictability the brass ring for synthetic biology