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April 4, 2024
Dr. Mutalik presenting overview of the Phage Foundry poster at the DOE Genomic Sciences Meeting at Washington DC.
April 2, 2024
Dr. Brady Cress explaining the Phage Foundry poster at the DOE Genomic Sciences Meeting at Washington DC. With Dr. Denish Piya.
Feb 1, 2024
Mohamad Alayouni joined the DOE's BRaVE Phage Foundry project as a research associate 🎉
Jan 2, 2024
Hemaa Selvakumar joined the DOE's BRavE Phage Foundry project as Postdoctoral Fellow ! 🎉
Dec 4, 2023
Two model phages characterized by new CRISPR-based technology extendible to diverse phages
https://enigma.lbl.gov/two-model-phages-characterized-by-new-crispr-based-technology-extensible-to-diverse-phages/
Dec 4, 2023
Two model phages characterized by new CRISPR-based technology extendible to diverse phages
https://enigma.lbl.gov/two-model-phages-characterized-by-new-crispr-based-technology-extensible-to-diverse-phages/
Dec 4, 2023
Phage CRISPRi paper published in PLoS Biology!! 🥳
Systematic and Scalable genome-wide essentiality mapping to identify nonessential genes in phages
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002416
Nov 1, 2023
Denish Piya joined the DOE's BRavE Phage Foundry project as Project scientist! 🥳
Nov 1, 2023
Flavien Maucourt joined the DOE's Viruses of Soil project as Postdoc fellow! 🥳
Sept 18, 2023
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 🎉
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 🎉
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
Oct 31, 2022
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
A beautiful work by Sean Carim and team on enigmatic phage-tail like particles
March 2021
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
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
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.