TIP 2 Oct 2023 Jorvik: a membrane-containing phage that will likely found a new family within Vinavirales Congratulation to Pavol on to paper about new membrane-containing phage
15 Jun 2023 Success of our student in the BYSCC competition Congratulations! Our student Tomáš Chlubna was awarded 2nd shared place in the 42nd Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition (BYSCC) held online in Beijing, China! Tomáš presented his work “Phage therapy of ESKAPE group pathogens”.
TIP 13 Feb 2023 Staphylococcus aureus Prophage-Encoded Protein Causes Abortive Infection and Provides Population Immunity against Kayviruses Kuntová L. & Mašlaňová I. et al., mBio 2023The first described system of abortive infection in staphylococci
November 2022 Bacteriophages can be highly effective in the treatment of many infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics, says Jiří Doškař Interview published at Current News Fac. Sci. MU.
27 Sep 2022 Tail proteins of phage SU10 reorganize into the nozzle for genome delivery Šiborová et al., Nature Communications 2022 Congratulations to Martina for solving the structure of the peculiar phage SU 10 from the genus Kuravirus.
20 Sep 2022 Global Transcriptomic Analysis of Bacteriophage-Host Interactions between a Kayvirus Therapeutic Phage and Staphylococcus aureus Finstrlová et al. Microbiology Spectrum 2022
20 Sep 2022 Structure and mechanism of DNA delivery of a gene transfer agent Bárdy et al. Nature Communications 2020
20 Sep 2022 Analysis of Bacteriophage-Host Interaction by Raman Tweezers. Pilát et al. Analytical Chemisty 2020