Planomicrobium massiliensis

PhageLine

Science EN ↓ 32 episodes

PhageLine unpacks the science of bacteriophages, one paper at a time. From groundbreaking studies to surprising discoveries, we translate complex research into engaging conversations. Whether you are steeped in microbiology or just discovering the fascinating world of phages, PhageLine delivers a unique perspective on the science behind these bacterial predators. PhageLine is on BlueSky (@phageline.bsky.social). Follow us never to miss anything again. This podcast is generated using artificial intelligence. Infectious disease scientists review the scripts before production.

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Planomicrobium massiliensis

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Science

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Latest episode

Oct 11, 2025

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Episodes

PhageLine #32: Antibiotic and Probiotic Effects on the Gut Phageome 11.10.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the effect of an antibiotic and a probiotic on phage communities in swine gut microbiota as featured in a recent paper by Lemieux et al. in BMC Research Notes . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #31: Bacteriophage-Mediated Vitamin B12 Release 04.10.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss Vitamin B12 release through bacteriophage-mediated cell lysis of a marine bacterium as featured in a recent paper by Sultana et al. in ISME Communications . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #30: Bacteriophage-Fusidic Acid Synergy In An Ex Vivo Dermis Model 20.09.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the synergistic effect of bacteriophages and fusidic acid against meticillin-­resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in an ex vivo canine dermis model as featured in a recent paper by Ehling et al. in Veterinary Dermatology . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #29: Phage Therapy With Artificial Antigen-­Directed Immune Labeling 13.09.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss Bacteriophage immunotherapy with artificial antigen-­directed immune labeling, as presented in a recent paper by Yao et al. in Science Advances . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #28: A Beginner’s Guide to Viral Diversity 07.09.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss Phage quest: a beginner’s guide to explore viral diversity in the prokaryotic world which is a recent paper by Wendling et al. in Briefings in Bioinformatics . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #27: Anti-Restriction Phage Proteins 30.08.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the anti-restriction functions of injected phage proteins, as presented in a recent paper by Silas et al. in Nature Communications . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #26: Selection and Cost of Bacteriophage Resistance 23.08.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the in vitro and in vivo selection and cost of bacteriophage resistance on natural Escherichia coli, as presented in a recent paper by Cardoso et al. in FEMS microLife . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #25: Efficacy of Sequential Phage-Colistin Therapy 16.08.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage This week, we will discuss the efficacy of sequential phage-colistin therapy against carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii to overcome phage resistance, as presented in a recent paper by Choi et al. in Microbiology Spectrum . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #24: A Phage Hydrogel for Burn Wounds 09.08.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss a hydrogel with physically entrapped phages to control Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in burn wound models, as presented in a recent paper by Walji et al. in Biomaterials Advances . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #23: Bacteriophage Vaccine Against PEDV 05.07.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss a bacteriophage‑based virus‑like particle vaccine that induces cross‑reactive neutralising antibodies against porcine epidemic diarrhoea viruses (PEDV) by talking about a recent paper from Gu et al in Veterinary Research . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence.

PhageLine #22: Phage-Antibiotic Synergy 28.06.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss Phage-antibiotic synergy to combat multidrug-resistant strains of Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens by examining a recent paper by Morris et al. in Scientific Reports . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the episode's contents.

PhageLine #21: Microplastics and Bacteriophages 21.06.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the impact of microplastics on bacteriophage activity in aqueous environments by talking about a recent paper from Ochirbat et al. in the Journal of Physical Chemistry . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the episode's contents.

PhageLine #20: Is SARS-CoV-2 a Bacteriophage? 14.06.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the bacteriophage potential of SARS-CoV-2 in human gut microbiota by talking about a recent paper by Petrillo et al in F1000 . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the episode's contents.

PhageLine #19: Targeted Discovery by Co-Culture (Phage DisCo) 31.05.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss a method for the targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture, called Phage DisCo, which was recently published in mSystems by Eleanor Rand and her colleagues at Harvard University . Usually, I would say "have fun" here; however, there is also a dark side to this episode: all five federal grant...

PhageLine #18: A Highly Robust Acinetobacter baumannii Phage 24.05.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the in vitro genomic characterization and pre-clinical evaluation of a new thermostable lytic Obolenskvirus phage formulated as a hydrogel against carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii by discussing a recent paper by Sherif et al. in Scientific Reports . Have fun! This episode was generated using arti...

PhageLine #17: Personalized Phage Therapy in Cystic Fibrosis Infections 17.05.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss personalized inhaled bacteriophage therapy for treating multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis by talking about a recent publication by Chan et al in Nature Medicine . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the cont...

PhageLine #16: Bacteriophage Interactions 10.05.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss the effects of Phage–phage competition and biofilms on interactions between two virulent bacteriophages and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which were recently published by Bürkle et al. in ISME . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the conten...

PhageLine #15: Identifying Phage Depolymerases 03.05.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will discuss PhageDPO , a machine-learning-based computational framework for identifying phage depolymerases, recently published by Viera et al. in Elsevier's Computers in Biology and Medicine . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the contents...

PhageLine #14: Phage Recognition and Immunogenicity in Humans 26.04.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will focus on the differences in phage recognition and immunogenicity in humans unraveled in a recent paper by Le et al. in the European Journal of Immunology . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the contents of the episode.

PhageLine #13: Optimizing Bacteriophage Engineering Through an Accelerated Evolution Platform 12.04.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will focus on optimizing phage engineering through an accelerated evolution platform by discussing a recent paper by Favor et al. from Nextbiotics Inc. in Scientific Reports . Have fun! This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the contents of the episode.

PhageLine #12: Biofilm Models for Phage Therapy of Diabetic Foot Ulcers 05.04.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will focus on 3D models for mimicking biofilms in diabetic foot ulcers for phage therapy . German researchers from Frankfurt and Jena recently reviewed this topic. The phage lab at the University Hospital Frankfurt was recently featured in Capsid & Tail for having built its own phage laboratory from scratch under ver...

PhageLine #11: Adsorption Mechanisms 29.03.2025

Hello and welcome to PhageLine - your line to everything phage. This week, we will focus on the mechanisms of tailed bacteriophage adsorption. For that, we will discuss a review from Storms and Sauvageau from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, which was published in Elsevier's "Virology" in 2015. Have fun! This episode was generated using...

PhageLine #10: Phage-Derived Endolysins in Food Safety 22.03.2025

Welcome to PhageLine. This week, we will focus on the applications of bacteriophage-derived endolysins for foodborne bacterial pathogens and food safety , a topic recently reviewed by Kahn et al. from Shenzhen University in Frontiers of Microbiology. Have fun! #medicine #biology #bacteriophages #infection #amr #basicresearch #food #foodsafety This episode was generated using artificial intelligenc...

PhageLine #9: Functional Genomics with CRISPRi-ART 15.03.2025

Welcome to PhageLine. This week, we will focus on CRISPRi-ART, a method for functional genomics of diverse bacteriophages published by Benjamin Adler et al. from the University of California in Nature Microbiology at the end of February. Have fun! #medicine #biology #bacteriophages #infection #amr #basicresearch #CRISPR #genomics #cas13 This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An...

PhageLine #8: Synergy of Mucoactive Drugs and Phages 08.03.2025

Welcome to PhageLine. This week we will examine the synergistic action of mucoactive drugs and phages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae . Have fun! #medicine #biology #bacteriophages #cough #amb #nac #infection #amr This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the contents of the episode.

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