Center for Phage Technology
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Devoted to the study of bacteriophages for human health and agriculture. Home of the CPT Galaxy/Apollo phage annotation system. Located at Texas A&M University.
College Station, TX
Joined February 2018
The CPT's Phage Naming Service is now available at https://t.co/KDav1RkJbu! This service lets you quickly check if a phage name already exists in either NCBI or PhagesDB.
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Frankie Antillon (mentored by Ry Young, and working on single-gene lysis of ssRNA phages ) is the recipient of this year's Thomas L. Patterson Graduate Fellowship, a award funded by @chngin_the_wrld and Thomas Patterson since 2019 to support PhD phage research at the @TAMU_CPT
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Truly greatful for the awesome support by @postersmith to get our poster on time despite hurricane delays. Highly recommend their poster printing service! Several CPT members will attend @VoM_2024 next week and looking forward to it!
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We are so grateful and honored to receive a generous gift from Love, Tito’s — the philanthropic heart of @TitosVodka — through @TXAMFoundation specifically to support our phage therapy research!! @AgriLife @TAMUBCBP
https://t.co/6aO031oj0G
agrilifetoday.tamu.edu
Love, Tito’s recently awarded a gift to the Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M to support new tools for treating bacterial infections.
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Congratulations to Siva Uppalapati of the Vázquez-Torres Lab at the University of Colorado for winning the 2024 @TAMU_CPT award for best overall phage abstract! @meetsivaram @crisprcas10
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Check out this news article highlighting the findings of our Science paper and the next steps. Great collaboration with Junjie Zhang @TAMUBCBP @TAMU_CPT Yiruo Lin @TAMU @MatthiasDKoch1 @Shaevitz @Gitai1 Yinghao Wu @EinsteinMed! https://t.co/9nUVkZLdvo
agrilifetoday.tamu.edu
AgriLife scientists recently uncovered how certain viruses disable bacteria, offering avenues for combating drug-resistant infections.
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Our undergrad student researcher Gabriella Ganser won the second place award at this year’s Texas A&M System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) Symposium held at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi! @tamuslsamp
https://t.co/mAV3KcCG1k
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Very excited to announce that the work lead by @ZengLanying and Junjie Zhang is now online in Science!! The paper details the molecular mechanism of type IV pili detachment by ssRNA phage PP7, which may be common among other ssRNA phages
science.org
The retractile type IV pilus (T4P) is important for virulence of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) phage PP7 binds to T4P and is brought to the...
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Our newest paper on physiological characterization of single-gene lysis (sgl) proteins: https://t.co/WfsHVnjzar. The Sgls are segregated to operational types based on physiological analysis, as a first step toward the expectations for new antibiotic development.
journals.asm.org
The ssRNA phage world has recently undergone a metagenomic expansion upward of a thousandfold. Each genome likely carries at least one single-gene lysis (sgl) cistron encoding a protein that single...
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News article on the CPT's Founding Director Ry Young as the featured speaker at NIH’s annual DeWitt Stetten Jr. Lecture https://t.co/V8FF55WWMl
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After maintaining our own Galaxy-Apollo instance for >10 years, we are transferring our primary workflows to the European Galaxy instance (accessible at https://t.co/B1hVSRNBsl), read more details at https://t.co/Wbw6z5kIYe
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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!
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Just set up the CPT account on Blue Sky, if you are on it, follow us!
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Our newest paper on engineering Burkholderia phage is out! This auto-plaquing phage makes lots of true vir mutants and a new tail fiber fusion gives it expanded host range.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Burkholderia infections are a significant concern in people with CF and other immunocompromising disorders, and are difficult to treat with conventional antibiotics due to their inherent drug...
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If you'd like to see me, @profvrr & @andyscharenberg discuss the potential of viruses as medicine at the next #SXSW2024, vote for our #SXSW panel on #PanelPicker by August 20: https://t.co/cjE6QMXQHt
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Generously funded by @chngin_the_wrld and Thomas Patterson to the CPT, the 2023 Thomas Patterson Graduate Fellowship goes to Zihao Yu from @ZengLanying Lab. Zihao does single-cell studies of phage genome replication and infection mechanisms
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Congratulations to Zihao Yu of the Zeng lab at Texas A&M University for winning the 2023 Gisela Mosig award sponsored by @NEBiolabs! @txresearch @TAMUBCBP
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Congratulations to @microbial_maeve of @MSU_MMG for winning the 2023 @TAMU_CPT award for best overall phage abstract! Apologies for tweeting out the incorrect award title earlier.
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