Abstract
Attracting about 100 participants, the fifth edition of our French Phages.fr annual conference was once more a success. This year’s conference took place at the Institute for Structural Biology on the European Electron and Photon Campus in Grenoble, 8–9 October 2019. Similar to previous years, our meeting gathered scientists mainly working in France, from academic labs and hospitals as well as from industry. We also had the pleasure of welcoming attendees from different European countries and even beyond. The conference was divided into four sessions: Ecology and Evolution, Phage Therapy and Biotechnology, Structure and Assembly and Phage–Host Interaction, each opened by a keynote lecture. The talks, selected from abstracts, gave the opportunity for young scientists (especially students and post-docs) to present their project and results in a friendly atmosphere. Poster sessions also favoured interactions and discussions between young researchers and more senior scientists. Here, we provide a summary of the topics developed during the conference.
Highlights
Bacteriophages or phages, viruses that infect bacteria, are ubiquitous on Earth
The Phages.fr network aims at federating researchers mainly located in France who use bacteriophages or their applications in their research, in a very large range of projects
The results of this study suggest that the host range should not be the only selection criteria for phage therapy and that they should integrate the phylogenetic information of the targeted bacteria
Summary
Bacteriophages or phages, viruses that infect bacteria, are ubiquitous on Earth. During the first half of the 20th century the study of phage by physicists interested in understanding the basis of life, lead to the birth of a new scientific field, Molecular Biology (for a review [3]). The Phages.fr network aims at federating researchers mainly located in France who use bacteriophages or their applications in their research, in a very large range of projects (ecology and evolution, molecular mechanisms of infection, genetic regulation, industrial and therapeutic applications, etc.). Our yearly meeting gives them the opportunity to interact, discuss, share experiences and initiate new collaborations. This year, this community met at the Institute for Structural Biology, on the European Photon and Neutron Campus in Grenoble, 8–9 October 2019 (Figure 1). Isolation and characterization of the bacteriophages infecting Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis
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