New horizons for synthetic phages. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria increasingly threaten agriculture, livestock, and human health. Phages, viruses that kill bacteria, can be a solution. This program aim

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New horizons for synthetic phages. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria increasingly threaten agriculture, livestock, and human health. Phages, viruses that kill bacteria, can be a solution. This program aims to deliver innovative experimental and computational phage tools and generate new knowledge in phage genomics and biology to analyse, create, manipulate, and control phages. Expected outcomes include discovering novel phage functions, new techniques to synthesise and control phages, and powerful genome-annotation methods. These significant advances in bioinformatics and synthetic biology will create phages that can save lives, treat livestock, protect our crops, and control environmental bacteria, making impactful contributions to the global antimicrobial resistance crisis.. Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships. Field: 3102 - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Lead: Prof Robert Edwards