News
15 July 2026 PhD alert! New PhD position in using AI to study phage evolution — applications open now, deadline 15th August 2026. See the ad →
10 July 2026 Microbial Genomics attends Viruses of Microbes 2026! Rafal gave an oral presenatiaon, while Bogna, Karol and Vyshakh presented their work during one of the poster sessions. What an incredible event it was!
1 July 2026 We’re hiring! New postdoctoral position in computational phage biology — applications open now, deadline 21st July. See the ad →
1 June 2026 New preprint! A huge piece of work by our PhD student, Vyshakh R Panicker, is out on bioRxiv – an atlas of structural modularity of Klebsiella pneumoniae phage receptor binding proteins! Read →
22 May 2026 New article! An important milestone for our collaboration with Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa is now out in Nature Communications. Read →
13 May 2026 Rafal gives two radio interviews about phages, one in Polskie Radio Jedynka and one in Radio Kraków. Check our Outreach page!→
28 Apr 2026 New article! Our work on the diverse capsule-targeting enzymes of temperate phages in Klebsiella pneumoniae is out in PLOS Biology. Read →
27 Apr 2026 We collaborated with a comic book artist to create a comic book about phages. Check our Outreach page!→
18 Mar 2026 Paula Konowalska joins Microbial Genomics as a MSc student. Her project will focus on using AI to predict polysaccharide-specific enzymes, in collaboration with the Group of Machine Learning Research at UJ (gmum.net).
29 Jan 2026 Wanangwa Ndovie successfully submits his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
22 Jan 2026 Rafal gives a talk at the symposium “Bacteriophages in Science and in Practice” at IBB PAS in Warsaw.
1 Dec 2025 Dr Karol Ciuchciński joins Microbial Genomics as a postdoc. His project will focus on analysing ONT-sequenced genomes of K. pneumoniae from an Australian clinical collection and studying their prophages.
19 Nov 2025 Rafal visits Nicholas M. I. Taylor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen.
10 Sep 2025 Rafal gives a talk at the Phage Protein Meeting 2025 in Ghent, Belgium.
9 Sep 2025 Our collaborative work on the Klebsiella depolymerase catalogue with Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa’s lab is out as a preprint. See the Publications page.