What we do

An overview of the Centre's infrastructure, workflows, and research-support activity.

The PhageBank is focused on building large-scale resources and infrastructure to advance bacteriophage research and its application to antimicrobial resistance. The Centre undertakes high-throughput phage isolation from diverse environments, creating extensive, well-characterised biobanks of bacteriophages alongside matched clinical bacterial isolates.

A key strength of the PhageBank is its coordinated biobanking strategy, with distributed storage across multiple sites to ensure resilience, accessibility, and long-term preservation of valuable biological materials. To support both fundamental research and translational applications, including phage therapy development.

The PhageBank utilises cutting edge facilities for high-throughput sequencing of both phages and bacteria, enabling rapid genome sequencing. Combined with automated pipelines for assembly, and annotation. This integrated approach allows detailed characterisation of phage-host systems at scale, supporting discovery and the development of genomics-informed therapeutic strategies.