The symposium "PHAGES-sur-Yvette" will be held on November 20^th and 21^st 2017 at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), on the CNRS campus of Gif-sur-Yvette. After Montpellier-2015 and Marseille-2016, this meeting is the third colloquium on phages organized by the French multidisciplinary network PHAGES.fr, which aims at bringing together teams involved in bacteriophage research from France but also from abroad. Keynote lectures will be given by several invited international speakers who are expert in bacteriophages.

The scientific program will give an overview of current phage research and will foster the scientific interactions between teams working in various and complementary fields:

- Host-phage molecular interactions

- Ecology and Evolution

- Applications: Therapy and Biotechnology

 Invited speakers: 

Abram Aersten, KU Leuven

Sylvain Moineau, Laval University, Québec

José Penadés, University of Glasgow