Jeremy J Barr

@JeremyJBarr

Bacteriophage biologist and enthusiast. Associate Professor at School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.

Melbourne, Victoria thebarrlab.org Joined May 2013

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Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr Oct 15, 2025

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s4158…

PhD graduate and now post-doc @SofiaDahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson, and lab members @SubDinesh

www.nature.com Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut Nature - Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.

Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr Sep 24, 2025

Excited to announce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi @SubDinesh and is out today in Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol

nature.com/articles/s4156…

www.nature.com Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex... Nature Microbiology - The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.

Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr Apr 15, 2025

The T-series bacteriophages have impacted my career and are microbes our lab's research continues to use as model organisms.

You can read more as part of @NatureMicrobiol 'Microbes Matter' series below:

nature.com/articles/s4156…

Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr Feb 17, 2025

Our lab was featured on the RRR Radio show @einstein_agogo to talk about recent phage research and its application to treat antibiotic-resistant infections

Have a listen!
rrr.org.au/explore/progra…

@NandoGordillo Natasha Smith @DrShaneRRR

Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr Nov 4, 2024

Nature News piece on the hidden players of the gut microbiome (hint, they're phages, of course)

“Our virome is hugely abundant and incredibly diverse, and we’ve looked at just a tiny percentage,”

nature.com/articles/d4158…

www.nature.com Hidden players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome Nature - Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets.