News - Van Houte Lab

November 25th, 2025 at the Spine Building in Liverpool Rising levels of antimicrobial resistance threaten healthcare systems and economies worldwide. Phage therapy has proven to be an effective last-resort treatment...

We had a fun and productive time at year’s lab retreat at the Budock Vean hotel with the Westra lab! Despite the rainy weather and golfers getting soaked outside the window,...

Stineke van Houte is one of the organizers for the upcoming Royal Society Meeting in London on the ecology and evolution of microbial immune systems, 30 Sept – 01 Oct...

Our lab retreat in collaboration with the Westra lab at the Budock Vean hotel in Mawnan Smith was a great success! It was a wonderful chance to catch up on...

Due to the COVID pandemic we had to organise the 2021 edition of the annual CRISPR meeting online. Although it was such a shame not to be able to catch...

Stineke recently wrote a review for Cell Host & Microbe together with the Westra lab and Raymond Staals & Jurre Steens from Wageningen University on phage-CRISPR co-evolutionary interactions. 

From the 6th-8th of June, we were active at the Royal Cornwall Show with an activity stand teaching families about bacteria, phages, and antibiotic resistance. David and Ellie teamed up...

July 2018 – AccessLab David took part in this event, set up by FoAM Kernow in collaboration with NERC and the British Science Association. By pairing researchers with members of the public,...