Intended as a successor to the regular meeting held by the Phage Group at the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, the first West Coast T4 meeting was held at the Evergreen Bacteriophage Lab in 1975. This later developed into the biennial Evergreen International Phage Biology meetings. These meetings draw hundreds of participants from all over the world. Much like Kutter's work more generally, their early incarnations were focused on T4 phage, and they later expanded to be about phage research more broadly. The most recent meeting was held in 2021.
