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Glad to give a talk in Microbiology Society meeting 'Understanding and predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics' in Manchester this November. Sign up here: -------------------------------------------- Thanks for the opportunity to give a talk in Bacteriophages meeting in Oxford! 
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Very happy to be invited to give a talk at ISME 18 meeting in Lausanne in the 'Drivers of Microbial invasion success' session 
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Great to see our story on how soil moisture can drive R. solanacearum infections on the cover of Soil Ecology Letters 
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I would like to thank DMS for inviting me to give a talk at their annual meeting in 2021 - FEMS also did an interview about phage therapy, which you can check below: ---------------------------------------------- I'll be presenting phage work from the lab in two meetings in November: Association of Applied Biologist meeting: Thinking differently about soil-borne Disease Management (10.11.2021) Danish Microbiology Society Annual Congress (15.11.2021) 
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Paper out in Nature Biotechnology: Phage therapy for Tomato wilt 
Me and Daniel Jeffares will be guest editing a special issue in MDPI Pathogens entitled: "Ecology, Evolution and genomics of R. solanacearum plant pathogenic bacterium". Information and instructions how to submit a manuscript available HERE!
Thanks for everyone who came to listen my talk in ESEB 2019 symposium 24: 'Microbial evolution under biotic stress'
Thank you for visiting our symposium 'Microbial Evolution in Complex Environments' and thanks for our
Invited speakers Jo Fothergill and Angus Buckling for great presentations! 
Thank you for coming to listen my talk in Ireland 
Thank you for visiting our symposium 13: Pathogen evolution during chronic infections. See you in ESEB 2019!
Read our opinion piece about phage therapy here:
Silk route to the acceptance and re-implementation of phage therapy 
Read my blog about phage therapy @ Conversation:
Soviet-era treatment could be the new weapon in the war against antibiotic resistance |
News!
Friman lab has relocated to university of Helsinki, Finland! If you are interested in the ecology and evolution of microbiomes and thinking about applying for fellowships, please get in touch at ville-petri.friman@helsinki.fi.
Friman lab: We are interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics of species interactions in multi-trophic communities. We are specifically focused on plant rhizosphere and human lung microbiomes and how interactions within these microbial communities affect the fitness and survival of associated host organisms. Elucidating these processes is especially important for understanding bacterial disease dynamics in agricultural and medical contexts and developing new ways to control infections. Moreover, we are interested in how the rapid evolution of species interactions might feedback and change the composition, stability and the functioning of microbial ecosystems. We use two main study systems in our research. First, we use model cystic fibrosis lung microbiome to focus on understanding how the evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterial pathogen is shaped by sub-inhibitory antibiotic concentrations, other co-occurring bacteria and lytic phages. Second, we use a tomato rhizosphere microbiome model to study bacteria-phage-plant interactions in soil focusing on Ralstonia solanacearum plant pathogenic bacterium (a causative agent of bacterial wilt disease). We combine experimental evolution with environmental and clinical sampling, field and greenhouse experiments, genome sequencing and bioinformatic analysis and work with various microbes including bacteria, phages, protists. Our main interests include
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Dr Ville-Petri Friman Professor in Microbiology Department of Microbiology Biocenter 1, Viikinkaari 9 University of Helsinki 00790 Finland Helsinki home page e-mail: ville-petri.friman(at)helsinki.fi or vifriman(at)gmail.com ville.friman(at)york.ac.uk Tel: +358 (0)50 452 0319 
Other affiliations:
Honorary Guest Professor Nanjing Agricultural University China 
Honorary Fellow Department of Biology University of York UK 
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