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Glad to give a talk in Microbiology Society meeting 'Understanding and predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics' in Manchester this November.

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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:







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Several PhD opportunities available! Find our more information behind 'Lab group' tab or via find PhD. Deadlines 7.1, 14.1 or 28.2.2022

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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
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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!
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Thanks for everyone who came to listen my talk in ESEB 2019 symposium 24: 'Microbial evolution under biotic stress'
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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!

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​​Thank you for coming to listen my talk in Ireland
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Thank you for visiting our symposium 13: Pathogen evolution during chronic infections. See you in ESEB 2019!
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Read our opinion piece about phage therapy here:
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 Silk route to the acceptance and re-implementation of phage therapy

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Read my blog about phage therapy @ Conversation:

Soviet-era treatment could be the new weapon in the war against antibiotic resistance

News!

Friman lab is moving! Happy to announce that I will be starting as a full professor in Microbiology at the University of Helsinki in January 2023. If you are interested in the ecology and evolution of microbiomes and thinking about applying for fellowships, you can 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

  • Using ecological and evolutionary theory to engineer rhizosphere microbiomes in agriculture
  • Phage therapy in clinical and agricultural contexts
  • Evolution of pathogen virulence
  • Antibiotic resistance evolution in microbial communities
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics of species interactions in microbiomes
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Evolutionary Microbiology
Department of Biology (L012)
University of York
ville.friman(at)york.ac.uk
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​Honorary Guest Professor
Nanjing Agricultural University
​China
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