Johannes Cairns
@jcairns.bsky.social
📍 Finland | 🧬 Collegium Researcher & PI at UTU utu.fi/meg | Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance & resilience | 🌍 Exploring how science, ethics & systems thinking shape good lives within planetary limits
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Microbial Evolutionary Genetics Lab | meg
We seek quantitative understanding of rapid microbial evolution. This is essential to combat antibiotic resistance and biodiversity loss, which are among th ...
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Building lab (utu.fi/meg/) in Faculty of Medicine, Lund U @lund-university.bsky.social from March (DDLS Fellow; @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social). Seeking postdocs & PhD students in exp evo+AMR+data science. If interested, please get in touch with short intro. Please share with your networks.
Building lab (utu.fi/meg/) in Faculty of Medicine, Lund U @lund-university.bsky.social from March (DDLS Fellow; @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social). Seeking postdocs & PhD students in exp evo+AMR+data science. If interested, please get in touch with short intro. Please share with your networks.
Microbial Evolutionary Genetics Lab | meg
We seek quantitative understanding of rapid microbial evolution. This is essential to combat antibiotic resistance and biodiversity loss, which are among th ...
utu.fi
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Building lab (utu.fi/meg/) in Faculty of Medicine, Lund U @lund-university.bsky.social from March (DDLS Fellow; @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social). Seeking postdocs & PhD students in exp evo+AMR+data science. If interested, please get in touch with short intro. Please share with your networks.
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A four-year postdoc focusing on "plant growth-promoting bacteriophages" available in my group. Skills in metaviromics and metagenomics essential. Application deadline: 2.2.2026. For more info, see the link.
Postdoctoral Researcher in discovering the benefits of plant growth-promoting bacteriophages
Postdoctoral Researcher in discovering the benefits of plant growth-promoting bacteriophages
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December 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A four-year postdoc focusing on "plant growth-promoting bacteriophages" available in my group. Skills in metaviromics and metagenomics essential. Application deadline: 2.2.2026. For more info, see the link.
Proud to announce upcoming PhD defense (Friday 24th October) of my first PhD researcher Florian Borse co-supervised with Prof. Ville Mustonen at @helsinki.fi with @antagomir.bsky.social as opponent. www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-s...
Florian Borse defends his PhD thesis on Modelling Microbial Population Growth Across Spatial, Strain and Environmental Diversity | Faculty of Science | University of Helsinki
On Friday the 24th of October 2025, M.Sc. Florian Borse his PhD thesis on Modelling Microbial Population Growth Across Spatial, Strain and Environmental Diversity. The thesis is related to research do...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Proud to announce upcoming PhD defense (Friday 24th October) of my first PhD researcher Florian Borse co-supervised with Prof. Ville Mustonen at @helsinki.fi with @antagomir.bsky.social as opponent. www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-s...
Massive undertaking with @teppo-h.bsky.social and others out. We studied 4 years (!!!) of synthetic 23 microbial species community evolution with/without antibiotic. Resistance mutations occurring over years led to stepwise restructuring and ultimately recovery of undisturbed community composition.
Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment
Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality, yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain poorly understood. Understanding how Darwinian evoluti...
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October 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Massive undertaking with @teppo-h.bsky.social and others out. We studied 4 years (!!!) of synthetic 23 microbial species community evolution with/without antibiotic. Resistance mutations occurring over years led to stepwise restructuring and ultimately recovery of undisturbed community composition.
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Fully funded PhD position at the university of Turku. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
Doctoral Researcher / Project researcher in Experimental Evolution of Host–Microbiota Interactions
The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for a doctoral researcher / project researcher position at the Department of Biology. The position is fully funded 4-years. Emplo...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Fully funded PhD position at the university of Turku. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
Dr. Anni Hämäläinen from @tcsmtutu.bsky.social is looking for a PhD researcher to @utu.fi co-supervised by me and @teppo-h.bsky.social on experimental evolution of host-microbiota interactions (Drosphila). Please spread the message. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
Doctoral Researcher / Project researcher in Experimental Evolution of Host–Microbiota Interactions
The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for a doctoral researcher / project researcher position at the Department of Biology. The position is fully funded 4-years. Emplo...
ats.talentadore.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Dr. Anni Hämäläinen from @tcsmtutu.bsky.social is looking for a PhD researcher to @utu.fi co-supervised by me and @teppo-h.bsky.social on experimental evolution of host-microbiota interactions (Drosphila). Please spread the message. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Check out our new study on bacterial clade dynamics under ciliate predation
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February 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Check out our new study on bacterial clade dynamics under ciliate predation
Check out our new article in @natureecoevo.bsky.social Research Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We showed that antibiotic pre-exposure of abundant species protected entire communities and metacommunities from change during antibiotic exposure
Pre-exposure to disturbance enhances species resilience and protects from change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In a serial passage experiment with a 23-species model microbial community, we found that higher dispersal led to stronger spread of the effects of antibiotic disturbance across a metacommunity. This ...
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January 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Check out our new article in @natureecoevo.bsky.social Research Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We showed that antibiotic pre-exposure of abundant species protected entire communities and metacommunities from change during antibiotic exposure