Kim Kreuze
@kkreuze.bsky.social
PhD student studying Infant gut phages | Vatanen & Friman labs University of Helsinki | Viral dark matter | phage-host interactions | MGE competition | microbial ecology
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Kim Kreuze
@kkreuze.bsky.social
· Nov 13
How do mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like phages, plasmids and phage-plasmids shape the gut microbiome - and could they be hidden influencers for infant health?👀 Check out our new perspective article with @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen on this very topic! #microbiome #phagesky 🦠
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🚀 PhD opportunity
The Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 1–4 new PhD candidates.
One of the positions is potentially in my lab, focusing on megaphages and their hosts.
Details and apply here 👇
bit.ly/48eqYNB
#phage
The Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 1–4 new PhD candidates.
One of the positions is potentially in my lab, focusing on megaphages and their hosts.
Details and apply here 👇
bit.ly/48eqYNB
#phage
Doctoral Researcher positions, Biological and Environmental Sciences
The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences is seeking applicants for 1–4 fully funded doctoral researcher positions. The positions will begin on August 1, 2026, or as agreed, for a maximu...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🚀 PhD opportunity
The Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 1–4 new PhD candidates.
One of the positions is potentially in my lab, focusing on megaphages and their hosts.
Details and apply here 👇
bit.ly/48eqYNB
#phage
The Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 1–4 new PhD candidates.
One of the positions is potentially in my lab, focusing on megaphages and their hosts.
Details and apply here 👇
bit.ly/48eqYNB
#phage
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Awesome #phage #bioinformatics preprint from @shelbyeandersen.bsky.social, who is also very close to finishing her PhD and on the lookout for her next position 👀
Serine recombinases are conserved genetic markers of antiphage defense systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.681051v1
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Awesome #phage #bioinformatics preprint from @shelbyeandersen.bsky.social, who is also very close to finishing her PhD and on the lookout for her next position 👀
Reposted by Kim Kreuze
We studied how exogenous mucins influence phage-bacterium interplay in human epithelial cells. This work is now available in BiorXiv
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Mucin-enriched environment shapes bacteriophage protection against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in airway epithelial cells
Mucin hypersecretion, a hallmark of chronic respiratory diseases (CRD), creates a complex microenvironment that reshapes host immunity and microbial behavior. However, its impact on bacteriophage ther...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We studied how exogenous mucins influence phage-bacterium interplay in human epithelial cells. This work is now available in BiorXiv
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Presenting a poster at #EESMICROBIOLOGY today. Come by to talk about #jumbophage s at poster 204!
#phage #phagesky
#phage #phagesky
June 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Presenting a poster at #EESMICROBIOLOGY today. Come by to talk about #jumbophage s at poster 204!
#phage #phagesky
#phage #phagesky
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Great to see Lara Ambrosio Leal Dutra representing CANS and presenting her excellent work on bacteriophages during The Danish Viruses of Microbes symposium in Copenhagen! 😀
June 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Great to see Lara Ambrosio Leal Dutra representing CANS and presenting her excellent work on bacteriophages during The Danish Viruses of Microbes symposium in Copenhagen! 😀
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Are there virulent phages hiding in your bacterial culture? Here we find hundreds of virulent phage genomes in bacterial genome assemblies. Bioinformatic and experimental evidence indicate these are not contaminations, but represent persistent infections.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Persistent virulent phages exist in bacterial isolates
Despite the immense diversity of tailed bacteriophages, they are traditionally classified as either virulent or temperate, with only the latter thought capable of long-term persistence in bacterial ce...
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January 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Are there virulent phages hiding in your bacterial culture? Here we find hundreds of virulent phage genomes in bacterial genome assemblies. Bioinformatic and experimental evidence indicate these are not contaminations, but represent persistent infections.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🧪 Very sad news from the field of #PlantVirology. Jari Valkonen, Professor and Chair of Plant Pathology at University of Helsinki, passed away this weekend. He contributed greatly to field of Potyviruses and how viruses overcome plant resistance. Moreover, was such a nice person. He will be missed
December 16, 2024 at 6:18 PM
🧪 Very sad news from the field of #PlantVirology. Jari Valkonen, Professor and Chair of Plant Pathology at University of Helsinki, passed away this weekend. He contributed greatly to field of Potyviruses and how viruses overcome plant resistance. Moreover, was such a nice person. He will be missed
Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web.
🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev
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🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev
📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
November 24, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @sianowen.bsky.social, @baym.lol, @nquinoneso.bsky.social, and our two talented undergrads Kesther and Carmen!
Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624878v1
Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624878v1
Phages interact with many components of bacterial physiology from the surface to the cytoplasm. Alth
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November 23, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @sianowen.bsky.social, @baym.lol, @nquinoneso.bsky.social, and our two talented undergrads Kesther and Carmen!
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there is a new #giantvirus in town! and it speaks Finnish! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genomic and structural insights into Jyvaskylavirus, the first giant virus isolated from Finland
Giant viruses of protists are a diverse and likely ubiquitous group of organisms. Here, we describe Jyvaskylavirus, the first giant virus isolated from Finland. This clade B marseillevirus was found i...
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November 5, 2024 at 2:55 PM
there is a new #giantvirus in town! and it speaks Finnish! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A collection of researchers working on bacterial defense and offense systems, including secretion systems, immunity mechanisms, bacterial warfare, and microbial arms races. Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed) from the list.
November 12, 2024 at 10:33 PM
A collection of researchers working on bacterial defense and offense systems, including secretion systems, immunity mechanisms, bacterial warfare, and microbial arms races. Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed) from the list.
How do mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like phages, plasmids and phage-plasmids shape the gut microbiome - and could they be hidden influencers for infant health?👀 Check out our new perspective article with @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen on this very topic! #microbiome #phagesky 🦠
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November 13, 2024 at 11:22 AM
How do mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like phages, plasmids and phage-plasmids shape the gut microbiome - and could they be hidden influencers for infant health?👀 Check out our new perspective article with @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen on this very topic! #microbiome #phagesky 🦠
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Reposted by Kim Kreuze
Nice work by an excellent PhD student from our department, @kkreuze.bsky.social w/ @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen
Mobile genetic elements: the hidden puppet masters underlying infant gut microbiome assembly?
Mobile genetic elements: the hidden puppet masters underlying infant gut microbiome assembly?
The gut microbiota is important for healthy infant development. Part of the initial colonizing microbial strains originate from the maternal gut, and undergo a selective event, termed the “colonizatio...
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November 12, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Nice work by an excellent PhD student from our department, @kkreuze.bsky.social w/ @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen
Reposted by Kim Kreuze
Should I stay or should I go? 🎵
In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Our framework sheds light on many aspects of MGE biology (1/7)
In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Our framework sheds light on many aspects of MGE biology (1/7)
Should I stay or should I go: Transmission trade-offs in mobile genetic elements
ecoevorxiv.org
October 22, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Should I stay or should I go? 🎵
In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Our framework sheds light on many aspects of MGE biology (1/7)
In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Our framework sheds light on many aspects of MGE biology (1/7)
Reposted by Kim Kreuze
Our latest on phage-plasmids(PP) is out! Two main findings. PP recombine more with (other) plasmids and phages than the latter, thereby connecting them. PP can become just phages or plasmids, which may then transition to be conjugative. All the world’s an MGE! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 21, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Our latest on phage-plasmids(PP) is out! Two main findings. PP recombine more with (other) plasmids and phages than the latter, thereby connecting them. PP can become just phages or plasmids, which may then transition to be conjugative. All the world’s an MGE! www.nature.com/articles/s41...