Lotta-Riina Sundberg
@lrsundberg.bsky.social
Pathogenic and environmental bacteria and their phages, evolution of pathogenicity, phage resistance, mucosal environment. Professor in Univ. Jyvaskyla, Finland.
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...
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...
Reposted by Lotta-Riina Sundberg
Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you.
Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.
Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.
Finland invests in research excellence – new funding call by Research Council of Finland to support recruitment of international talents
The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has launched a funding call to improve universities’ ability to recruit international experts to Finland. In line with the RCF’s strategy, the call wi...
www.aka.fi
April 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you.
Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.
Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.
Reposted by Lotta-Riina Sundberg
It is not everyday that we can name a virus after a city! Long effort finally out now, adding Finland to the giant virus map. On top of this, in-depth structural data. Thanks @lrsundberg.bsky.social @abrescialab.bsky.social et al.
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
@cansuit.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
@cansuit.bsky.social
Genomic and structural insights into Jyvaskylavirus, the first giant virus isolated from Finland
Jyvaskylavirus, the northernmost isolate of the Marseilleviridae family, shows that giant viruses are also part of the boreal Finnish environment and brings structural information with relevance for u...
elifesciences.org
March 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It is not everyday that we can name a virus after a city! Long effort finally out now, adding Finland to the giant virus map. On top of this, in-depth structural data. Thanks @lrsundberg.bsky.social @abrescialab.bsky.social et al.
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
@cansuit.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
@cansuit.bsky.social
Reposted by Lotta-Riina Sundberg
A postdoctoral position is available in my lab at the CIC bioGUNE (Bilbao, Spain) to work on virus-host interactions using state-of-the-art cryoEM.
The position is for a 3-year term.
Preferred start date: 1 March 2025.
For informal enquiries, please contact me: nabrescia@cicbiogune.es
The position is for a 3-year term.
Preferred start date: 1 March 2025.
For informal enquiries, please contact me: nabrescia@cicbiogune.es
January 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A postdoctoral position is available in my lab at the CIC bioGUNE (Bilbao, Spain) to work on virus-host interactions using state-of-the-art cryoEM.
The position is for a 3-year term.
Preferred start date: 1 March 2025.
For informal enquiries, please contact me: nabrescia@cicbiogune.es
The position is for a 3-year term.
Preferred start date: 1 March 2025.
For informal enquiries, please contact me: nabrescia@cicbiogune.es
A question for the #phage community! Where would you publish a ”genome announcement” of a phage isolate? Microbial Resource Announcement is not an option due to Finnish classification system of scientific journals julkaisufoorumi.fi/en
Would love to hear your suggestions!
Would love to hear your suggestions!
Julkaisufoorumi
julkaisufoorumi.fi
January 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A question for the #phage community! Where would you publish a ”genome announcement” of a phage isolate? Microbial Resource Announcement is not an option due to Finnish classification system of scientific journals julkaisufoorumi.fi/en
Would love to hear your suggestions!
Would love to hear your suggestions!
Reposted by Lotta-Riina Sundberg
First paper on a collaboration between the @cansuit.bsky.social of the UiT (Norway) and the UNIFAL (Brazil). This paper strengthens mucosal adaptations as the reason why prophylactic phage therapy works and also is symbolic in the revival of phage research in Brazil.
rdcu.be/d5rhE
rdcu.be/d5rhE
Mucosal-adapted bacteriophages as a preventive strategy for a lethal Pseudomonas aeruginosa challenge in mice
Communications Biology - Phage VAC3 adaptations to the mucosal environment (improved replication in mucin-treated hosts and retention in the respiratory tract) are mechanisms that can exploited as...
rdcu.be
January 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
First paper on a collaboration between the @cansuit.bsky.social of the UiT (Norway) and the UNIFAL (Brazil). This paper strengthens mucosal adaptations as the reason why prophylactic phage therapy works and also is symbolic in the revival of phage research in Brazil.
rdcu.be/d5rhE
rdcu.be/d5rhE
Reposted by Lotta-Riina Sundberg
The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) is hiring 10 new researchers as a part of the postdoctoral programme of Finnish research institutes. There is till time to apply for the first 6 positions! Please apply by 25.11.2024: www.syke.fi/en-US/conten... #recruitement #postdoc #rekry
November 21, 2024 at 7:42 AM
The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) is hiring 10 new researchers as a part of the postdoctoral programme of Finnish research institutes. There is till time to apply for the first 6 positions! Please apply by 25.11.2024: www.syke.fi/en-US/conten... #recruitement #postdoc #rekry
Reposted by Lotta-Riina Sundberg
Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group!
1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 24, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group!
1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Lotta-Riina Sundberg
Hello new phage phollowers!
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition
The ubiquity of bacteriophages (phages) and the major evolutionary and ecological
impacts they can have on their microbial hosts has resulted in phages often cited
as key drivers shaping microbial com...
www.cell.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Hello new phage phollowers!
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition"
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
20th Nanoscience Days conference registration is open until Sept 22!
Our honorary speaker is the Nobel Prize winner Prof Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Check other distinguished speakers from our website.
See you in Jyväskylä 8th-9th October!
www.jyu.fi/en/events/na...
Our honorary speaker is the Nobel Prize winner Prof Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Check other distinguished speakers from our website.
See you in Jyväskylä 8th-9th October!
www.jyu.fi/en/events/na...
Nanoscience Days 2024
NANOSCIENCE DAYS - Annual two-day conference on interdisciplinary nanoscience. 20 year anniversary event!
www.jyu.fi
September 9, 2024 at 10:06 AM
20th Nanoscience Days conference registration is open until Sept 22!
Our honorary speaker is the Nobel Prize winner Prof Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Check other distinguished speakers from our website.
See you in Jyväskylä 8th-9th October!
www.jyu.fi/en/events/na...
Our honorary speaker is the Nobel Prize winner Prof Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Check other distinguished speakers from our website.
See you in Jyväskylä 8th-9th October!
www.jyu.fi/en/events/na...