Ville Friman
Professor in Microbiology at the University of Helsinki. Guitar in Insomnium. Honorary Fellow at the University of York and Honorary Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University
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- Reposted by Ville FrimanMy team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses. Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important. The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵 🔁 🙏 #microSky #phagesky #UTIsky @cnrs.fr
- Reposted by Ville Friman🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
- 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.
- Reposted by Ville FrimanI just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building. medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanCheck this out for the 2026 SISB (phage defense) meeting in NYC. Mark your calendar! (and note the Zoom option, if needed) sisb2026.rockefeller.edu
- Reposted by Ville Friman🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8
- Reposted by Ville FrimanTwo fully-funded PhD openings in my research group at the University of York. If you’re excited about viromes, phage biology, Nanopore sequencing, soils and the odd bit of alpine or agricultural field sampling, we’d love to hear from you! 🌱🦠🏔️ tiny.cc/c4pv001 tiny.cc/e4pv001
- Reposted by Ville Friman🚨#PhD studentship opportunity! Plasmids provide bacteria with antimicrobial resistance, but do they have more fundamental effects on behaviour? 🧫🦠💫🧟♂️ Apply for a 4y funded MRC DiMeN position with me and Jamie Wheeler @livuni-ives.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Interested in doing a PhD in phage biology? See below a super cool project on megaphage ecology and evolution available at the University of Jyväskylä (FIN) in Elina Laanto's lab (Project no. 4). Co-supervision provided by yours truly.
- 🚀 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
- Reposted by Ville FrimanExciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech. Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
- Reposted by Ville FrimanThe early bird 🐥 registration for the 8th International Bacterial Wilt Symposium has been extended until the 15th of November! To join those who have already registered visit our website 👉https://event.wur.nl/ibws2026
- Reposted by Ville FrimanNew paper with my (amazing) friend and mentor @jrpenades.bsky.social Really looking forward to see what plasmid aficionados think of this one!! With @asantoslopez.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Akshay Sabins and others www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanWe 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...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanThree Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanPhages evolve fast, or do they? In oysters, some stay identical for years. With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements. Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- Reposted by Ville Friman5-years in the making this paper has been a real journey! Also, a fun collaboration with @frimanscience.bsky.social @jofoth.bsky.social Edze Westra, Simon Lovell, Aras Kadioglu #mevosky #phagesky
- Reposted by Ville FrimanI have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
- Reposted by Ville FrimanProfessor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...
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A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3 - Reposted by Ville FrimanWe are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3
- Reposted by Ville FrimanOne week left to submit your abstract to @microbiologysociety.org meeting on “Understanding and Predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics” at Liverpool 26-27 November Lots of spaces for ECR talks and posters! microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
- Reposted by Ville Friman1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Ville Friman🚨 Reminder! You have just over two weeks to submit an abstract, if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org meeting "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" in Liverpool in November! #microsky 🦠🧫🔬
- ‼️Update! Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Liverpool UK @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics”! Deadline July 7th #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanFresh new abstract books are waiting for the #esm2025 congress, which starts in a few days. Don’t forget to follow us from Sunday onwards!
- Great postdoc opportunity available in Zurich!
- We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on pathogen interactions. Please send in your application via jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
- Top two recurring typos with the current grant write-up: 1) Metagnomes 🧌 (Metagenomes) 2) Pants 🩳 (Plants)
- Reposted by Ville Friman🧫🦠🔬🧬 @science.org Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @baptistedarracq.bsky.social @eloilittner.bsky.social @celineloot.bsky.social @epcrocha.bsky.social et al. #microbiology #phage #immunity #phagesky #MicroSky
- This will be an excellent meeting - highly recommended!
- This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanThis meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
- Hope to see lots of interesting Ralstonia research in Wageningen next year!
- Join the ESEB 2025 symposium on bacteria-phage ecology and evolution (S43) with Frédérique Le Roux and Michael Brockhurst as invited speakers. Submit abstracts by April 25, 2025 (eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...). See you in Barcelona, August 17-22, 2025! #phagesky
- Reposted by Ville Friman👂We want to hear all about your work! This is your chance to showcase your research in #EvolutionaryBiology and network with colleagues from all over the world! Select from 51 symposia for your #Abstract: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia/ 👉🏻 Submit Now: eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
- Reposted by Ville FrimanMichael Lin (Stanford) reports his grant on anti-COVID meds was terminated. Pandemics become endemic. Endemic diseases require treatments. Treatments require research. Research requires continuity of support. Continuity of support requires federal funding. But the WH just doesn't get it.
- Reposted by Ville FrimanJob alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanPlease spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phage #bioinformatics
- Reposted by Ville FrimanAwwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut! www.nature.com/nature/volum... We have two papers in this issue: 1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE 2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪
- Reposted by Ville FrimanThere are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
- Reposted by Ville FrimanJoin us at the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM) in the south of France! ☀️ We're looking for a POSTDOC to explore the phageome and plant microbiome, diving into cutting-edge research at the intersection of viromics and microbial ecology. 📆 Deadline: March 15, 2025 @evbc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ville FrimanI'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
- Frankfurt was good fun!
- Hamburg was great as always!
- In non-science news, the Insomnium European tour is running smoothly and we had a great time in Utrecht yesterday. Today we play in 🇩🇪 Oberhausen Turbinehallen - come and see us!
- Great to see this work out with bunch of great colleagues!
- We derive iron-siderophore interaction networks among Pseudomonas strains from sequencing data. One key insight: natural strains form dense networks, whereas pathogens are loners. With @frimanscience.bsky.social @zhiyuanli.bsky.social & Nanjing colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanWe derive iron-siderophore interaction networks among Pseudomonas strains from sequencing data. One key insight: natural strains form dense networks, whereas pathogens are loners. With @frimanscience.bsky.social @zhiyuanli.bsky.social & Nanjing colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanHow 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 🦠 1/8
- Reposted by Ville FrimanDoes resistance evolve within patients? Yeah, but it’s complicated, evidence is piecemeal, and we need to make far better use of clinical trials for quantitative understanding of how & why AMR outcomes vary between patients. Led by @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanFunded PhD studentship (for UK students) developing synthetic phage therapy focusing on eco-evolutionary dynamics with me, Claudia Igler and Patrick Cai. Synthetic genomics / experimental evolution / Pseudomonas 🧫 🫁 🧬 #microsky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanLess than a week left to apply for this RA position ⬇️ AMR evolution in human Pseudomonas airway infections 🧫 🫁 💊 #microsky
- Exciting chance to join our Wellcome Trust collaborative project understanding AMR evolution in human infections! Genomics, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas. Research Assistant 4-days per week for 2-years, deadline 18.03. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky
- Reposted by Ville FrimanBBSRC 2-year PDRA position to work on ecology & evolution of phage therapy with synthetically engineered phages. Part of an exciting multi-university consortium & UK’s Engineering Biology priority. Synthetic genomics; experimental evolution; AMR. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky
- Reposted by Ville FrimanExciting chance to join our Wellcome Trust collaborative project understanding AMR evolution in human infections! Genomics, experimental evolution, Pseudomonas. Research Assistant 4-days per week for 2-years, deadline 18.03. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #microsky
- Reposted by Ville FrimanNew preprint in collaboration with @asantoslopez.bsky.social lab and led by Jorge Sastre. Combining experimental evolution and analyses of longitudinal samples from hospitalised patients, we unveiled a new mechanism of plasmid-mediated evolution beyond HGT 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- The new Helsinki research website is now online. If you are interested in applying for fellowships (e.g. MCSA), please don't hesitate to get in touch!
- Also, we have a related Ph.D. position available at the University of Lund in the lab of @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social @hauryliuk.bsky.social. The deadline for application is the 5th of March.
- Three-year postdoc available on anti-phage defense systems and phage biocontrol of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum at Helsinki (FIN) in collaboration with @hauryliuk.bsky.social and gemmaatkinson.bsky.social. Application deadline 29.2.2024. #phagesky #microsky jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanWe have a 3-year PDRA position available of evolution of symbiosis using RNAi and experimental evolution to understand the mechanisms and architecture of host control in the Paramecium-Chlorella photosymbiosis. Collab with Tom Richards and Dunc Cameron www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanJoin the fun! And stay tuned for a bioinformatics PhD position to work on the same project!
- Three-year postdoc available on anti-phage defense systems and phage biocontrol of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum at Helsinki (FIN) in collaboration with @hauryliuk.bsky.social and gemmaatkinson.bsky.social. Application deadline 29.2.2024. #phagesky #microsky jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- Three-year postdoc available on anti-phage defense systems and phage biocontrol of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum at Helsinki (FIN) in collaboration with @hauryliuk.bsky.social and gemmaatkinson.bsky.social. Application deadline 29.2.2024. #phagesky #microsky jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanOur paper engineering yeast to be phototrophic (gaining energy from light) by chucking a rhodopsin into the vacuole is out in Current Biology. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Reposted by Ville FrimanApplication deadline has been extended until Feb 5th!
- PhD project with me and @frimanscience.bsky.social (MSCA Horizon 2022 UTU-GreDiT). Project #11: “Understanding ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in microbiomes”. Please share with potential candidates. How to apply: sites.utu.fi/utugredit/
- Reposted by Ville FrimanThe deadline for this PD fellowship in 🇪🇸 is approaching! Cris Vieitez and I are open to jointly sponsoring a candidate who's interested in developing new robotic platforms for studying microbial consortia in high throughput. If curious, we welcome inquiries until the end of this week, get in touch!
- New call for postdoc fellowships from the 🇪🇸 govt. My brilliant colleague Cristina Vieitez and I are happy to jointly sponsor candidates who'd like to join us in beautiful Salamanca & develop methods for characterizing and optimizing microbial consortia. More info ⬇️. www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria....
- I will be giving my inaugural professorship lecture today at 2pm Finnish time (in Finnish only). You can stream it here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live...
- Reposted by Ville FrimanFunded 4-year PhD opportunity with me based in St Andrews @SchoolofBiology. One of two projects on mobile genetic elements, antibiotics and defence systems. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share & pass on to anyone interested!
- Excellent day for a wintry walk
- Thank you Novo Nordisk Foundation for funding our research project: "Development of phage biocontrol to overcome the antiphage defence system arsenal of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum bacterium". Together with the University of Lund and @hauryliuk.bsky.social @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social
- Thanks guys !
- Reposted by Ville FrimanLast week to apply for a PhD on climate change and antibiotic resistance with me, Ed Feil, Angus Buckling, and Anne Leonard. We will use lab experiments, modelling and sequencing to look at the mechanisms and processes underpinning the pattern that more resistance is found at higher temperatures...
- If you are interested in doing a PhD (or can recommend a good candidate) we have a funded project available on the topic: “Understanding ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in microbiomes”.
- PhD project with me and @frimanscience.bsky.social (MSCA Horizon 2022 UTU-GreDiT). Project #11: “Understanding ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in microbiomes”. Please share with potential candidates. How to apply: sites.utu.fi/utugredit/
- New paper out! Ralstonia solanacearum rapidly evolves resistance to phages. This is however costly, leading to greatly reduced virulence in planta. T2SS, pilD, and phcS genes involved. Further, when RM and CBASS defense systems are upregulated, some virulence and receptor genes are downregulated.
- Reposted by Ville FrimanTogether with @frimanscience.bsky.social and our Chinese colleagues, we have worked out how to predict (i) siderophore molecular structures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and (ii) siderophore interaction networks in communities www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from sequence data!
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- Nice comment on our recent 'volatile-evolution' paper in the ISME Journal: Microbial volatiles mediate bacterial evolutionary dynamics
- Reposted by Ville FrimanPhD opportunity with me and @ellieevolves studying soil phages with metagenomics and experimental system: findaphd.com/phds/project... Please pass on to anyone currently looking! Great collaborators too w/ @edzewestra @StinekevanHoute @BrionyAJones and Rob Griffiths.
