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| Oct 10, 2026 | Johannes Cairns discusses controlled evolution experiments, data-driven approaches to life science, the predictability and control of evolution, and strategies to tackle antimicrobial resistance. The conversation also covers upcoming research on polymicrobial urinary tract infections. The interview is part of the AMR Podcast Series with Surajit Pal, hosted by the Kiel University Graduate Center. |
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| Oct 09, 2026 | Our lab received SEK 300,000 from Anna och Edwin Bergers Stiftelse to support experimental research on polymicrobial catheter-associated urinary tract infections. |
| Oct 06, 2026 | Johannes participated as an invited panelist in Lund University Future Faculty’s seminar ‘Becoming a Group Leader: Practical Challenges and Beyond,’ discussing leadership, recruitment, group dynamics, and conflict management. |
| Oct 01, 2026 | Victor has joined the lab as a bioinformatician. He will be analysing various high-throughput sequence data modalities to understand eco-evolutionary processes in experimental microbial communities. Warm welcome! |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Our new paper, Eco-evolutionary dynamics and environmental detoxification jointly shape bacterial community response to antibiotic perturbation is now available as an advance article in The ISME Journal. We show how resistance evolution and antibiotic detoxification interact to shape bacterial community responses to repeated antibiotic disturbance. |
| Sep 04, 2026 | New preprint! In our new study, we investigate how far microbial monocultures can predict growth in multi-strain communities. |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Lamia has joined the lab to carry out her Master’s thesis on the evolution of antibiotic resistance and biofilm formation in a polymicrobial cather-associated urinary tract infection model. Welcome to the lab, Lamia! |
| Aug 01, 2026 | Welcome, Xhilda! She joins the MEG Lab as a Project Assistant, working on microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, and developing an in vitro model for polymicrobial urinary tract infections. |
| Jun 09, 2026 | New funding: Our lab has received SEK 1,000,000 from the Crafoord Foundation for the project CompESBL, which investigates competitive dynamics and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance plasmids between ESBL-producing and commensal Escherichia coli. |
| May 30, 2026 | New ISME Communications study out: we found that total carbon availability, rather than resource complexity, is the primary factor shaping community state shifts in a synthetic microbial community. |
| May 28, 2026 | New PNAS study out: we used a long-term synthetic microbial community experiment to show that evolution can drive major shifts in microbial community structure over time. |
| May 19, 2026 | Leo is joining us for a research group internship to setup a polymicrobial urinary tract infection model system. Welcome! Johannes is attending the DDLS Fellows Retreat in Epidemiology and Infection Biology in Norrköping on 19-20 May and presenting a flash talk in the PALS Conference 2026 held 20-22 May in Kolmården. A new pre-print is out on how eco-evolutionary dynamics and antibiotic detoxification interactively determine community antibiotic response. |
| Apr 07, 2026 | Johannes is speaking at the Infect@LU Day on 7 April in Lund and at the SFM Days on 14 April in Gothenburg. |
| Mar 04, 2026 | New: Preprint on ecological tristability in synthetic microbial communities on bioRxiv; and a paper on bacterial clade dynamics under predation accepted in Evolution (preprint). |
| Mar 01, 2026 | Johannes was appointed Assistant Professor (DDLS Fellow) at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, and SciLifeLab. Here is his interview on the appointment at Lund. |
| Jan 10, 2026 | Aava is joining the MEG Lab to implement high-resolution lineage tracking in synthetic community members as her MSc thesis project. Welcome! |
| Oct 09, 2025 | Inga-Katariina received a doctoral research grant from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. Congratulations! |
| Jan 01, 2025 | Johannes was appointed Collegium Researcher at the Turku Collegium for Science, Medicine and Technology. |
| May 23, 2024 | Inga-Katariina received a doctoral research grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Congratulations! |