People

Principal Investigator

Johannes Cairns, PhD

I am Collegium Researcher / Group Leader at the Turku Collegium for Science, Medicine and Technology, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Turku, and affiliated with the Finnish Multidisciplinary Center of Excellence in Antimicrobial Resistance Research (FIMAR). Our research uses the powerful combination of laboratory guided evolutionary experiments, genetic engineering and bioinformatics to understand the effect of rapid evolution on antibiotic resistance and community resilience in synthetic communities. The cross-disciplinary work in my group involves close collaboration with experimentalists, molecular biologists and computational biologists. If you are interested in joining the group, feel free to contact me at johannes.cairns at utu.fi.

Postdocs

Anna Bischofberger, PhD

I am a post-doctoral researcher with an SNF Postdoc mobility fellowship, affiliated with the experimental evolution and microbial genetics groups at the University of Turku. I am interested in the assembly, temporal dynamics, and resilience of multi-species microbial communities. In my current work, I use both experimental and computational approaches to investigate how complex communities react when exposed to environmental stressors, particularly resource scarcity and antimicrobial substances.

PhD researchers

Inga-Katariina Aapalampi, MSc

I am a doctoral researcher at the Department of Biology, University of Turku. I am interested in how different stressors affect bacterial communities. Also, I am particularly interested in studying the development of antibiotic resistance and eco-evolutionary dynamics in multispecies communities.