Phage Biology Group

Overview

Core fields of research

Basic natural phenomena and mathematical thinking

Faculty

Faculty of Mathematics and Science

Department

Department of Biological and Environmental Science

Research group description

We study phage biology using mainly freshwater phage-host systems as models. We are especially interested in megaphages which are larger and have genomes over ten times longer than the so-called typical phages. Our study interests include phage characteristics, phage-host interactions and phage competition.

Current

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Elina Laanto

Assistant Professor

Members

Karyna Karneyeva

Postdoctoral Researcher

Meeri Niemi

Doctoral Researcher

Publications

Publications

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Prophages and Past Prophage-Host Interactions Revealed by CRISPR Spacer Content in a Fish Pathogen

Microorganisms.

Laanto, Elina

Ravantti, Janne J.

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

Aquaculture as a source of empirical evidence for coevolution between CRISPR-Cas and phage

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Hoikkala, Ville

De Freitas Almeida, Gabriel

Laanto, Elina

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

Bacteriophage Adherence to Mucus Mediates Preventive Protection against Pathogenic Bacteria

mBio.

Almeida, Gabriel M. F.

Laanto, Elina

Ashrafi, Roghaleh

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

Complete Genome Sequence of Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium columnare Strain B185, Originating from Finland

Microbiology Resource Announcements.

Ravantti, Janne J.

Laanto, Elina

Papponen, Petri

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

The Fate of Bacteriophages in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) : Towards Developing Phage Therapy for RAS

Antibiotics.

Almeida, Gabriel M. F..

Mäkelä, Kati

Laanto, Elina

Pulkkinen, Jani

Vielma, Jouni

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2019

Available through Open Access

Viruses : the invisible majority of the oceans

Microbiology Today.

Laanto, Elina

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Complete Genome Sequence of an Aquaculture-Associated Phage, FL-1, Infecting Flavobacterium spp.

Genome Anouncements.

Laanto, Elina

Ravantti, Janne J.

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Imaging Bacterial Colonies and Phage-Bacterium Interaction at Sub-Nanometer Resolution Using Helium-Ion Microscopy

Advanced Biosystems.

Leppänen, Miika

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Laanto, Elina

De Freitas Almeida, Gabriel

Papponen, Petri

Maasilta, Ilari

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Long-term genomic coevolution of host-parasite interaction in the natural environment

Nature Communications.

Laanto, Elina

Hoikkala, Ville

Ravantti, Janne

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2017

Available through Open Access

Virus found in a boreal lake links ssDNA and dsDNA viruses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Laanto, Elina

Mäntynen, Sari

De Colibus, Luigi

Marjakangas, Jenni

Gillum, Ashley

Stuart, David I.

Ravantti, Janne

Huiskonen, Juha T.

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Publication

2016

Available through Open Access

Intensive aquaculture selects for increased virulence and interference competition in bacteria

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Sundberg, Lotta-Riina

Ketola, Tarmo

Laanto, Elina

Kinnula, Hanna

Bamford, Jaana

Penttinen, Reetta

Mappes, Johanna

Publication

2015

Available through Open Access

Luonnon omat nanokoneet apuna bakteeritautien hoidossa

Sic!

Laanto, Elina

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