Shane Hogle, Ph.D.

I am an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Turku, funded by the Research Council of Finland. I am also an affiliated researcher with the FIMAR Centre of Excellence. Previously I was a postdoctoral researcher with Teppo Hiltunen at the University of Turku and before that a postdoctoral researcher with Penny Chisholm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. I received my Ph.D. in Oceanography with a focus on marine chemistry and microbial oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (USA), where I was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. I completed my undergraduate bachelor's degree in Chemistry at Earlham College (USA). I am originally from the United States but live in Turku, Finland, with my family.

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Amanda Silvennoinen

Microbial communities are essential for human and environmental health. I am especially interested in the human gut microbiome , how microbial communities are affected by disturbance (e.g., antibiotics), and their ability to recover. In my Ph.D. I focus on how species interactions, predation, and antibiotics shape community composition. As a model system, I use synthetic microbial communities consisting of different bacterial species and predatory ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. I am currently working on determining how evolutionary history and environment affect resilience, community composition, and evolution of antibiotic resistance by doing simple microcosm experiments.

Iina Nieminen

I am studying how ecological interactions (species interactions and environmental variation)in the outside-host environment affect host-pathogen interactions. Microbial ecology, different microbial communities, and environmental issues interest me. My Ph.D. focuses on eco-evolutionary dynamics and the role of opportunistic pathogens in microbial communities. I use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (host/predator) and bacteria as a model system.