EMBARK is starting a webinar series where invited speakers will be presenting their research and be contrasted to EMBARK members presenting the work performed in the project. This will be followed by a discussion and Q&A. All the webinars, except for one, will take place at 14:00 CEST.

Four webinars will take place before the summer break:

• April 28: Gerry Wright – “Approaches to measure and monitor AMR in various environments”
  Luis Pedro Coelho – “Quantifying AMR at very large scales”
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• May 19: Heike Schmitt – “International efforts for One Health surveillance of AMR (WHO Tricycle)”
  Etienne Ruppé – “On the use of Tricycle in EMBARK”
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• June 9: Dearbháile Morris – “What lurks beneath: the role of water in the transmission and persistence of AMR”
  Rabaab Zahra – “E. coli STs and Resistance Mechanisms in Sewage from Islamabad”
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• June 30 **13:00 CEST*: Kimberly Kline – “Pathogenesis and persistence during Enterococcus faecalis biofilm-associated infection”
  Sofia Forslund – High-throughput measurement of host and microbiota
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Here is also a sneak peek at the first webinars of the fall:

• September 1: Amy Pruden – “Towards coordinated local and global surveillance of antibiotic resistance at wastewater treatment plants”
  Thomas Berendonk – “AMR in WWTPs – the European perspective”
• September 22: Gautam Dantas – “Predicting and Combating Biotic and Abiotic Perturbations to Diverse Microbiomes”
  Johan Bengtsson-Palme – “Antibiotic perturbations to interactions in microbial communities”
• October 13: Barry McMahon – “How AMR in wildlife can inform zoonoses research”
  Victor Hugo Jarquin Diaz – “AMR spread in rodents”