The Luis Pedro Coelho lab is moving to the Centre for Microbiome Research in Brisbane in Australia and is looking for two PhD students. If you are interested, please check out the official job announcement here!
The EMBARK webinars are back for the spring season. This year we have an exciting lineup with representatives from other JPIAMR programs joining forces with speakers from this program. For the spring, we welcome Sabrina Giebner, Andrew Stubbs and Frank van Leth who will share the stage with Thomas Berendonk, Luis Pedro Coelho and Johan Bengtsson-Palme from EMBARK. The first webinar is already next week!
April 19, 14:00 CEST
Topic: AMR Surveillance in aquatic environments
Sabrina Giebner (AquaticPollutantsTransNet)
EMBARK speaker: Thomas Berendonk
Moderator: Uli Klümper
Aim of AquaticPollutantsTransNet: Improve stakeholders’ & citizens’ perception through active involvement in the reduction of aquatic pollutants in the water cycle
Registration link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h8-CkMMeQpixgDQ8Jtz7Dg
May 17, 14:00 CEST
Topic: ARG annotation
Andrew Stubbs (Seq4AMR)
EMBARK speaker: Luis Pedro Coelho
Moderator: Svetlana Ugarčina Perović
Aim of Seq4AMR: Establish a strategy to link AMR NGS stakeholders and individual fields of NGS technologies, algorithms, quality standards, teaching/training and sequence databanks
Registration link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L7QmrDM5Rn2sWRnC7FnhVQ
June 14, 14:00 CEST
Topic: Strategies for AMR surveillance with an One Health approach
Frank van Leth (OASIS)
EMBARK speaker: Johan Bengtsson-Palme
Moderator: Anna Abramova
Aim of OASIS: Optimise the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) approach as a rapid, domain-, and setting-appropriate AMR surveillance strategy, within a One Health context
Registration link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-XjYy26RTlWyWLWMFagyOw
Time flies and it is time for the last EMBARK webinar of 2022. This month, we are pleased to have Joakim Larsson talk about the environment’s role antibiotic resistance and Antti Karkman present hosts of antibiotic resistance genes in urban sewage. Welcome on Thursday December 15! Registration link below.
Dec 15, 14:00 UTC+2
Joakim Larsson – On the environment’s role in evolution, transmission and surveillance of antibiotic resistance
Antti V. Karkman – Host and vehicles of antibiotic resistance genes in urban sewage
[Register here]
EMBARK coordinator Johan Bengtsson-Palme has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Einhorn SIGHT award. The award, which is granted by the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation and the Einhorn Family Foundation, recognizes outstanding global health research work by young researchers in the context of low- and middle-income countries. Johan was selected motivated by “outstanding research and development of tools to limit the global challenge of infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance”. Largely, these results have come out of the work performed in the EMBARK program.
We unfortunately had to again reschedule the webinar with Joakim Larsson, this time to December 15 (same time).
The two remaining webinars this year will be:
Nov 9, 14:00 UTC+2
Iruka Okeke – Genomic surveillance of human-invasive Salmonella in Nigeria
Miranda Wallace – Understanding and predicting resistance in Bacteroides fragilis group bacteria using clinical and modern genomics tools
[Register here]
Dec 15, 14:00 UTC+2
Joakim Larsson – TBA
[Register here]