EMBARK Spring Webinars

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

Last EMBARK webinar this year

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]

Updated day for the December webinar

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]

Updated webinar times

We have two more EMBARK Webinars to go before the end of the year. For the second one with Joakim Larsson we have updated the date to December 14. Make a note in your calendars!

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 14, 14:00 UTC+2
Joakim Larsson – TBA
[Register here]

EMBARK Fall Webinars 2022

Time again for a new round of EMBARK Webinars. This fall we will have four fantastic main speakers, together with a group of excellent junior speakers. Sign up for the webinars today!

Sep 14, 14:00 UTC+2
Jon HobmanAntimicrobial resistance in a UK dairy farm
Kenyum BagraInvasion dynamics of AMR bacteria into microbiomes under stress
[Register here]

Oct 5, 14:00 UTC+2
Stineke van HouteTowards the development of CRISPR-Cas based tools to remove AMR from microbial communities
Ruben Vazquez-UribeCRISPR-Cas antimicrobials: Resistance mechanisms
[Register here]

Nov 9, 14:00 UTC+2
Iruka OkekeGenomic surveillance of human-invasive Salmonella in Nigeria
Miranda WallaceUnderstanding and predicting resistance in Bacteroides fragilis group bacteria using clinical and modern genomics tools
[Register here]

Dec 14, 14:00 UTC+2
Joakim LarssonTBA
[Register here]