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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
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Dec 14, 14:00 UTC+2
Joakim Larsson – TBA
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EMBARK Spring Webinars

We have a very exciting lineup of speakers for the 2022 EMBARK Webinars! Let’s begin with the speakers for the spring. Registration opens today!

March 16: Windi Muziasari – “Global database of ARGs in the environment”
Anna Abramova – “Meta-analysis reveals the global picture of antibiotic resistance gene prevalence across environments”
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April 13: Ramanan Laxminarayan – “State of the World’s Antibiotics 2022”
Cheng Zhao – “Optimizing antimicrobial resistance surveillance in farm animals”
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May 18: Nichole Broderick – “Tiny Earth”
Filipa Grosso – “Implementing citizen-based projects on Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness in Southern Europe: the experience from MicroMundo”
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June 15: Marisa Haenni – “From AMR surveillance to research in the French veterinary sector”
Reshma Silvester – “AMR in aquaculture- Averting the crisis and the way forward”
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And for the fall, we have preliminary confirmation for the following speakers:
Jon Hobman
Stineke van Houte
Iruka Okeke
Joakim Larsson

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EMBARK Webinar Monika Dolejska

We are sad to announce that unfortunately Barry McMahon will not be able to present in this fall’s seminar series due to reasons out of our and his control. However, we are happy to introduce a fantastic replacement speaker – Monika Dolejska – who will give a presentation on October 13, also on the role of wildlife in transmission of AMR. She will be joined by EMBARK’s Victor Hugo Jarquin Diaz, who will talk about AMR spread in rodents. Very exciting topic and we hope all of you will join us on October 13. Register here!

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EMBARK Fall Webinars

The EMBARK webinar series continues in the fall, starting September 1. We already have three confirmed invited speakers who will present 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 (12:00 UTC).

These are the three already scheduled webinars:

  • 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”
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  • September 22: Gautam Dantas – “Predicting and Combating Biotic and Abiotic Perturbations to Diverse Microbiomes”
    Johan Bengtsson-Palme – “Antibiotic perturbations to interactions in microbial communities”
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  • October 13: Monika Dolejska – “Antibiotic resistance is going wild”
    Victor Hugo Jarquin Diaz – “AMR spread in rodents”
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  • November 10: Michael Baym – “Exploring non-anthropic selective pressures on antibiotic resistance”
    Uli Klümper – TBA
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  • November 24: Nikolina Udikovic Kolic – “Pharmaceutical waste and antimicrobial resistance”
    Ulrike Löber – “Drugs as antidotes – How drugs affect the damage on gut commensals under antibiotics course“
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  • December 15: Willem van Schaik – “Metagenomic approaches to understand the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in microbial ecosystems”
    Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic – “Exploring the global resistome using the global microbial gene catalog”
    [Register]