Resistomap Webinar: Antibiotic Resistance in Agroecosystems
About
To celebrate this year’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Resistomap is organizing a series of live webinars from August to November 2020. This webinar series aims to improve public awareness and understanding of antibiotic resistance and its environmental impact.
In the October webinar, our speakers will discuss the topic of antibiotic resistance in agroecosystems.
More details: https://resistomap.com/webinar-series-october
When
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 · 5:00 p.m.
Helsinki (GMT +2:00)
Agenda
Ideas how profiling antimicrobial resistance in production animal farms could help in reducing the prevalence of drug resistant bacterial pathogens (Johanna Muurinen, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Assessing the Resistome of a Sheep farm: A sewage-sludge experimental model (Nuno Silva, Moredun Research Institute, Scotland)
Presenters
Resistomap
Johanna Muurinen
Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
Nuno Silva
Senior researcher, Moredun Research Institute, Scotland, UK