JPIAMR 14th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: International Iberian nanotechnology laboratory
• Country: Portugal (PT)

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Optimisation of drug/plant protection agent combinations, alone or with adjunct therapies (including therapeutic vaccines)
  2. Design and implementation of new strategies (including optimisation of drug doses) for improved application, efficacy and delivery of single or combinations of antimicrobials
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Animal Health (including wild-life, livestock, fishes, and companion animals) Plants (including trees and crops)

• Type of studies/experimental approaches:

  in silico, in vitro, in vivo

• Keywords:

  Bacteriophages; biofilms; genome assembly and annotation; comparative genomics; AMR

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  > 20 years of expertise in bacteriophages (e.g., isolation, thorough characterization including genome sequencing, assembly, and comparative genomics) and their use against different multidrug-resistant pathogens, bacterial biofilms and ways to inhibit and control their formation, in vitro and ex vivo biofilm models and bacteriophage encapsulation in biopolymer materials (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6508101100).

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Projects that involve the use of bacteriophages as one-health approaches, bioinformatics analysis of bacteriophage genomes [assembly, annotation, comparative genomics, search/identification of proteins on interest (e.g., endolysins, depolymerases)].

Sanna Maria Sillankorva

• Organisation: International Iberian nanotechnology laboratory
• Position: Staff Researcher
• E-mail: sanna.sillankorva@inl.int