JPIAMR 2022 Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for network
• Organisation: Sri Lanka Institute of Biotechnology
• Country: Sri Lanka (LK)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Surveillance
• Focal area(s):
  • Identify actions that will improve the diagnostics and surveillance of AMR (in humans and/or animals and/or agriculture and the environment).
  • Identify actions needed to support the development of new tools, technologies and systems for diagnosis and surveillance.
  • Identify novel or existing data platforms that can be developed or improved to aid international alignment and support the use of surveillance data and/or diagnostics to improve prescription of narrow-spectrum antimicrobials and support alignment with stewardship programmes.
  • Identify or assess user needs for tools, technologies, or systems for diagnostics and/or surveillance in appropriate One Health settings.
  • Identify the data collection needed to understand inequality in access to diagnostics and how socio-economic factors contribute to this inequality.
  • Extend or continue activities of previously funded JPIAMR networks within Surveillance

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Animal Health Environment

• Keywords:

  Metagenomics; AMR; Bioinformatics; Soil microbiome

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

  I am working on metagenomics and 16S rRNA profiling, mainly in bioinformatics. I would like to know more in Kraken and other genome-wide analysis methods.

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

  Mainly bioinformatics related to metagenomics data analysis pipelines,

Gayan Withanage

• Organisation: Sri Lanka Institute of Biotechnology
• Position: Research Scientist
• E-mail: gayan.withanage@slibtec.gov.lk
• Phone: +94719320762