16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Sunshine Coast University
• Country: Australia (AU)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: to develop novel, or improve existing, diagnostics, including point of care diagnostics, that can rule out antimicrobial use or help identify the most effective antimicrobial treatment
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Plants (incl. trees and crops)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Burkholderia pseudomallei; bioinformatics; functional; mechanisms

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

  Experienced in bioinformatics and predicting AMR using next-generation sequencing, functional characterisation of AMR mechanisms, AMR in Burkholderia pseudomallei and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, development and validation of real-time PCR based AMR diagnostics.

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

  Looking for anyone that needs bioinformatics support, assay design or validation support or domain expertise in Gram-negative pathogens and/or AMR mechanisms.

Derek Sarovich

• Organisation: Sunshine Coast University
• Position: Senior Research Fellow
• E-mail: dsarovich@usc.edu.au
• Phone: +61435100829
• Web: pathogenomicsblog.wordpress.com/