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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: National Medicines Institute
• Country: Poland (PL)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: to develop or improve existing strategies, technologies or methods, or data use strategies to support One Health AMR surveillance
• One Health Setting:
  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  Gram-negative bacteria; molecular epidemiology; beta-lactamases; clonal dissemination; horizontal AMR gene transfer

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

  For more than 20 years, I was a member of a team involved in epidemiological analysis of human infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria producing new types of beta-lactamases (ESBLs, AmpC cephalosporinases, carbapenemases MBL KPC and OXA-48-like). The scientific work in which I participated concerned the epidemiological situation of the above-mentioned infections in Poland and, in cooperation with numerous foreign centres, also internationally. I was a member of a research team carrying out various national scientific projects, as well as those carried out by international consortia, e.g. under the 6th EU Framework Programme (COBRA and MOSAR projects). Recently, I have adapted my experience gained in molecular epidemiology of human pathogens to epidemiological studies of environmental microorganisms. Currently, I am the head of a team focusing on the molecular epidemiology of beta-lactam resistant Enterobacterales found in wastewater. However, I do not exclude extending our research interests to microorganisms found in other environments.

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

  We are interested in collaborating on a project involving the identification of AMR genes and bacterial clones, and mechanisms of resistance spread among Gram-negative bacilli from different environments.

Anna Baraniak

• Organisation: National Medicines Institute
• Position: Head of the Department of Biomedical Research
• E-mail: a.baraniak@nil.gov.pl
• Web: sciprofiles.com/user/publications/1607410