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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Calabria
• Country: Italy (IT)
• 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)

• Keywords:

  microbiology AMR human health antibacterial molecules

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

  Our area of research is the antibacterial and inhibitory activity against quorum sensing and the biofilm formation process by essential oils from ten aromatic plants grown in Calabria (Italy), used routinely to impart aroma and taste to food. These studies are being conducted on Escherichia coli and their antibiotic-resistant, Chromobacterium violaceum, Enterococcus faecalis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In addition, we recently published a paper reporting the transcriptomic profiles of Escherichia coli cells characterized by adaptive antibiotic resistance

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

  We are looking for projects that aim to achieve the identification of novel molecules and their application in the clinical field

Dina Bellizzi

• Organisation: University of Calabria
• Position: Associate Professor in Genetics
• E-mail: dina.bellizzi@unical.it
• Phone: +390984492944