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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: NRL-AR, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana "M. Aleandri"
• Country: Italy (IT)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

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:

  Human Health

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

• Keywords:

  molecular epidemiology; bioinformatics; WGS; MGEs; antimicrobial susceptibility testing

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

  The NRL-AR coordinates the National Monitoring Programme of AMR in veterinary medicine (food-producing animals, food of animal origin) in Italy according to the current EU legislation. I work in a research group within the NRL-AR which is active in the field of applied research on genomic aspects (core genome, accessory genome) of zoonotic agents & antimicrobial resistance. My expertise and research include AMR detection, using phenotypic and genotypic methods, in (zoonotic) bacterial pathogens and opportunistic bacteria in a One-Health perspective at animal-environment-human interface.

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

  I am interested in projects aiming at improve AMR surveillance systems with a One Health approach, e.g. by using High-throughput sequencing methods to track the global evolution and spread of AMR (zoonotic) agents and the horizontal gene transfer of AMR genes

Virginia Carfora

• Organisation: NRL-AR, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana "M. Aleandri"
• Position: Veterinary Officer
• E-mail: virginia.carfora@izslt.it
• Web: www.izslt.it/crab/