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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Country: (ES)
• 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)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  Shewanella; aquatic bacteria; bacterial physiology; biofilms; antibiotic resistance

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

  Senior scientist recently appointed Assoc. Prof. o Microbiology at the ULPGC, Spain (Sept. 2022). Early-stage PI (< 8 years post-PhD). I have a track record in bacterial physiology and biofilm research, with a focus on the genus Shewanella and other aquatic bacteria. I can provide a strong competence in bacterial genetics and gene manipulation, bacterial metabolism, access to sequencing technologies, and experience in the isolation and identification of waterborne pathogens or environmental strains, as well as the detection of AMR genes or the capture of mobile genetic elements.

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

  Based on the Canary Islands, Spain. Willing to contribute to AMR surveillance in this European ultraperipheral region with significant singularities. Key interests: -AMR circulation/prevention in bacterial biofilms. -Surveillance of AMR resistance in planktonic vs biofilm communities in the environment, especially on polluted sites (antifouling compounds, industrial effluents, wastewater, eutrophic waters, sediments). -Detection, isolation, and characterization of AMR mobilomes in aquatic bacterial communities including waterborne human/animal pathogenic species.

Alberto J. Martín-Rodríguez

• Organisation: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Position: Associate Professor
• E-mail: alberto.martin@ulpgc.es