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

General Information

• Project title: exDNA-associated ARGs in drinking lines of poultry farms
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Institute for Hygiene and Public Health , University Hospital Bonn
• Country: Germany (DE)
• 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:
  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  extracellular DNA; poultry; HGT

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

  We´re looking for a project partner, who aims to analyse antibiotic-resistance genes associated with extracellular DNA (exDAN) in drinking lines of poultry farms or wastewater from slaughterhouses. Transformation of exDNA-associated ARGs in in vitro chicken gut model would be interesting as well.

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

  Based on the hypotheses that biofilms in drinking lines ensure constant subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics, we want to analyse abundances of exDNA-associated ARGs in drinking lines of poultry farms and its uptake by water- and chicken gut-associated bacteria through transformation.

Michael Savin-Hoffmeyer

• Organisation: Institute for Hygiene and Public Health , University Hospital Bonn
• Position: Postdoc
• E-mail: michael.savin-hoffmeyer@ukbonn.de
• Web: www.ukbonn.de/ihph/