OHAMR Call for proposals 2026

General Information

• Project title: Steering metabolic trade-offs in pathogen subpopulations to enhance antibiotic efficacy.
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna / FFoQSI
• Country: Austria (AT)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: Identify and develop new combination treatments using existing or innovative antimicrobials or antimicrobial with adjunctive treatments to extend drug efficacy and combat resistance.
• One Health Setting:

  H - Human Health

  A - Animal Health

• Keywords:

  Reverse-ecology metabolic trade-offs population genomics

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

  We bring expertise in microbial population genomics and reverse ecology. We are looking for experts in microbial metabolism and/or a particular pathogen group from the bacterial priority pathogens list.

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

  This project applies a reverse ecology and population-genomic framework to identify metabolic vulnerabilities in ecologically differentiated subpopulations of key pathogenic bacteria. We will predict metabolic targets within these subpopulations that generate fitness trade-offs under antimicrobial stress, then systematically screen the substrates or products associated with those targets to assess their interactions with antibiotic susceptibility. By coupling population-specific metabolic profiling with antimicrobial interaction assays, this work aims to identify metabolic trade-offs that can be therapeutically leveraged to improve treatment outcomes.

Cameron Strachan

• Organisation: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna / FFoQSI
• Position:
• E-mail: cameron.strachan@vetmeduni.ac.at