JPIAMR 13th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Makerere University
• Country: Uganda (UG)

Research area

• Scientific area(s):
  1. Understand the impact of interventions on development and transmission of AMR
  2. Design, implement, evaluate, and compare innovative interventions to control the development and transmission of AMR
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Animal Health Environment

• Keywords:

  AMR; Bioinformatics; Shotgun metagenomics; Microbiology; Surveillance

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

  Antimicrobial Resistance, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Microbiology, Shotgun metagenomics, One-Health

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

  The drivers of AMR in LIMC are complex and may be rooted in practices of healthcare professionals/hospitals, abuse of antimicrobials, unreliable supply chains of antimicrobials in the population, poor wastewater and sewage management, antimicrobial use in animal/poultry farms, poor management of pharmaceutical industrial waste, lack of appropriate functioning drug regulatory mechanisms. I am looking for team (s) interested in understanding of acquisition, transmission and diversity of AMR by investigating hospital, farm animal and industrial wastes using Shotgun metagenomics. I seek to study metagenome sequence data from One-Health wastes from different countries including Uganda during two seasons (dry and wet).

Gerald Mboowa

• Organisation: Makerere University
• Position: Bioinformatics scientist
• E-mail: gmboowa@gmail.com
• Web: imb.mak.ac.ug/