JPIAMR 13th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
• Country: Spain (ES)

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

• Keywords:

  Anti-biofilm and vaccine strategies; farm-to-fork approach; Klebsiella pneumoniae and Extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli; UTIs; High-risk MDR Enterobacteriaceae

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

  We are two researchers of the University of Santiago de Compostela, both PIs of the competitive Spanish National Research Project, from the AEI agency, entitled ”Integraded strategies to improve food safety in meat intensive production: From Farm to Fork (AMR-BIOFILM). PID2019-104439RB-C21”. This project engages both PIs, four phD students and three postdocs, together with outside researchers from CIBIR (La Rioja, Spain), HUCA (Oviedo, Spain), the University of Copenhaguen (Denmark) and the German Federal Institute for risk assessment (Berlin, Germany). So, our team is multidisciplinary and international (human and veterinary medicine) and our capacities are fully aligned with the two areas of the present JPIAMR call. Dr. Ana Otero (orcid: 0000-0002-3315-5709), Professor in Microbiology and leader of the Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture Research Group (AQUABIOTEC), with more than 25 years’ experience in microbial biotechnology, with robust links with industry. In recent years, AQUABIOTEC has focused on the development of several patents based on novel antimicrobial compounds targeting bacterial Quorum Sensing systems. More recently, her group has been working with several pathogens and microcosm models for the development of novel anti-biofilm strategies. Dr. Azucena Mora (orcid: 0000-0002-0785-5795), Professor in Veterinary Microbiology and member of the Spanish National Reference Laboratory for the Detection of E. coli (LREC-USC) in Food included in the EU-NRLs for VTEC. Long experience in human and animal pathogenic E. coli. Current research line: MDR food-borne Enterobacteriacea, with solid experience in vivo murine models and vaccine design to prevent porcine and avian colibacillosis and UTI infections. Our lab holds an updated collection of MDR Enterobacteriaceae.

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

  We would like to join a project searching alternative strategies to the use of antibiotics, complementary or synergic to ours. We also aim to apply these strategies “in the farm to get to the table”, in the One-Health approach.

Dr. Azucena Mora (azucena.mora@usc) / Dr. Ana Otero (anamaria.otero@usc.es)

• Organisation: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
• Position: Associate Professors
• E-mail: azucena.mora@usc.es
• Phone: +34 982822110; +34 881816913
• Web: Twitter: @ABiofilm