The “Summer School on Antimicrobial Resistance 2022” (https://amrsummerschool22.wixsite.com/amr22 ), organized under the scope of the FEDER/FCT funded project BIOSAFE with support from GHTM/IHMT-NOVA, took place online from 12th-15th September. It was attended by 36 participants from 8 countries, representing 16 different institutions.
Lectures were presented by a panel of renowned international and national experts on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including Professor Stefan Schwarz and Doctor Andrea T. Feßler, from Freie Universität Berlin (Germany); Professor Adriana E. Rosato from University of California Riverside (USA), Doctor Sara Babo Martins and members of the BIOSAFE team that presented the main findings of the project.
The presentations covered several topics on AMR, namely an overview of bacterial mechanisms of AMR, new methods to assess biocide susceptibility, next-generation sequencing and transcriptomic approaches to explore AMR mechanisms and AMR in a One Health perspective.
