This course introduces participants to AI methods used to predict disease outbreaks, to predict antibiotic resistance of pathogens, to survey pathogens and antibiotic resistance in the environment, to decipher host-pathogen interactions, to aid the development of new antimicrobials and to use AI responsibly.
In addition, three workshops are given that focus on the AlphaFold AI system, SIAMCAT metagenomic data analysis and scientific automation.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Courtesy: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
This five-day intensive course for NDPIA members introduces antibiotic resistance from a microbial perspective and from a clinical – One Health perspective.
The course gives an in-depth overview on:
the modes of action of different antibiotics and how microbes resist the effects of the antibiotics,
diagnostic methods to detect known and novel resistance genes,
the origins of resistance genes and the biological cost of resistance for the microbe, and
modern methodology for new antibiotic development and alternative therapeutics for infectious disease
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The tenth National Infection Biology and Swedish Microbiology Meeting 2023 was held at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell in Bålstad during 23-24 October 2023. The meeting was co-organized by the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA; www.ndpia.se) and the Swedish Society for Microbiology (SFM; www.mikrobiologi.net/sfm) with the aims to enhance cross-disciplinary research in Sweden within the fields of infection biology and microbiology as well as to strengthen the Swedish network of scientists within these fields.
Microorganisms are found nearly everywhere, and their versatile activities greatly impact our health and the environment, both positively and negatively. Microbiology research, now an integrative science, is vital for addressing certain global ambitions and challenges, such as disease prevention and treatment, maintaining our health, and protecting our food and water.
Currentstate-of-the-art microbiology research in Sweden will be presented by invited speakerswithin the sub-disciplines of bacteriology, virology, eukaryotic microbiology, host response,and environmental microbiology. In addition, 16 oral presentations have been selectedfrom the poster abstract submissions and poster walks are organized allowing participantsto present and discuss their work with other participants.
Welcome introduction given by Debra Milton, professor at Umeå University and National director of NDPIA. Photo: Hanna Eriksson.Welcome introduction given by Kristina Jonas, professor at Stockholm University and board member of SFM. Photo: Hanna Eriksson.Group photo of the participants and organizers of the tenth National Infection Biology and Swedish Microbiology Meeting 2023. Photo: Hanna Eriksson.Online lecture on “Mucosal immunity to influenza virus infection”, given by Davide Angeletti, associate professor at University of Gothenburg. Photo: Hanna Eriksson.Students were presenting and discussing their work during poster sessions. Photo: Hanna Eriksson.
Many thanks to the organizing committee
Debra Milton, Umeå University, National Director for NDPIA
Keira Melican, Karolinska Institutet, SFM
Oliver Billker, Umeå University, Director of MIMS
Carl-Fredrik Flach, University of Gothenburg, NDPIA
Edmund Loh, Karolinska Institutet, NDPIA
Helen Wang, Uppsala University, NDPIA, SFM
Pontus Nordenfelt, Lund University, NDPIA
Hanna Eriksson, NDPIA Project Administrator, Umeå University
