Tag: EDAR

Finally the lab podcast is back! In this episode Microbiology Lab Pod, the team (Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Emil Burman, Anna Abramova, Marcus Wenne, Mirjam Dannborg and Agata Marchi) discusses the environmental antibiotic resistance in anticipation of the EDAR conference coming up later this week!

The specific papers discussed in the pod are as follows:

• Marcoleta, Andrés E., Patricio Arros, Macarena A. Varas, José Costa, Johanna Rojas-Salgado, Camilo Berríos-Pastén, Sofía Tapia-Fuentes, et al. “The Highly Diverse Antarctic Peninsula Soil Microbiota as a Source of Novel Resistance Genes.” Science of The Total Environment 810 (March 2022): 152003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152003
• Yi, Xinzhu, Jie-Liang Liang, Jian-Qiang Su, Pu Jia, Jing-li Lu, Jin Zheng, Zhang Wang, et al. “Globally Distributed Mining-Impacted Environments Are Underexplored Hotspots of Multidrug Resistance Genes.” The ISME Journal 16, no. 9 (September 2022): 2099–2113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01258-z
• Johnning, Anna, Erik Kristiansson, Jerker Fick, Birgitta Weijdegård, and DG Joakim Larsson. “Resistance Mutations in GyrA and ParC Are Common in Escherichia Communities of Both Fluoroquinolone-Polluted and Uncontaminated Aquatic Environments.” Frontiers in Microbiology 6 (2015): 1355. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01355
• Flach, Carl-Fredrik, Chandan Pal, Carl Johan Svensson, Erik Kristiansson, Marcus Östman, Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Mats Tysklind, and D. G. Joakim Larsson. “Does Antifouling Paint Select for Antibiotic Resistance?” The Science of the Total Environment 590–591 (July 15, 2017): 461–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.213

The podcast was recorded on September 12, 2022. If you want to reach out to us with comments, suggestions, or other feedback, please send an e-mail to podcast at microbiology dot se or contact @bengtssonpalme via Twitter. The music that can be heard on the pod is composed by Johan Bengtsson-Palme and is taken from the album Cafe Phonocratique.

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This spring I am on part time parental leave with my son, and I have taken the opportunity to reshape this web site a bit – after all its design has not been updated since I launched the site in 2010. With the new site, I want to extend the scope of the web page a bit, focusing more on the lab I am setting up at the University of Gothenburg and less on myself alone. This will be a bit by bit process, and as you will notice most of the content does not yet reflect this change (yet).

The fact that I am on part-time parental leave (actually more like “most-time”) means that I will be slower than usual at responding to e-mails until (at least) the beginning of June. It also (sadly) means that I will have to decline a lot of nice invitations and proposals, or at least move them into the future when possible.

Finally, here’s a few things that will happen this year regardless. In April (16th to 18th), I will be at ICOHAR in Utrecht, where I will give a talk in a session on the role of the environment in the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Then in June, I will attend ASM Microbe in San Fransisco (June 20-24), where I will co-chair a session on Environmental Resistomes together with Ashley Shade. In this session I will also give a talk on the effect of antibiotics on interactions in microbial communities. However, I will not attend EDAR-5 in Hong Kong this year – there simply wasn’t time to fit that into the agenda as well. (Also, I am trying to cut down on air travel which contributed to the decision not to go this year.)