One Health EJP Short Term Missions Awarded for 2021
Startup of an efficient sequencing facility
Details:
| STM Researchers: | Catherine Arnason Boe |
| Home Institute: | Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway |
| Mission Hosting Institute: | SSI, Denmark |
| Duration of Mission: | 1 week |
| One Health Thematic Area: | Foodborne Zoonoses, AMR and Emerging threats |
Aim of the mission
The aim of this mission was to develop skills in the management of a sequencing facility using an automated workflow. The project SEQ-TECH at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) has recently acquired equipment to set up an automated high-throughput sequencing platform. However, the routine workflow is not yet entirely established, and the potential of the different machines is not fully exploited. By visiting the SSI and following their weekly routine for library preparation and high-throughput sequencing (HTS), the participant aimed to learn how to improve the NVI workflow.
CarbaPlasmid – Tracking endemic carbapenemase plasmids in human, animal and environmental isolates.
Details:
| STM Researchers: | Liam Burke |
| Home Institute: | NUI Galway, Ireland |
| Mission Hosting Institute: | VISAVET, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain |
| Duration of Mission: | 1 month |
| One Health Thematic Area: | One Health, AMR |
Aim of the mission
The aim of this mission was to develop skills in nanopore sequencing and hybrid sequence analysis in order to characterise antimicrobial resistance plasmids for One Health epidemiological investigations.
Zoonotic pathogen detection in rats
Details:
Aim of the mission
The Short Term Mission opened up the opportunity to compare and harmonise pathogen detection methods between RIVM and FLI, share reference material, and test new detection methods.
The mission focused on detection methods for specific zoonotic pathogens carried and transmitted by rats, to gain more insight in the prevalence and transmission of such infective agents that are able to cross species barriers.
