SESSION 4: Culturomics vs. Metagenomics for Surveillance
“Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) as environmental contaminants: Where are we now?”
Invited Speaker: Amy Pruden
Virginia Tech, United States
Prof. Amy Pruden is the W. Thomas Rice Professor and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. She earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences (1997) and her PhD (2002) in Environmental Science, both at the University of Cincinnati. Her research is focused on understanding the fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in aquatic, terrestrial, and airborne environmental systems. She is currently leading a transdisciplinary PhD training grant funded by the US National Science Foundation focused on translating metagenomic-based surveillance of AMR into policy and practice. Pruden is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, the Paul L. Busch Award for innovation in water research, the Recipharm International Environmental Award, and is a fellow of the International Water Association.
Presentations:
“Cultivation strategies have a strong impact on studies of antimicrobial resistant bacteria”
Stefanie P Glaeser – Kämpfer, Peter; Pulami, Dipen; Balchandran, Sanjana; Chifiriuc, Carmen; Schmitt, Heike; Scott, Andrew; Topp, Ed; Chalmers, Gabhan; Ricker, Nicole
Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
“Bathing Water Based Epidemiology – five years AMR surveillance at Scottish bathing water sites (2018-2023)”
Donald Morrison – Findlay, David; O’Keefe, Brian; Stidson, Ruth; Asogwa, Mimi; Blaud, Aimeric; Redshaw, John
Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, United Kingdom
“Genomic and metagenomic insights into antimicrobial resistance in human, poultry, and wastewater environments in urban and rural Bangladesh”
Mohammad Islam
Washington State University, United States
Lecture Series from the 7th Environmental Dimension of Antimicrobial Resistance Conference (2024)
www.mcGill.ca/amrcentre/edar7
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