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Workshop: Sewage surveillance of antibiotic resistance – New EU requirements. How, when, and, most importantly, why?

Sustainability and environment
Health and medicine

Meet researchers and representatives from the wastewater and health sectors for a day of presentations and discussions.

Workshop
Date
28 Oct 2024
Time
10:00 - 16:00
Location
Wallenberg Conference Centre, room Europa
Cost
Free of charge
Registration deadline
14 October 2024
Good to know
This workshop is free of charge. A lunch, coffee and snacks will be served
Organizer
Centre for Antibiotic Resistance research, CARe
Registration is closed.

Programme

9:30 – 10:00  Registration and coffee 

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome and opening remarks (Carl-Fredrik Flach, University of Gothenburg, CARe)

10:10 - 10:40 The new EU Urban Wastewater Treatment directive in relation to AMR. (Anders Finnson, Svenskt Vatten)

10:40 - 11:10 Why measure antibiotic resistance in wastewater? (Joakim Larsson, University of Gothenburg, CARe)

11:10 - 11:40 Experiences of antibiotic resistance monitoring in wastewater. (Carl-Fredrik Flach, University of Gothenburg, CARe)

11:40 - 12:00 Discussion

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch and mingle

13:15 - 13:45 Experiences of long-term virus surveillance in wastewater. (Kristina Nyström, Sahlgrenska University Hospital)

13:45 - 14:15 Wastewater surveillance of antibiotic resistance – a clinical perspective from Norway. (Gunnar Skov Simonsen, The Arctic University of Norway)

14:15 - 14:45 Fika

14:45 - 15:05 What is measured in wastewater today? (Susanne Tumlin, Gryaab)

15:05 - 15:35 Methodologies for surveillance of antibiotic resistance in wastewater. (Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Chalmers University of Technology, CARe)

15:35 – 16:00 Discussion

 

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