The AMR Studio

Coming to your right live from ESCMID Global 2024! Last month, the we participated in the most massive conference ever, ESCMID Global (previously known as ECCMID) in beautiful Barcelona, this year counting with 18.000 registered attendees (yes, you read that right!). We took the opportunity to sit down to catch a breath, and catch up, with some friends and colleagues whom we have not seem for a while! Listen to the updates from Andrea Caputo Svensson, Marius Linkevicius, Po-Cheng Tang & Christer Malmberg, as we talk about health policy, public health, industry vs. academia, the road from prototype to bedside, and much more! We hope you enjoy. Check relevant links in the show notes at https://www.uu.se/en/centre/uppsala-antibiotic-center/communication/the-amr-studio/episode-x12. Follow our updates on twitter/X on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to April dear listeners! In this episode, we bring you an interview with Dr. Alberto Antonelli, researcher at the University of Florence doing a very important job: taking care of testing and optimizing new diagnostic technologies in high AMR-impacted settings such as Italy. Tune in to listen his path to his research field, the challenges he faces and what we should be looking forward to in the future. In the news section, we first cover a recent comment article by Otto Cars and Matti Karvanen presenting why the current way we talk and communicate about resistance is blocking global action, and a recent research article published by the group of our center's director, investigating the mysterious, and sometimes fleeting, fitness of plasmids in different hosts. We hope you have a great time with us! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode55. Follow our updates on twitter/X on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

After a short hiatus, we are back with our regular episodes, and with a pop-up guest co-host! Tune in to our first of 2024, where we learn about surveillance and use of health data for its automation with Suzanne Ruhe-van der Werff, research specialist at Karolinska Institutet. In this interview, we learn about Suzanne's path from parasitology to infection prevention and control and talk about the future of infectious diseases and resistance surveillance through her current research, which looks into using artificial intelligence and algorithms that use patient health records. In the news, we bring you two research articles, the first presenting the results of a preorganized antibiotic design to overcome resistance due to the way it binds to the ribosome, and the second looking into the mechanisms of species-species interaction between a probiotic and a pathogenic bacteria and how this knowledge led to an engineered probiotic better at preventing pathogen defenses. We hope you enjoy this episode! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode54. Follow our updates on twitter/X on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

How can we prevent antibiotic resistance together? For this World AMR Awareness Week 2023, we focus on this togetherness by highlighting Community Engagement in AMR, with 8 guests bringing us their perspectives on what communities and community engagement are, how community engagement can be essential on the road to mitigate the effects of resistance globally, and what they hope happens in this area in the short future. We truly believe that meaningfully engaging communities and civil society actors in this field is an essential part in mitigating the effects of resistance worldwide, and that together we can make an impact. Because the community is all of us, the community is all of you. Happy WAAW23! Check out the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex11/ and the whole episode transcript at https://bit.ly/epx11_transcript. Follow our updates on twitter/X on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to November! In this episode, we bring you the work of Álvaro San Millán, group leader at the National Center for Biotechnology in Spain, where he researches the role of plasmids in antibiotic resistance. In this interview, among other things, we talk about how understanding plasmid biology can lead to new ways of tackling resistance, and learn about his impressions of being a young group leader and setting up a multidisciplinary team. In the news section, we are being very “communicative” this month, first covering a recent study looking at 6 different terms used in AMR communications in terms of being able to evoque risk and being remembered, and a paper published by CE4AMR, where they share their insights on what to include while co-creating solutions with communities, and why. We hope you have a great time with us! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode53 . Follow our updates on twitter on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to a new episode, albeit the slight delay! Tune in this October to listen to Elin's first interview ever! She had the chance to sit down and talk to Jakob Altgärde, infectious diseases physician with experience in hospital work around infections and resistance in both Sweden and Nepal. With him, we learn how an ID physician works day-to-day, and the main differences between Sweden and Nepal when it comes to his work and AMR. In the news section, we first talk about a recent massive high-throughput screening done for drug combinations on gram positives (Bacillus, Staphylococcus & Streptococcus), and a thought piece by Claas Kirchhelle presenting the idea of the Antibiocene, a new geological era where AMR is the main signal of the phenotypic and genotypic changes that our microbial commons have suffered due to our relationship with antimicrobials. We hope you enjoy this hour with us! *Note: at minute 15:27 “World Bank” is heard as “world-bike”. Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode52 . Follow our updates on twitter on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

We are back from summer break with a new discipline at our studio, ethnobotany! Click play to hear about the work of ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave, a.k.a. The Plant Hunter, in her quest to find new antibiotics, anti-infectives, and biofilm inhibitors in plants used in traditional medicines around the world. We learn with her about the vast chemical world still yet to be studied, and how a horizontal lab works with its collaborators. In the news section, we bring you two recent research articles looking into the effects of antibiotics in two different ways: how broad-spectrum antibiotics use can influence the growth of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteria, and how the presence of sub-MIC antibiotics changes the structure and diversity of river biofilms. Enjoy! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode51. Follow our updates on Twitter/X at http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with the #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to our July episode, just before the holidays! This month, we bring you an interview with Sophia Wood, designer, and teacher at the Beckmans College of Design. Sophia led a group of design students through the “interdisciplinary waters” as they prepared to make an exhibition about AMR which they named “Are We There Yet?”. Tune in to learn about her background, their process, and what this exhibition is all about. In the news section, we first bring you a scientific article about a compound reducing the mutagenesis that results from the use of ciprofloxacin, and two important news related to policy: a recommendation recently adopted by the Council of the European Union, and a priority research agenda brought forward by the World Health Organization. We hope you enjoy this month, we see you back in September. Have a lovely summer ahead! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode50. Follow our updates on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

June comes with a bang! Tune in to this episode to hear the insights of the incomparable Dame Sally Davies, former UK Chief Medical Officer and current UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance. We chat with her about her path to being a global advocate on AMR, the need for better global governance, and what her vast experience has taught her. Talking to her was a truly inspirational experience.​ In the news section, we bring you a very cool article using deep learning and computational methods (hello Artificial Intelligence!) to find a potential antibiotic against Acinetobacter baumanii, and a brief study presenting the results of a new antimicrobial susceptibility testing that is independent of growth by analyzing bacterial nano-movement Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode49. Follow our updates on twitter on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Spring is back in Sweden, and so are we in your ears! This month of May we bring you an interview with Anna Sjöblom, director of ReAct Europe, a branch of an international organization working to promote and deliver action on antibiotic resistance. We learn about Anna's background, the path that led her to ReAct, and many of the activities that ReAct has done and have currently ongoing. In the news section, we cover the latest expert policy brief published by ReAct, a recent article looking into how antibiotic use at a country level can affect the gut microbiome, and a study revealing that the evolutionary pathways of plasmids in a clinical setting might be more difficult to predict than previously thought. Thanks for tuning in! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode48 . Follow our updates on twitter on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify .

The AMR Studio goes on a field trip! Join our hosts Eva & Elin on their adventures in Copenhagen at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (a.k.a. ECCMID) this year. From 15th to 18th of April, more than 13.000 people came together to talk about the most recent advances in infectious diseases, including antimicrobial resistance. Listen to this special episode to peek into the crazy days that it was, and some of the things we learnt along the way. Check out the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex10/ . Follow our updates on twitter on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Music by Chillmore at Pixabay.

In this episode, we bring you a double interview with two women deeply involved in patient advocacy and AMR. Tune in to hear the story of Pernilla Rönnholm, chair and founder of Mirakel, an association advocating for premature babies and their families, and the work that Laura Cigolot is doing within the AMR patient group, a cross-European initiative to bring awareness of AMR to many kinds of patients. We learn their perspectives, synergies, and what they hope for the road ahead. In the news section, we cover an article looking into the potential financial incentives for antibiotic prescribing in Austria, and a study exploring the potential effects and uses of collateral phenotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We wish you a lovely month of April! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode47 . Follow our updates on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify

Ready for a new episode? This month of March we bring you an interview with Alison Prendiville, Professor of Service Design at London Colleague of Communication, University of the Arts, London. With Alison, we learn the importance of co-creation and design when working with implementation, and how crucial communication is in various forms for interdisciplinary research. Tune in to learn the journey that took her from working on designing in transport to applied work on AMR, and much more. In the news section, we talk about a recent research article estimating current trends of antimicrobial use on food-producing animals, and an article studying how antibiotic use shapes bacteriuria during COVID-19 ICU stays. In this episode, we also introduce you to our new co-host, PhD student Elin Fermér. We hope you have a great time with us this month! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode46 . Follow our updates on twitter on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify .

Welcome to 2023! Tune in to this episode to hear the work and experience of Professor Nicola Gale, a sociologist with long experience in interdisciplinary work. We learn with her about sociological work, how she applies risk work theory to AMR, and her insights into the intersection between the application of guidelines and the personal experience of healthcare workers. In the news section, we bring you a recent research article looking into the relationship between the fungus in our microbiota and salmonella infections, and an important health policy publication analyzing and proposing a framework for the use of imagery in global health. In this episode, we also say goodbye to our lovely co-host, Dr. Jennifer Jagmann, as she continues onto new adventures. We hope you enjoy this one! Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode45. Follow our updates on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify .

Welcome to this last episode of 2022! After a super busy and important month of November, we bring you a new episode with quite a Swedish perspective. On November 17th, we attended the Swedish Antibiotic Forum event and were able to talk to Jonas Fuks, an analyst at the Public Health Agency of Sweden, about the 10-year anniversary of the forum and the group behind it, the Swedish intersectoral coordination group. Learn how they have been working, what their goals are, and what their work has meant in the national efforts to reduce the impact of AMR. On the commentary, we also talk about our own experience at this year's forum, and what was covered. In the news section, we bring you two articles by researchers associated with the center, one interdisciplinary article looking at the use of the CRP test in primary care through the light of conversation analysis, and an article shedding light on the phenomenon of antibiotic persistence. We hope you have a good time with us! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode44/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Can you imagine a society where every individual and organization acts and works in a way to reduce the impact of antibiotic resistance? A society where everyone is aware of the problem and engaged in trying to resolve it? How would that look to you? For this year's World Antimicrobial Awareness Week we bring you the Antibiotic Smart Sweden initiative, a mission-oriented approach to system change, highlighting the importance of antibiotic resistance not just as a medical issue, but as a public health issue that is relevant to the whole society and sustainable development. Check out the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex9/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Coming in hot for this November month! Today we have with us Dr. Vaughn Cooper, professor and director of the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Tune in to learn about his deep love for evolution, his background at the Lenski lab, and his current work studying biofilms. For the news section, we first bring you Jenny's recent paper looking at the evolution of resistance to tigecycline and then move on to a UAC paper on the evolution of chromosomal hybrids which result in enlarged chromosomes. For a change, this time we also talk about vaccines, covering a surveillance study looking at the effect of pneumococcal vaccines and COVID-19 on AMR. We finish up the news by mentioning two big things released this month: a follow-up to the report on the global burden of AMR in 2019, this time with numbers on the WHO European Region, and a new WHO Fungal Priority Pathogen List. Buckle up, this episode covers a lot! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode43/. Follow our updates on Twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

In this October episode, we bring you an interview with Dr. Björn Ronnerstrand, a political sciences researcher who brings to us how political sciences and AMR intersect and his work on the possible role of the EU in AMR policy. We also discuss the need for more political science research in this area and how AMR can be a fantastic starting point for theoretical work, not just practice. In the news section, we talk about a recent article on the role of trust in the non-prescribed acquisition of antibiotics, an update to the antibiotic prescribing consensus, and a recent article by a UAC alumn that describes the contextual factors behind prescribing patterns in Uganda. Ready for a rather thematic episode around antibiotic prescriptions? We hope you enjoy it! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode42/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

In this September episode, we bring you a 2-for-1 interview! Listen to Bruce Blough & Elliott Pauli talk about the Chemistry Center for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (CC4CARB) project they are working on, an innovative chemistry center focused on the synthesis, acquisition, and distribution of rationally designed, focused libraries free-of-charge to the global scientific community for use in Gram-negative antibacterial drug discovery programs. In this interview, we learn about Bruce & Elliott's background, how CC4CARB works and what it is bringing to the table. In our news section, first we cover a recent article looking into the evolution of beta lactamase-mediated resistance to cefiderocol, a new antibiotic with an innovative entry method. We also bring you a paper describing a protocol to study biofilms in space (yes, space!) and comment on the most recent report published by the WHO on antibiotic resistance awareness. We hope you enjoy this one! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode41/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome back to the AMR studio after our short summer break! For this episode, we are bringing you an interview with Dr. John Jernigan, physician and director of the Office of Hospital Acquired Infections Prevention Research and Evaluation Division at the CDC. We talk with him about the new innovative approaches that the CDC is working on when it comes to AMR, with a focus on decolonization. Learn with us about why decolonization is important and how it can help the reduce the burden of AMR. In our news section, we cover a very recent publication that explores a new, simple, and cheap multiplexed test for antibiotic susceptibility, and a very interesting study published by one of our Ph.D. students looking into new targets and treatment of Giardia intestinalis. Thank you for being with us in our 40th episode!

Welcome to this June episode! This month we bring you a story and theme we consider very important in the efforts to control AMR: patient advocacy. Tune in to listen to the story of Vanessa Carter, a patient who suffered from the consequences of antibiotic resistance during her recovery after a car accident, and saw first hand the shortcomings of how resistance is communicated in healthcare. We talk to her about her experience and how she, after this traumatic event, focused on raising awareness. We also learn from her the importance of patient participation and how we can help more stories be heard. In the news section, we bring you an article describing a new board game teaching antimicrobial stewardship to healthcare workers, and a study looking into the evolution of antibiotic tolerance and the role of antibiotic mode of action in relation to the bacteria's metabolic state. We hope you enjoy! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode39/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Happy month of May! Happy month of May! In this one-health oriented episode we bring you the work of Carl-Fredrik Flach, who is an expert on sewage surveillance applied to AMR. In this interview, we chat with him about the overall role of the environment in AMR, what its dimensions are, and learn how sewage surveillance could be an asset to drive empirical treatment, especially in poor-resource settings. In the news section, we bring you a recent article looking into the potential effect of water chlorination in the development of children's microbiome, and a study just presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases showing evidence of spread of C. difficile between humans and animals. We hope you enjoy this hour with us, and see you back soon! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode38/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to our slightly delayed April episode! For this one, we bring you an interview with Dr. Celia Souque, an evolutionary biologist with a love for board games. We talk with her about evolution, antibiotic resistance and her great outreach board game project "Drugs vs. bugs" where she worked to design not only an educational tool, but also a beautiful, fun, and engaging game for anyone to play. In the news section, we first comment on a recent research article looking into the role of silver in re-sensitizing colistin-resistant bacteria. Then we move into a recent review paper making a case for the how-to, relevance, and importance of qualitative research in the field of antimicrobial stewardship. Two different but equally interesting reads. Are you ready? Let's dive in! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode37/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

For this month of March, we bring you an interview with Mr. Michael Craig, director of the CDC's Antibiotic Resistance Coordination and Strategy, where we learn more about the role and work of public health agencies, how the CDC works in its strategy against antibiotic resistance, and the importance of prevention. In our news section, we present to you a recent publication on how the WHO antimicrobial resistance global action plan and the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the global consumption of antimicrobials, and an article just published by one of our PhD students, investigating the mechanisms of metronidazole resistance in Giardia intestinalis. Hope you enjoy! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode36/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Happy 2022 to you all! We are glad start a new year with you with this episode. This time, we bring you an interview with our first UAC PhD graduate, Christer Malmberg, who defended his industry-PhD thesis last year, where he developed a new rapid method of testing antibiotic susceptibility. We talk about his experience throughout his studies, what this new method brings to the table, and what he wishes for the future. In the news section, we continue talking about diagnostics, looking into a recent study that explores machine learning and the readily available MALDI-TOF system to provide early information that can help guide treatment recommendations for infections. We also talk about the new seminal paper published last month in The Lancet, presenting the most up-to-date and comprehensive data on the global burden of AMR. We hope you enjoy! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode35/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to another regular episode at The AMR Studio! We are happy to be back with our interviews, and we bring you today the work and broad experience of professor and GARDP's Scientific Director Laura Piddock, an incredible scientists and AMR policy advocate. She shares with us her path, insights and experiences, and inspires us for the future. In the news section, we have for you two recent articles looking into new antibiotics, with two different but equally interesting approaches: chemical synthesis and mining the human proteome to search for hidden antibacterial properties. We hope you enjoy this one! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode34/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to the second part of this special series with occasion of the antimicrobial week. To raise awareness from and to the AMR community, today we bring you another four researchers at the Uppsala Antibiotic Center that focus their work beyond the lab and development of new treatments. Listen to learn what they are working on, from farms to hospitals, and what they want you to learn! Check out the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex8/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Happy World Antimicrobial Awareness Week! For this year's campaign theme “Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance” we thought to tackle the concept of “awareness” from a different angle. We believe that awareness of the work of others within the AMR community is also important, and that sharing the understanding, viewpoints, and perspectives of AMR professionals can have a great impact on the work that we all do. In this first episode of two, we sat down to talk to five researchers at the Uppsala Antibiotic Center that are working on different parts of the science needed to bring new treatments to the market. Stay tuned for the second episode coming later! Check out the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex8/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to another month with the AMR Studio! For this occasion, we sat down with Dr. Manica Balasegaram to talk about his path from his years as a physician to his current position as director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP). Listen to learn how he entered the AMR world and the aspirations and current work done at GARDP. This was such an inspirational interview! In the news section, we talk about a recent review/perspective piece on the current state and challenges of antibiotic resistance in patients with cancer, and we bring you a recent research article looking into the potential of the CRISPR-Cas system as an antimicrobial, and with insight into the potential resistance to it. We hope you enjoy and have a lovely month of October! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode33/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Happy September to you all! Welcome to another episode of The AMR Studio, this time featuring an interview with artist Anna Dumitriu. Tune in to listen to how Anna became so interested in bacteria and antibiotic resistance that she decided to make it a central part of her artwork. We also talk about the implications of science in art, how art and science can help one-another and what she aims to create with her pieces. In the news, we bring you a recent study looking into the details of access to recently developed antibiotics (or lack of thereof) in 14 high-income countries. We hope you enjoy and have a good time with us! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode32/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Happy month of August to you all! In this episode, we feature an interview with Dr. David Hyun, director of the antibiotic resistance project at The Pew Charitable Trusts. We start by talking about David's journey to his current position and Pew's approach to support policy change and research on AMR in the United States, before diving into their latest publication looking at antibiotic prescriptions during the first months of the COVID-19. In the news section, we cover a recent article studying the potential effects of probiotics after antibiotic treatment on the resistome of the gut microbiota. We wish you the best month ahead and hope you join us again for the next one! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode30/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify

Welcome to another episode of The AMR Studio! Dive in to learn the story of Dr. Luisa De Sordi, a microbiologist working with bacteriophages and gut bacteria to study the relationship between our digestive system, the microbiota and their associated phages. We also go through a brief history of phage therapy and its future ahead! On this occasion, we also bring you a packed news section covering a recent article looking into the impact of travel on the human resistome, and highlighting some other recent news and resources that we are sure you will enjoy. Have a lovely month! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode30/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Happy month of June to you all, and welcome to another episode of The AMR Studio! Tune in to our interview with Dr. Ana Rita Brochado, group leader at the University of Würzburg and looking into how antibiotic combinations affect bacterial growth using high-throughput methods. You will listen to an insightful and inspiring chat with a young, successful researcher that knows the power of collaborations and multidisciplinary work in AMR. In the news section, we bring you two recent scientific articles: one exploring the effect of beta-lactam antibiotics on secondary Candida infections, and another one looking into the dynamics of antibiotic treatment, the immune system & bacterial evolution over the course of an acute infection. Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode29/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to another month at The AMR Studio. In this one, we bring you Rachel Irwin, an anthropologist that has recently focus on studying the visual culture of AMR. In this interview, you'll catch us talking about her work, but also about her path into AMR, the hurdles and happy stories, and some very interesting personal insights. In the news, we cover the latest WHO report, looking into the current antibacterial pipeline, and a very recent paper by the BARNARDS network, exploring the characteristics of resistant infections in neonates from low and middle income countries. Thank you for joining, we hope you enjoy your time with us, and that we have you back next month! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode28/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to this special episode at The AMR Studio in collaboration with Drug Safety Matters podcast. As a follow up to Uppsala Health Summit on “Managing antimicrobial resistance through behaviour change” we spoke to three key participants – Otto Cars, Eldar Shafir and Vanessa Carter – to learn more. We talked to them about how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect AMR globally, how the context around us influences the decisions we make, and how patients' stories can help communicate the urgency of AMR, among other things. We hope you thoroughly enjoy this episode! Check out the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex7/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome back to The AMR Studio dear listeners. This month, we bring you an interview with Helle Aagaard, deputy director at ReAct, who has recently, as lead author, published a new report looking into sustainable solutions for access to effective antibiotics for everyone, everywhere. Listen to her story to learn more about her background and entry into policy and advocacy, and some insights into the new report. Fixing the problems around antibiotics all around the world is no easy feat, but what is it needed and where should we start? In the news section we bring you the recently published "Stewardship and access plan development guide" and a publication looking into the potential role that artificial sweeteners might have on the spread of antibiotic resistance. We hope you enjoy this episode and look forward to next ones! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode27/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Starting March the best way, with an AMR Studio episode! This time we bring you an old friend of the podcast, Mirko Ancillotti, right before his doctoral defense, talking to us about his path from philosophy and ethics into biology and public health. We also converse about his latest results on public preferences regarding antibiotic treatment, and about public misconceptions when it comes to antibiotic resistance. In the news section, we chat about why resistance evolves so quickly against antibiotics, but rarely against vaccines, and about how vaccines could help in the quest of keeping antibiotics working. We hope you enjoy this one! Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode26/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome, bienvenidos, välkommna to 2021 dear listeners! In this kickstart episode after the New Years hiatus we bring you an in-depth interview with Linus Sandegren, coordinator at UAC, but also researcher and teacher at Uppsala University. Learn how his early research in a topic quite unknown led him to work on AMR, and what his group is currently studying. He also updates us on how the center has been doing over these past years and what what we can expect in the near future. In the news section, we talk about a recent work presenting a framework to study the origin of antibiotic resistance genes, and a publication reviewing the current models to tackle market failures for antimicrobials with examples from France, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and the US. We hope you enjoy this somewhat lengthy (but full of cool stuff) episode! Check relevant links and materials at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode25/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to our last 2020 episode, listeners! For this occasion, we were thrilled to interview the last of our associate senior lecturers, Dr. Lindon Moodie. His path through the field of organic chemistry has brought him to AMR recently and in this conversation we learn how he is approaching the task of finding new antibiotics. In the news section, we close the year with a recent publication by one of our PhD students, whom worked to identify the behavioural motivations behind the use of diagnostics in a hospital in India. We also bring you the report "AMR Voices" by the Longitude Prize, a publication shining light onto the experiences of patients suffering from AMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. Check relevant links and materials at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode24/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to our special contribution for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020! In this episode we focus on the aspect of human behaviour in the AMR context. Why is it important? How can we motivate people to change the way the relate to antibiotics? What role do we all play in this? This are the very question that the Uppsala Health Summit will focus on next spring, and the questions that we bring to you today. For this episode, we have interviewed Dr. Ulf Magnusson, veterinarian and chair of the summit, and Dr. Birgitta Lytsy, an expert on infection prevention and control at the Uppsala Hospital. Listen to their experiences working to change behaviours and find sustainable solutions to curb the AMR crisis. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex6/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to November at The AMR Studio! This month we bring you the cutting-edge research conducted by one of the associate senior lecturers at the UAC, Dr. Teresa Zardán Gómez de la Torre, who is working on developing an easy, affordable, and stable new diagnostic tool based on nanotechnology. Listen to how nano-materials could be the next answer to provide low-resources settings with reliable testing for infectious diseases and/or resistance variants. In the news section, we talk about the PASTEUR act, a bi-partisan initiative in the US to bring pull incentives into work, and about the recently compilation of AMR outlooks that Nature Journal has published. Also we present the few changes that the WHO is making to the annual awareness campaign, tune in learn more about it! Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode23/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

This month we bring you the work and career of Dr. Olof Lindahl, one of the associate senior lecturers at UAC, working in the field of business studies applied to AMR. In the news section, we present to you a new innovative method to test how antibiotics combinations work, and cover a recent article looking into the evolution of plasmid stability in relation to antibiotic treatment. We hope you enjoy this episode and looking to having you back next month. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode22/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome back to The AMR Studio after the summer vacation! ☀️ Today we bring you a long-waited interview with CEFAIA's founder & AMR scientist Dr. Ursula Theuretzbacher. Learn about her career, current interests and work through our conversation, very enlightening! In the news section we cover the current launching of a big international collaborative & non-profit project, The AMR Action Fund, and a recent publication going in depth about the pitfalls of the term "antimicrobial resistance" in the light of psycholinguistics. We are excited to be back and hope you throughly enjoy this episode. See you back next month. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode21/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

July is here, and so is the heat! This month at The AMR Studio we bring you the work of Dr. Peter Jørgensen, from the Stockholm Resilience Center. Listen to this episode to learn about what resilience means, how it is related to AMR and how an evolutionary biology perspective can help achieve a more sustainable future. In the news section, we cover a recent published work looking into the background understanding and explanations of AMR in the public, plus an exciting update on how the promising teixobactin antibiotic works. Special thanks in this episode to Isa Moreno, who did a terrific job editing the interview, and big big congratulations to Jenny, who just had her first kid a week before the release of this episode (and a week after the last recording!). We hope you enjoy this month's episode and to have you back here with us next month! Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode20/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

We welcome the summer at The AMR Studio! This month, we bring you a deep conversation with Dr. Johan Bengtsson Palme from the CARe center in Gothenburg about the role of the environment in the AMR problem and how his group focuses on studying it. Dive deep into this essential part of "one health" that is so frequently talked about. In the news, we feature two recent UAC articles! Our PhD student Viktor Rognås has published his work on understanding the pharmacokinetics of colistin in very sick patients, while our PhD student Gbemisola Allwell-Brown has published her first article looking into the trends of antibiotic use in 73 low- & middle-income countries. Congrats guys! We hope you enjoy this episode and see you again in July! Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode19/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

May the 4th be with you! Welcome back to our studio, fellow listeners. We are thrilled to bring you an episode looking into some of the newest approaches within AMR research. First, we feature an interview with bioinformatician Dr. François Lebreton, whose primary work consists of using DNA sequence analysis to study outbreaks of resistant strains. In the news section, we talk about machine learning and present two recently published articles about its use in pathogen identification, susceptibility testing and drug discovery. We hope you enjoy it! Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode18/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Hi there! Whether you are still at work and doing normal life, or staying home during these difficult times, we got you! Welcome to another episode full of relevant topics around antibiotics and resistance. This month we have an interview with veterinarian Dr. Kristina Osbjer, whose work in Cambodia has helped to set up a multi-sectoral national action plan following up recommendations from the global action plan by WHO. Tune in to learn the process and challenges of such work and why these are needed all around the world to find sustainable solutions to the resistance problem. What about some news? In this occasion we dwell on two research articles by two PhD students at our center! One of the studies presents a new way of rapidly assessing antibiotic susceptibility, whereas the other is looking into the possible relationship between antibiotic treatment in children and the development of type I diabetes. We hope you are safe and healthy - strength and love to all of you. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode17/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Hi listeners! New month, new episode at The AMR Studio. Spring is around the corner and today we bring you an enthusiastic and very eloquent interview with Dr. John Rex, a former infectious diseases doctor that currently works, as he puts it, in developing new drugs, making development of new drugs possible, or making sure people get paid to develop new drugs. Join us in a deep conversation about antibiotics research & development, the antibiotic market and current new ideas not to let this needed sector die. In the news section, we cover a short commentary looking into the societal value of antibiotics, an investigation about how American and Canadian newspapers present AMR in their pages, and a "sciency" article looking into collateral sensitivity (a.k.a. the opposite of cross-resistance). We hope you enjoy this packed episode! Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode16/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to another month at The AMR Studio. We are happy to bring you something special this time: a chronicle of a very cool event we were at this past December, a hackathon! Press play to learn what a hackathon is, the projects worked on during the weekend, impressions from some of the people attending, and of course, who won the grand prize! Next month we will be back to our regular structure, but meanwhile we hope you enjoy this one. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex5/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to the "new" roaring 20s! Celebrate the new year and decade with us by listening to our latest episode, featuring an interview with Dr. Jasper Littmann, Specialist Director for Strategy and Development at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. In this interview, we learn how an ethicist works when translating knowledge into action within policy making, the challenges in communicating with policy makers, and how the AMR field has changed in the last years. In the news section, we cover two back-to-back publications reviewing the preclinical pipeline and discussing antibiotic development challenges. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode15/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome back to our regular episodes! Join us and Catherine Will, from the University of Sussex, in a conversation about how people understand the messages about AMR and how the different mobilizations, stewardship measures, and campaigns around antimicrobial resistance attend to questions of inequality and social injustice. In our news section, we summarize the recent published work by the Wellcome Trust on reframing and communication of resistance, and do a run-through of the latest release of general reports. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode14/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.