KLEB-GAP digital meeting, June 11-12 2020

Online, June 11-12 2020
The KLEB-GAP annual meeting was held digitally in 2020.
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KLEB-GAP annual meeting June 11-12 2020 (online)

June 11, 10:00 to 12:00: Introduction and welcome - Arnfinn

WP1. Kp ecology and AMR in a One Health perspective

1. Brief introduction/overview WP1 and status: Iren, SUH – 10 min

2. Kp in swine and poultry (Håkon, NVI) – 15 + 10 min

3. Kp in mussels (Fredrik, IMR) – 15 + 10 min

4. Risk factors for Kp carriage in healthy humans (Niclas, UNN) – 15 + 10 min

5. Discussion (including plan how to coordinate data sets) – chaired by Iren - 30 min

Break 30 minutes

June 11, 12:30 to 13:30

SAB-member Ed Feil, University of Bath, UK: The significance of the "One Health" concept for managing antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

Break 30 minutes

June 11, 14:00 to 15:45

WP2. Next generation AMR-diagnostics and surveillance

1. Brief introduction/overview of WP: Arnfinn, UiT - 10 min

2. Culture, qPCR and metagenomics in Kp-detection in human fecal samples: Ken, UiT 20 + 5 min

3. Strategy in probe design for Kp-target enrichment: Kathryn, Monash – 10 + 5 min

4. Culture-independent plasmid capture method for studying resistance plasmids in the environment: Nachiket, IMR – 15 + 5 min

5. WPs news from NVI: Håkon – 15 min

6. Discussion 20 min

June 12, 09:00 to 10:30

WP3. Geno- and phenotype associations in AMR and virulence prediction

1. Brief introduction/overview of WP: Ørjan, UNN - 10 min

2. Genotype-phenotype associations virulence: Jose, QUB - 20 + 10 min

3. Genotype-phenotype associations AMR: Ørjan/Dorota, UNN/UiT - 20 + 10 min

4. Discussion 20 min

Break 30 minutes

June 12, 11:00 to 12:00

SAB-member Martha Clokie, University of Leicester, UK: “Choose your cocktail wisely; steps to take phages closer to a clinical product”.

Break 30 minutes

June 12, 12:30 to 14:00

WP4. Phage therapy against MDR-Kp

1. Introduction/overview of WP: Christian, KI – 10 min

2. Characterization of phages: Anni, KI - 20 + 10 min

3. Update on colonization of mice with selected isolates: José/Christian - 20 + 10 min

4. Discussion 20 min

Partner institutions and project partner:

1. UiT – the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway (UiT): Arnfinn

2. Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway (SUH): Iren

3. University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway (UNN): Ørjan and Gunnar

4. Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway (NVI): Marianne and Anne-Margrete

5. Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway (IMR): Bjørn-Tore

6. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (IP): Sylvain

7. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (KI): Christian

8. Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK (QUB): José

9. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Monash): Kathryn

10. ACD Pharma, Oslo, Norway (ACD): Cyril

June 12, 14:15 to 15:30

Project management meeting: Partners + SAB

1. Overall status and progress WP1-4: WP-leaders 20 min

i. Delays due to Covid-19: document per WP

ii. Trond Mohn foundation letter – prolongation of the project 6 months

2. AMR-BRIDGE project: Arnfinn – 10 min

3. NeLS storage platform – presentation: Dorota, UiT – 10 minutes

4. Economy – Arnfinn 10 min

5. Meeting 2021 – actual dates: Arnfinn and Iren

6. Other businesses: WP-specific meetings, bioinformatic-network

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