The AMR Studio

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.