Information

Kemitorvet, building 204, 2800 Kgs Lyngby,
Denmark | Website

Date of designation

8 November 2019

Areas of work

• Development and dissemination of protocols for AMR bacteria identification and characterization
• Development and delivery of training programmes
• External quality assurance programmes for AMR detection
• Microbiological risk assessment
• Public health and genomics in the context of animal and human health
• Genomic epidemiology applied to bacterial genome 

Key activities

• Conducting training, education and development of online e-learning courses on AMR
• Developing and deliver training curricula and facilitate training courses in the area of AMR testing, whole genome sequencing and bioinformatics
• Developing bioinformatics tools for AMR data generation and communication
• Provide support in developing laboratory capacity for AMR surveillance (through AST and metagenomics)
• Conducting research concerning the global surveillance of foodborne AMR and pathogens in food animals
• Developing, administering, and maintaining quality control and external quality assurance programmes for international, national and regional laboratories

Working languages

• Danish
• English
• German
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Swedish
• Thai