Committees

Conference chair

Joakim Larsson, professor, University of Gothenburg Sweden

Professional meeting organizer

EDAR 2022
MeetX AB
S-412 94, Göteborg, Sweden
E-mail: edar2022@meetx.se
Web: https://en.meetx.se/

Local Organising Committee (Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, University of Gothenburg)

Joakim Larsson
Kristian Kvint
Erik Kristiansson
Carl-Fredrik Flach
Christian Munthe
Elina Lampi
Christina Åhren
Anne Farewell
Per Sunnerhagen

Scientific committee

Joakim Larsson (Sweden, Chair)
Professor
Department of Infectious Disease
Director, Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe
University of Gothenburg

Michael Gillings (Australia)
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University

Edward Topp (Canada)
Professor
London Research and Development Centre
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Gerry Wright (Canada)
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Director, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research
McMaster University

Yongguan Zhu (China)
Professor
Institute of Urban Environment
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Marko Virta (Finland)
Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Helsinki, Finland

Kornelia Smalla (Germany)
Professor and Acting Head
Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics
Julius Kuhn Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig

Tong Zhang (Hong Kong)
Professor
Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory
Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Hong Kong

Celia M. Manaia (Portugal)
Associate professor
Vice-President, Research and Internationalization at the Porto Regional Center
Catholic University of Portugal

Elizabeth M.H. Wellington (UK) 
Professor
School of Life Sciences
University of Warwick

Amy Pruden (USA)
W. Thomas Rice Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Virginia Tech

James M. Tiedje (USA)
University Distinguished Professor
Director, The Center for Microbial Ecology
Michigan State University

Yu Zhang (China)
Professor
Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Frank Aarestrup (Denmark)
Professor
National Food Institute
Research Group for Genomic Epidemiology, DTU

Ramanan Laxminarayan (USA)
Ph.D., M.P.H
Senior research scholar at Princeton University
Affiliate Professor, Global Health, Director and Senior Fellow, The center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, D.C

Heike Schmitt (Netherlands)
Principle Investigator
National Institute for Public Health and
and the Environment

Sabiha Essak (South Africa)
Professor
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Tereas M. Coque (Spain)
Professor
Ramón y Cajal health research institute (IRYCIS)
Madrid

Christian Munthe (Sweden)
Professor
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe
University of Gothenburg

Erik Kristiansson (Sweden)
Professor
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe
University of Gothenburg

Carl-Fredrik Flach (Sweden)
Associate Professor
Department of Infectious Disease
Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe
University of Gothenburg

Andrew Singer (UK)
Principle Scientist
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Contact

Conference secretariat:

CARe
Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine
Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Guldhedsgatan 10A
S-412 94, Göteborg, Sweden
E-mail: care@gu.se

Professional conference organizer:
EDAR 2022
MeetX AB
S-412 94, Göteborg, Sweden
E-mail: edar2022@meetx.se