Länkstig

InSiDER - Invasion Success Determinants in bacteria and the Environmental Resistome

Research project
Pågående forskning
Projektets storlek
3,85 MSEK
Projekttid
2017 - 2020
Projektägare
The project is coordinated by Johan Bengtsson-Palme (Biomedicine) and involves Prof. Joakim Larsson (Biomedicine) and Prof. Jo Handelsman (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA).

Finansiär
Swedish Research Council FORMAS, SciLifeLab Swedish Biodiversity Program

Kort beskrivning

Environmental bacteria host a wide diversity of genes that can confer resistance to antibiotics, which can constitute a source of resistance to human pathogens. This project uses high-throughput sequencing techniques to identify genes improving colonization and invasion ability – or resistance to invasion – in microbial communities under exposure to sub-lethal antibiotics concentrations.