Tuesday, 30 March 2021
15:00 - 16:30 (EEST) / 19:00 - 20:30 (WIB)
This spring, Resistomap is organizing a series of live webinars to highlight the importance of monitoring antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and emphasize the need to fill the surveillance gap in low- and middle-income countries. The March webinar will focus on antibiotic resistance monitoring projects in Indonesia.
FAO Indonesia
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Resistomap, Finland
FAO Indonesia
Dr. Gunawan Budi Utomo is Senior Technical Advisor for Value Chain and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at FAO Indonesia. He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada. He was team leader of Poultry Market Chain to Control Avian Influenza (2009-2020) and AMR and Antimicrobial Use Taskforce (2015-2020) at FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) in Indonesia.
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Prof. Siti Subandiyah is Professor of Agricultural Biotechnology and Head of Research Center for Biotechnology at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She received her MAgrSc degree from University of Queensland, Australia, and PhD degree from Gifu University, Japan. Her research interests are on diagnosis of plant diseases, management of plant bacterial diseases, molecular plant protection and agricultural biotechnology. Prof. Subandiyah is the coordinator of MAMRA - Monitoring AntiMicrobial Resistance in Agroecosystem. The mission of MAMRA is to develop an AMR monitoring programme using the One Health approach to empirically understand, mitigate and control the spread of AMR from manure to the environment (i.e. soil, crops and river). MAMRA is funded by the Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation.
Resistomap, Finland
Dr. Windi Muziasari has gained years of experience and the know-how to monitor antibiotic resistance from environmental samples such as wastewater, rivers and lakes, soils and manure using a high throughput gene profiling during her PhD and PosDoc at the University of Helsinki. She wants other researchers and healthcare professionals to get easy access to this technology and that's why in 2018 she moved from academia to entrepreneurship by founding Resistomap, which has now served over 50 projects globally. Resistomap is the first company in the world to commercialize antibiotic resistance monitoring service in the environment. Headquartered in Helsinki, Resistomap's mission is to mitigate the spread of antibiotic resistance by providing robust tools for monitoring it. Resistomap combines the molecular genetics method and data science to provide a service for antibiotic resistance monitoring comprehensively and fast.