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On May 22-23, 2023, CAMRIA organized its second lunch-to-lunch seminar.  After last year’s successful event in Bekkjarvik, this year CAMRIA partners, Scientific Advisory Board members and international collaborators gathered in Solstrand. The focus of the event was twofold – first, we looked into the ongoing projects funded by the centre, their progress and perspectives for Read More

Professor Iain Johnston (Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen) and the leader of CAMRIA-funded HyperEvol project has been awarded the Meltzer Prize for young researchers 2023. Iain was nominated for the award to honor his work which combines mathematical, statistical and experimental approaches to learn more about the biological world. This approach has provided new Read More

United Nations Environment Programme has recently issued a report on Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening environmental action in the One Health response to antimicrobial resistance. The focus of the report is on prevention as the core of the action against developing resistance, highlighting the relevance of the environment. The authors indicate several pollution sources that have Read More

New position connected to CAMRIA is available. If you are interested in starting the PhD program and becoming a part of the project “Risk communication and -perception of AMR in the public and among healthcare workers – knowledge needed to develop new policies and interventions”, you can see the job announcement (in Norwegian). The position Read More

CAMRIA in collaboration with the Norwegian National Advisory Centre for Antibiotic Treatment in Specialist Health Service (KAS) arranged a hybrid seminar on Aspects of antibiotic treatment in children. The seminar was chaired by Per Espen Akselsen and had about 35 participants. Dr. Sanjay Patel from Southampton Children’s Hospital, UK, shared his experience and explained how Read More

As announced on our website In October, CAMRIA was engaged in organizing a panel discussion around the documentary “The Invisible Extinction”, showed at Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) 2023: https://camria.w.uib.no/2022/10/13/the-invisible-extintion-film-screening-and-following-panel-dicussion-at-biff/ Now the video recording from the event (in Norwegian) is available online: Panelsamtale BIFF 2022: The Invisible Extinction on Vimeo Watch it to learn more Read More

We have been awarded a grant from the call “Societal Security and Antimicrobial Resistance” from NordForsk (Nordic Societal Security Programme | NordForsk). The title of the project is: “Tracking of Antimicrobial Resistant Genes in Environmental reservoirs in the Nordic Countries” with the acronym TARGEt. Randi J Bertelsen is PI for the project and in collaboration Read More

Bergen International Film Festival 2022 is taking place on 19-27 October this year. One of the films that will be presented during the festival is “The invisible extinction” – a documentary looking into a potential future major health crisis connected to the extinction of bacterial diversity. Historically and biologically, healthy bacteria have been a foundation Read More

CAMRIA, represented by Nina Langeland (CAMRIA’s leader, University of Bergen), Iren Høyland (Stavanger University Hospital) and Stig Harthug (Haukeland University Hospital) joined the meeting of Nordic Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) centres organized by the Uppsala Antibiotic Center on 1-2 September 2022. In total, 7 centres participated in the meeting: Uppsala Antibiotic Centre (Sweden), Umeå Centre for Read More

For the first time, CAMRIA leadership, researchers engaged in the projects financed by the centre, along with invited guests gathered during a lunch-to-lunch working seminar in Bekkjarvik (August 23-24, 2022). The main objective of this event was twofold – to enable the participants, particularly those representing different fields, to get to know each other better, Read More