{"id":444,"date":"2020-09-02T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:51:15","slug":"amrflows-antimicrobials-and-resistance-from-manufacturing-flows-to-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/select-projects\/amrflows-antimicrobials-and-resistance-from-manufacturing-flows-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"AMRflows: antimicrobials and resistance from manufacturing flows to people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This project (full title &#8211; <em>AMRflows: antimicrobials and resistance from manufacturing flows to people: joined up experiments, mathematical modelling and risk analysis<\/em>) combines field sampling, mesocosm, and laboratory studies with mathematical modelling to quantify the dynamics of resistant bacteria, plasmid transfer, and antibiotics in rivers impacted by pharmaceutical wastes. This will lead to a quantitative risk analysis and identification of feasible and effective intervention strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study sites are two river networks in South India; the Musi river near Hyderabad and the Adyar river near Chennai. The Musi area is heavily polluted by drug manufacturers; whereas, the Adyar area is our \u2018control\u2019. Both receive treated and untreated sewage. The Musi may be a \u2018perfect storm\u2019 where antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals and metals select for bacteria with resistance under conditions of high concentrations of nutrients and mobile genetic elements from sewage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic staff:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/engineering\/staff\/profile\/davidgraham.html#background\" target=\"_blank\">Prof David Graham<\/a> (School of Engineering) <br><strong>Researcher:<\/strong>  Rebeca Pallar\u00e9s Vega<br><strong>Contact:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:david.graham@newcastle.ac.uk\">david.graham@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><br><strong>Sponsor:<\/strong> Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) <br><strong>Partners:<\/strong> University of Birmingham; Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad; with researchers from The James Hutton Institute in Scotland; IIT, Gandhinagar; and IIT, Madras<br><strong>Start Date:<\/strong> 2020<br><strong>End Date:<\/strong>  2023 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2020\/09\/Chennai-floods.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2020\/09\/Chennai-floods.png 940w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2020\/09\/Chennai-floods-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2020\/09\/Chennai-floods-768x463.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/files\/2020\/09\/Chennai-floods-497x300.png 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption>The Adyar during the Chennai floods in 2015: spreading AMR onto land and into communities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project (full title &#8211; AMRflows: antimicrobials and resistance from manufacturing flows to people: joined up experiments, mathematical modelling and risk analysis) combines field sampling, mesocosm, and laboratory studies with mathematical modelling to quantify the dynamics of resistant bacteria, plasmid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/select-projects\/amrflows-antimicrobials-and-resistance-from-manufacturing-flows-to-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5556,"featured_media":445,"parent":442,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-444","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions\/746"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}