Events

Professor Paul Millner gave a public lecture in Harehills about antimicrobial resistance and other health issues.

At the National Annual AMR Conference, Declan Kohl (PhD student) presented a 10 minute presentation on his PhD project on rapid, point-of-care diagnostics to the conference audience of students, academics and industry professionals. It encompassed the strive for a test to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections to reduce antibiotic prescriptions. It sparked interest at...

Professor Lars Jeuken gave a public lecture titled “Infection diagnostics and the fight against antimicrobial resistance (drug resistant infections)”.

The workshop was chaired by Professor Mark Wilcox (and Dr Andrew Lewington) and brought together invited clinicians, healthcare professionals, academics, patients and industry partners to explore the unmet clinical needs in diagnosing Sepsis including antimicrobial resistance (and Acute Kidney Injury). By highlighting the current limitations in these areas the workshop explored how in vitro diagnostics...

The MRC AMR Programme has commissioned the Health and Well Being Service at Leeds City Council to deliver workshops to primary schools in high antibiotic prescribing areas in West Yorkshire. By the end of the session children can: 1) Explain key terms in relation to hygiene and infection 2) Explain why hand washing is important...

60 pupils attended for a school science fair to the university, where Declan Kohl PhD student delivered a stall on enzyme structure and activity. This sparked questions and discussion afterwards on action the enzyme used and how they are specific to individual substrates, and the schools reported increased interest in related subject areas.

Over 200 people expected, held in the Parkinson Court, various interactive, hand-on activities and demonstrations from the Astbury disciplines of Chemistry, Physics and Biological Sciences. The AMR team, including Hope Adamson, Jack Goode, Rajan Sharma and Michal Szymonik put on a range of interactive activities illustrating how bacteria become antibiotic resistant.

As part of Leeds Festival of Science 2018, 450 pupils from primary and secondary school (KS2) attended the Discovery Zone during 2 day event. There were a wide range of stalls, including one from the AMR Programme, where pupils discovered interactively how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics with Hope Adamson, Jack Goode & Rajan Sharma.

On Tuesday, 21 November 2017, Prof Lars Jeuken & Dr Jonathan Sandoe, spoke at a well-attended discussion on antimicrobial resistance at the Cafe Scientifique Leeds, Jonathan and Lars gave a short talk on antibiotic resistant infections, how they come about, the difficulties of diagnosing infections and how rapid diagnostics might help to reduce prescriptions of antibiotics. The...

Students raising awareness of the need to treat antibiotics with respect (Courtesy #seriouslyresistant). The University community supports increased awareness of the need for control and proper use of antibiotics. Staff and students are being encouraged to pledge to become Antibiotic Guardians by taking antibiotics as they are prescribed, taking steps to reduce the spread of germs and...