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EDAR7 Workshops
The workshops will be held on May 29th. Please register to a workshop of your interest if you have not already. It is included in the conference registration at no additional cost.
How to register for the workshops?
Registration to EDAR7 is required for attending a workshop. You can attend only one of eleven workshops.
- If you have not registered to the main conference yet, please follow the instructions in the registration page that will guide you to the selection of workshops.
- If you are already registered to the main conference, you will need to modify your registration profile by using the registration ID number in your confirmation email and add your workshop selection.
Note that there is a hard cap on the number of attendees for each workshop and it is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Workshop rooms and access to the buildings:
- Birks Building: Entry on 3520 University Street
- Macdonald Engineering and Macdonald-Harrington: Entry from the main campus
- Workshops will start at 13:45. Please arrive in the room 10 minutes in advance.
Let us know if you wish to be accompanied to the campus. Our volunteers will be happy to help!
UPDATE: Workshop #4 and #11 have merged and will take place in the same room at Macdonal Engineering Building MD 267
# |
Title |
Organizers (Affiliation) |
Building - Room |
Length |
Registration |
1 |
• Prof. Ryo Honda (Kanazawa University, Japan) • Dr. Muhammad Usman Zaheer (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Tailand) |
Birks 004A |
4h15 |
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2 |
Strengthening the Policy Relevance of Wastewater-based Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance |
• Mrs. Sheena Conforti (Eawag, Switzerland) • Prof. Amy Pruden (Virginia Tech, USA) |
Birks 111 |
4h |
|
3 |
Exploring the Factors Influencing Antibiotic Resistance Beyond the Wastewater Pipeline |
• Prof. Célia M. Manaia (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal) |
Macdonald Engineering MD279 |
4h |
|
4 |
Mutual understanding between regulatory needs and science-based risk assessment of environmental AMR Merged with Workshop #11 |
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer (Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety and Technical University of Berlin, Germany) • Dr. Svenja E. Sander (Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Germany) • Dr. Frank Schreiber (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany) • Dr. Birgit Walther (German Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany) |
Macdonald Engineering MD267 |
3h30 |
|
6 |
Gaming AMR: Role-Play Simulation Exploring the Policy Dimensions of Antimicrobial Resistance: CANCELED |
• Mrs. Rebekah Riddle (Virginia Tech, USA) • Prof. Todd Schenk (Virginia Tech, USA) |
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4h |
|
7 |
New detection methods for AMR in managed agriculture and environment |
• Prof. Zhugen Yang (Cranfield University, UK) • Dr. Andrew Singer (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK) • Prof. Xin Zhao (McGill University, Canada) |
Macdonald-Harrington 420 |
4h15 |
|
8 |
• Dr. Jordyn Broadbent (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada) • Dr. Dominic Poulin-Laprade (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,Canada) |
Macdonald Engineering MD280 |
4h15 |
||
9 |
So you have AMR data, now what? Applications for actionable risk assessment and decision-making |
• Prof. Kerry Hamilton (Arizona State University, USA) • Prof. Emily Garner (West Virginia University, USA) • Prof. Nicholas Ashbolt (University of South Australia, Australia) • Dr. Michael Jahne (USEPA, USA) • Dr. Mary Schoen (Soller Environmental, USA) |
Macdonald Engineering MD497 |
5h |
|
10 |
Resistomap - laboratory and data analysis service for environmental AMR monitoring |
Resistomap (Helsinki, Finland) • Dr. Windi Muziasari (CEO) • Mr. William Nurmi (CTO) • Mr. Ajimufti Azhari (CoS) • Mrs. Alma Seppälä (R&D Scientist) |
Hotel Bonaventure - Outremont 5 |
1h45 |
|
11 |
Merged with Workshop #4 |
• Dr. Chantal Morel (World Health Organisation - Quadripartite secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland) • Dr. Edward Topp (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment [INRAE], France) |
Macdonald Engineering MD267 |
4h |