Last Friday, 9th February, I travelled to Nottingham to visit my colleagues, Sonia Gomez, Belen Sanz (ANLIS, Argentina) Helen West, Dov Stekel, Anastasia Kadochnikova (University of Nottingham, UK), Paula Avello (University of Leeds, UK) and Lisa Collins (University of Surrey, UK), to talk about our research on antimicrobial resistance in chicken litter. This was the first visit (and last sadly!) for our Argentine collaborators, Dr Sonia Gomes and her PhD student, Belen Sanz. We discussed our upcoming results, and it was great to celebrate the first output from this UKRI/BBSRC/CONICET funded project, Dr Paula Avello's article in Health and Policy Planning, titled "National action plans on antimicrobial resistance in Latin America: an analysis via a governance framework". Here with co-authors we used qualitative text analysis to build a picture of the national policy plans for antimicrobial action in Latin America. We assessed strengths (e.g. coordination and partecipation), and opportunities for further improvements - for example, incorporating the environment in future iterations of the plans.
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Now the Royal Entomological Society annual conference is over, it's time for some reflection. With two colleagues, Sheena Cotter and Paul Eady, we organised this small annual meeting bringing together enthusiastic entomologists from the all over the world. This was the first hybrid (in person and online) conference run following the pandemic, and so it was exciting as well as daunting, getting the technology right, and hoping that people would want to meet in person. Ento22 run from the 13th to the 16th September 2022 at the University of Lincoln, UK, with several enticing pre- and post- conference activities (women in entomology, mentoring session, rewilding tour, music) and a post-conference workshop organised by the Global Insect Threat-Response Synthesis (GLiTRS). I felt so priviliged to be able to listen to our plenary speakers: Sylvain Pincebourde, on the importance of microclimate for insect responses to climate change, Jessica Ware, who gave a masterclass on how to weave research with creating a diverse space to study insects, and Nalini Puniamoorthy, who talked about all things insect-reproduction. I had a lot of fun. We had huge help from University of Lincoln professional services, and from Luke Tilley, Fran Sconce and Bianca Saccone of the Royal Entomological Society. I knew I would enjoy it, I just had not realised how much I missed meeting people face-to-face, talking science, and networking. It was hard work with three growing boys, juggling childcare, husband away, but I would do it all again (I am not sure Sheena agrees though!). For more action from the conference, search #Ento22 on Twitter. |
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